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North America nor Asia, but by those brown sea- 

 rovers from the southwest. The nearest land to 

 the Hawaiian islands is over 2,000 miles awav. 

 How the first human inhabitants of those remote 

 dots ever found their way over the vast wave- 

 wastes they had to traverse before getting there 

 no one will ever know. But probably they were 

 refugees, carried out to sea by a storm, and, los- 

 ing their way on the trackless plains, wandered 

 on and on, until they happened to stumble upon 

 those hitherto unknown volcano-tops. We know 

 such things can happen, for a junl?: with survivors 

 on board drifted ashore from the west at the 

 Hawaiian islands in December, 1832. 



8. The First Men. ' 



Original men, that is, the first men who ever 

 existed, probably lived in small, loose bands, each 

 band being composed of from 20 to 50 or more in- 

 dividuals. These bands, in their organization and 

 modes of life, were probably very much like the 

 bands of other animals that are met with today 

 in the forests and on the prairies. They were 

 without fixed places of abode. They subsisted on 

 the fruits, nuts, roots, young shoots, and birds' 

 eggs which they came upon during their wander- 

 ings thru the forest. These bands of early men 

 must have had only the bare beginnings of law 

 and government. Each band was led by an old 

 male as chief, who had won his position as leader 

 by his exceptional strength and intelligence. 



