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different character, which compel us to believe in a kinship between 

 the Hawaiians and the other Polynesians. In the ancient population 

 of Maiden and the vanished one of Fanning, we find the unmistakable 

 bridge between the Society and the Sandwich islands. 1 There has 

 always been a conviction that an influence from China, and especially 

 from Japan, has asserted itself here. Cases of craft from eastern Asia 

 being driven to Hawaii remove any doubt of this fact. Besides, these 

 cases are especially calculated to prove to us how closely the population 

 of Polynesia is united to that of Asia. 



According to the statements of the Hawaiians themselves, such occur- 

 rences are not infrequent. Jarves relates that in December, 1832, a 

 Japanese junk was driven ashore at Oahu, near the harbor of Waialea. 

 Nine of its occupants were still alive, after having been tossed to and 

 fro eleven months upon the sea. 2 The remark made by Hawaiians 

 upon the arrival of these people is worthy of consideration. They 

 said: "It is plain now we come from Asia," when they saw that the 

 strangers showed a strong resemblance to themselves. In the time of 

 Opili also, white men landed on the southwestern coast of Hawaii, and 

 a reliable statement informs us that a short time after the departure of 

 these strangers another band of white men were also stranded on the 

 western side of Hawaii. The boat had neither mast nor sail and was 

 painted. The people were dressed in yellow and white, and one wore 

 a hat adorned with plumes. They long exerted an influence in Hawaii. 

 Later, a boat is said to have arrived at the same place, and about the 

 year 1620 a second one came to the southern side of the bay just men- 

 tioned, in Palekai. The ship was wrecked and only the captain and 

 one white woman reached the land. Two vessels are also said to have 

 once been cast upon the northeastern shore, but no one gained the 

 beach. Wilkes states that a whaler received on board five Japanese 

 and took them to the Sandwich Islands. There is a mythical story 

 that, under the government of King Kamaloohua, in Maui, a Hawaiian 

 vessel brought in four strangers, whose complexion was only moderately 

 dark, and who were probably the crew of a wrecked Japanese boat. 

 With the frequency of such cases, it can not surprise us that instances 

 of compulsory voyages have been recorded which extend over the entire 



Islanders; both cultivated — the former according to tradition — the sweet potato, 

 which did not exist in the Society Islands. (Shortland : Traditions and Superstitions 

 of the New Zealanders, p. 34.) Williams found in New Zealand a dog which lived in 

 a wild state in Maurua (Samoa). He therefore seeks Sawaii there, and not in Hawaii, 

 (Hood: Cruise of H. M. S. Fawn, p. 148.) Max Buchner lays stress upon a direct 

 connection between the Hawaiians and New Zealanders. (Mitheil. d. Geogr. Ges. 

 Hamburg, 1876-77.) 



: Zeitschr. d. Ges. f. Erdk., Berlin, 1868, page 116. 



^History of the Hawaiians, page 29; North. Pacific Sailing Directory, page 1209: 

 United States Exploring Expedition, V, page 260, and many others. (See Waitz, V, 

 p. 20.; [The reader should consult a pamphlet entitled The Long Voyages of the 

 Hawaiians, by N, B. Emerson, Honolulu. — Ed.] 



