134 ETHNOGRAPHY. 



they added on as many names as they could recollect of the genealogy 

 of the Marquesan kings, mixed with Tahitian deities and personified 

 qualities. Thus the first name is, as above stated, the Nukuhivan 

 Watea ; the fourth is Hinanalo, a word which means desire in all the 

 dialects except the Hawaiian; the tenth is Manatu, which means 

 memory in the Samoan and Tongari languages ; the eleventh is 

 Tahito, or ancient ; the twelfth and thirteenth are Luanuu and Tii, 

 two of the principal deities of Tahiti, belonging to the class which 

 they term hanau-po, " born of night." Moreover, the wives of the 

 first five kings are said not to have been different persons, " but only 

 different names of Papa, as her soul inhabited sundry bodies by 

 transmigration," which sufficiently shows that this part of the gene- 

 alogy was looked upon as merely mythological. 



If this opinion be thought correct, it will be necessary to deduct 

 twenty-two generations from the list (one of the twenty-three kings 

 having been the brother of the preceding,) which will leave for the 

 whole number forty-five. Multiplying this by thirty, we have thir- 

 teen hundred and fifty years from the commencement of the Hawaiian 

 records (and perhaps from the settlement of the country, though that 

 is uncertain), to the accession of Tamehameha, or, reckoning to the 

 present date, about fourteen centuries. 



With the aid derived from Mr. Crook's manuscripts we are enabled 

 to determine what evidence is afforded by the language of the two 

 groups that the Hawaiians are of Marquesan origin. The most 

 striking similarity is that of the numerals, which will be elsewhere 

 displayed. In its alphabet, the Tahuatan idiom agrees in most points 

 with the Hawaiian, and especially in using the n instead of the 

 regular Polynesian y (or ng), which the Tahitian omits altogether. 

 Thus we have 



POLYNESIAN. TAHITIAN. TAHUATAN. HAWAIIAN. 



to salute. 



lips, beak of a bird. 



mountain. 



name. 



coral. 



cheek. 



net. 



In the original draft of his grammar, Mr. Crook gave two forms of 

 the indefinite and definite articles, a and ta, e and te. The first two 

 are used before nouns commencing with a consonant, or the vowels 



