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people as Karaipahoa. All who were thought to 
have died by poison, were said to have been slain 
by him. 
Before I left the party, I could not help stating 
to them the striking identity between some of 
their traditions and those of the Tahitians, and 
expressed my conviction that both nations had the 
same origin. They said, tradition informed them 
that their progenitors were brought into existence 
on the islands which they now inhabit; that they 
knew nothing of the origin of the people of the 
Georgian and Society Islands, yet Tahiti, the name 
of the largest of the Georgian Islands, was found 
in many of their ancient songs, though not now 
applied exclusively to that island. With the 
people of Borabora, (the name they gave to the 
Society Islands,) they said they had no acquaint¬ 
ance before they were visited by Captain Cook, 
but that, since that time, by means of ships passing 
from one group of islands to the other, several 
presents and messages of friendship had been in¬ 
terchanged between Tamehameha and Pomare I.; 
and that, in order to cement their friendship more 
firmly, each had agreed to give one of his daugh¬ 
ters in marriage to the son of the other. In con¬ 
sequence of this amicable arrangement, a daughter 
of Pomare was expected from Tahiti, to be the 
wife of Rihoriho, late king of Hawaii; and Ke- 
kauruohe, one of the daughters of Tamehameha, 
was selected by her father to be the bride of 
Pomare, the late king of Tahiti. Wanting a con¬ 
veyance from Hawaii to Tahiti, Tamehameha was 
unable to send Kekauruohe; which, together w T ith 
the death of Pomare before he had any oppor¬ 
tunity of sending one of his relatives to Hawaii, 
