Hazvaiian Origin. 265 



Aonuu is called in the mele : 



He henua hiwaoa mei Aheetai 

 He henua hiwahiwa Aomai. 



Faaina ruled in Aonuu, and after him Anu-o-Aatuna. Afterwards the chief Atea 

 killed Uniai and civil wars drove him and many other Take to seek new homes in other 

 lands. 



Papanui is called a high table land, near the sea, %'ipua iiic fc fai. Among the 

 fugitives from Aonuu was a chief Tiki-Matohe and his wife Hina. They left with 

 their followers and outfit of pigs, fowl and fruits in a double canoe, I'oka hupu, and 

 discovered the land of Papanui. The mele of Tani's landing on Papanui states that 

 the host Atea would, in honor of Tani, bring pigs from Ao-tumi, turtle from Ono- 

 tapu and fowls from below li hawa and Nuu-teea. 



Take-hee is called: "Tu liivaoa cckc i fe Jiec." 



Anitai or Anitake. Of this it is said: "./ kau papaiia ia tai naciiac." 



Hawaii is called: "Tai inainao itfa oa tu tc li." In Hawaii the Inipc, kohanui, 

 iiiio and tciiianit trees were growing. Hawaii appears to have been subject to tremen- 

 dous hurricanes, followed by famines. The following headlands or capes are mentioned 

 in Hawaii: Fiti-tona-tapu, Pua, Ao, Ao-ena and Ao-oma. The inio tree was said to 

 make good paddles. Two mountains are mentioned in Hawaii; one in the mele of Ma- 

 tahuu of Hawaii, called Mouna-Tika-oe; the other in the mele of Tui)aa, called Mauna-oa. 

 The latter is said to have been raging (;'/) on top and served as a landmark for Tupaa 

 when he left Plawaii with his family and followers. 



Tuuma is said to have been near to Hawaii: "'Tc Timiiia i Hawaii fata ae." 



Meaai: All that is said of this island is: "AIoii ac tc tiipa tata ckc iia tc tai." 



Matahou is the last land mentionad in this mele, and no other description gi\en 

 of it, than that it stood in the sea. "tu i tc tai." 



Throughout these migrations the Take are represented as having come from 

 below {inai iao), when coming from Aheetake, and going up {iika) to Matahou. 



Throughout the Polynesian groups, within the tropics, when a land is spoken 

 of as iao Halo, iraro of the speaker's place, it invariably means to the leeward, before 

 the prevailing trade wind. This wind being from northeast or southeast, these mi- 

 grations pursued a course from west to east, which suggests a descent from Asia or 

 the Asiatic Archipelago. 



The word take, as expressing a nation or a race, is probably an archaism of the 

 Polynesian language ; its condensed and modern form being tai. as I find the latter form 

 used interchangeably with the former in some of the meles, as Aai-tai for Ani-take, 

 Ahee-tai for Ahee-take. The word tai occurs with the same meaning in the Tonga 

 Islands, where this expression is common — Kai Fiti. Viti people: Kai Tonga, Tonga 

 people; in Hawaiian, kakai. a family. The older word, take, is found, however, in sev- 

 eral places: "Ai-tu-take," an island of the Hervey group, and "Oni-take," a place on said 

 island; 'A'aetake," a bay in Uahuka, one of the Marquesas Islands. 



In the mele of Tc iiwhoina I'apaiuii, Tiki is called the first man: "O Tiki to 

 inatoH Motita, oia tc enatc imia" : This is Tiki Matoho and his wife Hina, or Tiki Ma- 

 toho is a namesake of the first Tiki. 



