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family of Paao, who came with Pili from Tahiti; and Kaekae, Maliii and Malela, who 

 were brought by Paumakua from abroad and are said to have l^een white people and ka- 

 hunas. The "Aha Kapu o na 'lii" is not of older date than the time of Paumakua — the 

 "Kaiui moe o na "Hi" is of much later origin. 



Taking then thirty years as the measure of a generation, and the Xanaulu straight 

 line, as the least inflated and most reliable, we have twenty-six generations from the time 

 of Maweke to the jiresent time, which places Maweke at the commencement of the 

 twelfth century, say A. D. 1 100. And during that century those great migrations to and 

 fro with their resultant influx of new men and new ideas occurred. It was an era of in- 

 tense restlessness and great activity and daring. Up to this time Hawaiian history is 

 merely a register of names with only here and there a passing allusion to some e\'ent, 

 barely sufficient to give a locus staiuii to some prominent name, such as the building and 

 inauguration of Kukaniloko as a royal birth-place by Nanakaoko and his wife Kahihioka- 

 lani. This howe\'er must have ha])pened close upon the twelfth century, for their son and 

 grandson — Kapawa and Heleipawa — were no doubt contemporaries with Maweke or with 

 Pili-Kaaiea. After the time of IMaweke of the Xanaulu line, and after Paumakua of the 

 Ulu line, however, Hawaiian history commences to flow with a fuller tide, and most of 

 the principal names on either line have some account or mele connected with them ; the 

 traditions and songs become more numerous and circumstantial in their details, and, by 

 crossing" or confirming each other, enable the critical student to arrive at a considerable 

 degree of precision in eliminating facts from myths and placing names and events in a 

 proper succession and in an approximately correct time. 



What the gradually growing or abruptly determining causes of this national rest- 

 lessness of these series of migrations may have been, either here or in central and western 

 Polynesia — perhaps also to and from the North American coasts — Hawaiian traditions 

 and meles throw no light upon, so far as I have been able to ascertain ; and with the his- 

 tory and traditions of those other countries I am not sufficiently ac(|uainted to offer an 

 ade(|uate or precise answer. The only corresponding movement in Central and South- 

 ern Polynesia that I can now refer to is — I believe, but have not the authority by me — the 

 settlement of New Zealand by its present Polynesian race. Their traditions and genealo- 

 gies bring that event the fifteenth century of our era. and they came from Savaii, one of 

 the Navigator's Islands. Our own traditions refer the advent here of Paao and Pili from 

 Wawau and Upolo, to an earlier period. Both were probably cases, of expulsion caused 

 by civil wars. 



It is a somewhat remarkable circumstance that the first appearance of white men in 

 this Archipelago refers to this same period of migrations. The traditions state that in 

 the time of Auanini, the grandson of Puuaimua, and a chief living at Kapalawai in Kai- 

 lua, Oahu, and while Mua-o-Kalani and her husband Kaomealani were chiefs at Kaopu- 

 lolia in Kaneohe, Oahu, a vessel arrived off Mokapu; that the name of the vessel was 

 "Ulupana;" the name of the captain was Molo-Lana, and of his wife, Malaea; that the 

 names of the people on board were Olomana. Aniani and Holokaniakani ; that these how- 

 ever were not their proper names, but names given them by those chiefs on whose terri- 

 tories they landed ; the tradition however does not say whether these people went away 

 again or whether they remained and settled in the country. 



