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Husband. Wife. : Child. 
O Haloa. Hinamanouluae. O Waia. 
O Waia. Huhune. O Hinanalo. 
O Hinanalo. Haunuu. O Nanatehili, &c. 
‘‘ But in the native recitation, as we have heard it, the words tane 
husband, wahine wife, and tamaiti child, are introduced after each name 
in the respective columns, thus— 
O Haloa te tane, | O Hinamanouluae ta wahine, O Waia te tamaiti. 
O Waia te tane, O Hubune ta wahine, O Hinanalo te tamaiti, &c. 
This, it will be seen, makes of it a species of verse, with, in fact, a 
greater approach to rhythm than most of the native poems. cecord- 
ingly the recitation is made in a kind of chant, to a regular tune, and 
any person who can retain in his memory a song of a hundred lines 
can have no difficulty in remembering this genealogy.” 
“Tt is to be observed that this is not, properly speaking, a list of 
kings, but merely of generations. In most cases, which frequently 
happened when two or more brothers ‘succeeded one another on the 
throne, their names are given in the column of children. ‘Thus Liloa, 
the eleventh in a direct line before Taméhaméha, had two sons, Hatau 
and Umi, of whom the first succeeded him, but was deposed for his 
tyranny, and the kingdom transferred to Umi. Both of these names 
with those of their respective mothers are given in the genealogy, but 
the former only among the children.” ‘* This explanation is necessary 
because the number of years to be allowed to a generation will be at 
least double that which we should assign toa reign.” “ Allowing thirty 
years to a generation, and supposing the list to be a correct one, we 
should have for the time that has elapsed since the settlement of the 
Sandwich Islands, about two thousand years. 
_ But Mr. Hale goes on to state— 
* Though there is no doubt of the ability of the natives to preserve 
a genealogy of this length, several circumstances incline us to ques- 
tion its entire correctness, and to doubt whether the first 23 names 
be not entirely supposititious. In the first place, the name of the king 
‘at the head of the list, O Watea, is precisely the same in pro- 
nunciation, with the Oataia of the Marquesans, (the orthography only 
being different.) The name of his wife is Papa, of whom it is said, 
‘she was the mother of all the islands.’ This is the same name and 
the same tradition that the Tahitians apply to the wife of their great 
deity, Taaroa. It is further related by the Hawaiians that Watea and 
Papa had a deformed child, whom they buried, and from it sprang the 
taro-plant; the stalk of this plant was called haloa, and this name was 
