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found upon all those groups in slightly different versions It 



is just to conclude, therefore, that the Maui family and legends were not 

 only not indigenous to Hawaiian soil or contemporary with any chiefs of 

 the " ISTanaula " line, but it is very questionable whether their origin does 

 not date back to the PRE-Pacific period of the Polynesian race." 



This view of Fornander's receives a striking accession of evidence 

 from the use of these seemingly identical terms in British Columbia. I 

 have shown that the term stands for God among the Haidas. It is also 

 seen in the compound name of one of their ancient deities, ^^ Ilet-gica- 

 lana," and from information supplied me b}^ the Rev. H. H. Gowen, who 

 was a missionary for some years among the Hawaiians, this term is used 

 by the Polynesians in the same sense. ' Everyone,' he writes me, " of 

 the Kamehameha line had the name Kalani forming part of his or her 

 full designation. It appears to have been equivalent to " exalted," 

 " heavenly," "^divine.'" ' Again, we find a remarkable resemblance to this 

 term Kalana or Kalani in the name of the great chief who led the Yvich- 

 chi across the Indus and conquered India about 20 B.C.. whose name, as 

 given by the Chinese historians, is " Karranos," or " Kalanos." 



These facts will receive an accession of interest when I state that my 

 studies of the languages of the natives of this province have resulted in 

 yielding evidence of intercourse or relationship of some kind between 

 the Kwakiutl-Nootka and Salish stocks and the Malay-Polynesians, 

 between the Haida-Tlingit and the Japo-Corean, and between the Dené, 

 or Athapascan, and the Chinese and cognate races. Of the Dené tongue 

 it is no exaggeration to say that 50 per cent of its radicals are pure archaic 

 Chinese. I append a short comparative vocabulary of these : 



English. 

 Water 

 Face 

 Feet 

 Mouth 

 Skin 



Mountain 

 Stone 

 Grass 

 Corpse 

 Sky 

 Star 

 Snow 

 Bird 

 A fly 

 Wood 

 Tree 

 Small 

 Wet 

 Arrow 



