POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
63 
ing all mankind excepting two individuals^ who escaped 
in a naked vessel, (a vessel without sails,) by whom the 
island of Britain was re-peopled. The safety which the 
progenitors of the Peruvian race are said to have found 
in caves, or the summits of the mountains, when the 
waters overflowed the land, bears a resemblance to the 
Hawaiian, and that of the Mexican, in which Coxcox, 
or Tezpi and his wife, were preserved in a bark, corre¬ 
sponds with the Tahitian tradition. Other points of 
resemblance between the Polynesian account, and the 
memorial of the deluge preserved among the ancient 
nations, might be cited; but these are sufficient to shew 
the agreement in the testimony to the same event, pre¬ 
served by the most distant tribes of the human family. 
5 
