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departed with his son and a servant. The Hawaiians 

 still call the mountains back of Koolau, near Honolulu, 

 after the name of the three, and when the missionaries 

 gave them the Jewish sacred books, were delighted to 

 point out that long before Christ came to earth they had 

 believed as above, and that Abraham was the tenth from 

 Noah, that Abraham practised circumcision, and was 

 father of Isaac and the illegitimate Ishmael, and that 

 their descendant of Nuu, as Abraham, became the father 

 of twelve children, and the founder of the Polynesian 

 race, as Abraham had of the Jews. 



One might detect some relation to the Hebraic scrip- 

 tures in the legends of the Maoris of New Zealand and 

 Tonga that the older son of the first man killed his 

 brother, and that in Fiji one still is shown the site where 

 a vast tower was built because the Fijians wanted to 

 peer into the moon to discover if it was inhabited. A 

 lofty mound was erected, and the building of timber 

 upon it. It was already in the sky when the fastenings 

 broke, and the workmen were precipitated over every 

 part of Fiji. 



The sun stood still for Hiaka when she attempted to 

 recover the body of Lohiau, her sister Pele's lover. 

 There was not daylight enough to climb the mountain 

 Kalalau and bring down the body from a cave, so she 

 prayed, and the sun set much later than usual. Aukele- 

 nui-a Iku, the next to the youngest of twelve children, 

 was hated by his brothers because he was his father's 

 favorite, and they threw him into a pit to die. His next 

 eldest brother rescued him, and he became a traveler, 

 and found the water of life, with which he restored his 

 brother who had been drowned years before. The 



