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and Marquesas groups, after a longer or shorter stoppage in each or l)otli, I think 

 can be shown from philological grovinds and the gradual transformation of the Hawaiian 

 dialect, conforming more to those of the two latter than to that of the former. 



I am thus led back to the proposition which I have already enunciated, that, 

 whichever was the branch of the great Polynesian family, that in ages long past first 

 settled upon these islands and here remained and increased, yet about twenty-eight 

 generations ago, and for several generations succeeding, there arrived here an influx 

 of new-comers from the same Polynesian family, who through their superior intellectual 

 and physical prowess obtained the supremacy, — politically, morally and socially, — 

 brought with them their genealogies, their religion, and their customs ; and with whom, 

 and from whom only, Hawaiian history can be traced downward through its heroic, 

 medieval and modern pagan development. It will be observed by the different pedigrees 

 that all the chief-families, which connect with the Xanaulu line, do so immediately 

 through someone of the children or grandchildren of Maweke, who is either the twenty- 

 fourth, twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth ancestor of these families, as the case may be. 

 WHiereas, on the other hand, no family that connects with the Ulu-Puna line, does so 

 above Laamaikahiki's children who stand seventh from Paumakua, thus making him the 

 twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth ancestor; and several families, connecting with bolh lines, 

 make both Maweke and Paumakua either twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth in the line. With 

 the Ulu-Hema-Hanalaa-nui line, however, no family that I am aware of connects as one 

 of the children of Kanijjahu, who stands sixth from Pili-Kaaiea, which makes the latter 

 the twenty-fourth ancestor. Kanipahu's son Kalahumoku is sixth from Maweke through 

 his mother Hualani. Kanipahu's son Kalapana is also sixth ( ?) from Pili, and I con- 

 sequently infer that Pili and Maweke were contemporaries. 



Pill's arrival from Tahiti — some traditions specify the island of W'awau — is 

 one of the most noted events of this period. Of the arrivals of Maweke and Paumakua, 

 or their immediate ancestors, the traditions are silent, but their immediate descendants 

 were famous for their voyages to and from Tahiti. The traditions are conflicting" in 

 regard to Maweke's grandchildren, from Mulielealii, some representing them as born in 

 this country and i>roperly belonging here, while others represent them as settlers arriv- 

 ing from Tahiti. However that may be, thc\- named numerous ])laces, mountains, rivers 

 and headlands either after persons accompanying them, or after similar places in the 

 land from which they came. Yet strange to say, although the island of Hawaii was 

 evidently so called after the Samoan "Hawaiki" or Tongan "Hapai" and that island was 

 known to the Tongans, New Zealanders, Tahitians and Marquesans, yet none of the 

 Hawaiian legends, meles or genealogies, that I have seen, refer to it by that name, 

 though Upolo, Wawau, and probably other islands of that and neighboring groups, are 

 referred to by their special names. 



On the Ulu line, previous to Puna-i-niua and Hema, occur the names of Kapawa 

 and of his parents Xanakaoko and Kahihiokalani, which stand too conspicuously con- 

 nected with the traditions of ])urelv Ilawaiian origin and with that famous birtli-])lace 

 of Hawaiian chiefs, Kukaniloko, to doubt that they belonged and lived on llawaii-nei, 

 or to include them among those prehistoric names which figure on the genealogies pre- 

 vious to the Tahitian settlements, tempore Maweke, Paumakua and Pili. In a frag- 



