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of Kapakapaua-a-Kane, and took with him his ^^randchild Ku-Nui-Akea in order to teacli 

 him navigation, etc. When they had stayed there long enough they returned and Ku- 

 Nui-Akea brought with him "he man haa chia" (two stewards) one called Lehua and 

 the other Nihoa, and they were settled on the two islands which bear their names, as 

 koiioliiki (land stewards) and put under the charge of Kauai, the youngest son of Ha- 

 waii Loa. 



When Hawaii Loa returned from the conference with his brother Ki and his 

 descendants, his wife Hualalai bore him a son who was called Hamakua, and who 

 probably w^as a bad boy (kciki inoino). for so his name would indicate. Ten years 

 after this (kc An puni ) Hualalai died and was buried on the mountain of Hawaii that 

 has been called after her name ever since. 



After Hawaii Loa was dead and gone, in the time of Ku Nui Akea, came Tahiti- 

 nui from Tahiti and landed at Ka-lae-i-Kahiki (the southwest jxiint of Kahoolawe, a 

 cape often made by people coming from or going to Tahiti.) Tahiti-nui was a moopuna 

 of Ki, Hawaii Loa's brother, and he settled on East Maui and died there. 



The descendants of Hawaii Loa and also of Ki (which are one, for they were 

 l)rothers ) peopled nearly all the Polynesian islands. From Ki came the Tahiti, Bora- 

 bora, Huahine, Tahaa, Raiatea and Moorea [people]. 



From Kanaloa were peopled Nukuhiwa, Uapou, Tahuata, Hiwaoa and those other 

 islands. Kanaloa married a woman from the man-eating people, Taeohae, from whom 

 spring those cannibals who live on Nuuhiwa, Fiji, Tarapara, Paumotu, and the islands 

 in western Polynesia — so is it reported in the Haw^aiian legends and jjrayers — but the 

 Hawaiian islands and the Tahiti islands (properly speaking) did never addict them- 

 selves to cannibalism. 



The island of Maui was called after Hawaii Loa's first born son. 



The island of Oahu was called after Hawaii Loa's daughter, and her foster par- 

 ent was Lua, and hence the name Oahu-a-Lua. 



Kauai was called after Hawaii Loa's younger son; his wife's name was Waialeale, 

 and they lived on Kauai, and the mountain was called after her, because there she was 

 buried. 



And thus other islands and districts were called after the first settlers. 



In this first age, from Hawaii Loa to Wakea, the royal authority and prerogatives 

 were not very well defined. The chiefs were regarded more in the light of parents and 

 patrons (liakii). than as iiioi and alii-kapit, although they enjoyed all the honor and 

 precedence due to their rank. 



This state of things was considerably altered by Wakea, his ])riest and succes- 

 sors, yet even so late as the time of Kanipahu, who refused the go\'ernment, it is evident 

 that the royal authority was not well settled in the olden times (aolc lie a no nui iia 

 'Hi i ka zi.'a kaliiko loa 'ku). 



