248 Pomander Collection of Hawaiian Polk-lorc. 



The next account of white people arriving- here is found in the tradition and mele 

 of Paumakua, grandson of Auanini aforesaid, and an Oahu chief, who is said to have 

 visited numerous foreign lands ("Kaapuni ia Kahiki"), and who brought back with liim 

 two white men, Auakahinu and Auakaaiea, who afterwards were called Kaekae and Maliu 

 and were said to have been kahunas (priests) . Paumakua also brought back with him an- 

 other stranger called Alalela who was a kaula (prophet), but as to whether this latter was 

 also a white man the tradition is not so explicit. The two former however are described 

 in the tradition as "Ka haole nui, maka alohilohi, ke aholehole maka aa, ka puaa keokeo 

 nui maka ulaula." These, it would appear, remained and settled in the country, as in 

 later times we find several j^riestly families claiming and proving their descent from the 

 two former. 



I have taken the above notices of the first arrivals of white foreigners in this 

 country from S. M. Kamakau's summary of the traditions and meles referring to that 

 subject. To what branches of the Caucasian race, if to that race at all, these "white 

 people — with bright eyes and white cheeks," belonged, who in the twelfth century were 

 found on the borders or among the islands of the Pacific, may be a rare question for 

 archaeologists and ethnologists to settle. That they were looked upon by the natives here 

 as people of another and a lighter colored race than their own is evident. Whether they 

 were Japanese or some other Mongol variety, extended along the western shores of the 

 Pacific, or Toltecs, from the eastern rim of the Pacific and the Mexican coast, conquered 

 and expelled by the Aztecs towards the close of the twelfth century, — the fact however 

 stands forth in archaic simplicity, and becomes of historical importance, that, during 

 this period — genealogically computed to have fallen within the twelfth century — the 

 Hawaiians received large infusions not only of Polynesian blood, from the island to the 

 south and southwest, but also of alien races, from one or both continents bordering on 

 the Pacific, and leaving their traces in the physique as well as in the customs and worship 

 of the people.* 



This period of great migrations, of national activity and restlessness and of 

 grand enterprises, having passed, comparative cjuiet seems to have succeeded for several 

 generations ; and the meles and legends become silent upon the subject of foreign voyages 

 or foreign arrivals until the time of Kakaalaneo, King of Maui and brother to the great- 

 grandfather of Piilani — about fourteen generations from the present — at the close of 

 the fifteenth or the commencement of the sixteenth century. The traditions as written 

 down by S. M. Kamakau runs thus: "In the time of Kakaalaneo several foreigners 

 (haole) arrived at Waihee in Maui, two of whom only were or became remarkable, viz: 

 Kukanaloa and Pele, who was Peleie, and the name of the vessel was Konaliloha. They 

 landed at Kiwe in the night and when discovered in the morning by the natives, they 

 were taken to the village and fed and brought to the king and the chiefs who treated 

 them kindly and made friends of them (hoopunalielc j and admitted them to all the 

 privileges of the kapu. They settled in the cotmtry, married some of the chief-women 

 and became progenitors of both chiefs and commoners, and some of their descendants 



"About 1 159 A. D., a grand migratory wave was set in lished themselves at Celebes, others went in other dircc- 



niolion from Java and Smnatra. owing to internal con- tions. 



vulsicjns. Some of the princes migrated to and estab- 



