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as common ancestors. For instance, on her father's side, H. R. H. Kinau (the present 

 King's mother) was sixty-eighth from Wakea, counting by the commonly received Hana- 

 laa-nui hne ; and on her mother's side she was seventy from Wakea, counting by the Hana- 

 laa-iki hne. r)Ut In- the Nanauhi straight line, connecting at Kalanikauleleaiwi I, Kinau 

 was only fifty-third from Wakea, and even by the Ulu-Puna line and several of its 

 branches she was only fifty-seventh from Wakea. The difference of fifteen and seven- 

 teen generations between the Hanalaa lines and the Nanaulu straight line, and even the 

 difiference of eleven and thirteen between the Hana and Puna lines, is too great to be ac- 

 counted for in a natural way, such as the earlier marriages in one line than in another. I 

 am therefore forced to conclude that this excess of names on the Hanalaa-Hema lines was 

 made up of contemporaries or collaterals and engrafted in aftertimes on the original 

 lines. From the present time up to Maweke, Paumakua, and Pili, who stand respectively 

 twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh from Kamehameha I and his contempo- 

 raries the genealogical lines cross each other by intermarriages so often, and traditional 

 notices of contemporary chiefs are so frequent, that there is comparatively little difficulty in 

 verifying any given name or finding its proper place. Here then, ])roperly speaking, 

 Hawaiian history commences, and I will now endeavor to show the most prominent 

 names on the different lines, their connection and their exploits. 



