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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
visited the South Seas, but so variously, that it appears im¬ 
possible they should have meant to commemorate the same 
individuals, unless, indeed, the change of name, which we 
know was practised by the last king, was a general custom. 
He was originally called Iolani, but upon performing the 
first tabu with his father he adopted the name ofKiho Riho, 
and finally, on his father’s death, assumed that of Tame- 
hameha II., and was never willingly afterwards called by 
any other. 
In the reign of Kukanaroa, as one account says ; in that 
of Kahoukapu, according to another, the Islands of Hawaii 
had been visited. First, by a priest, who settled there with 
his gods, and whose posterity still remains ; and secondly, by 
a vessel with white men, with whom this priest was able to 
converse*. The fifth in descent from this Kahoukapu was 
Kaiamamao (the Kayenewee-a mummow of Cook), the father 
of Teraiopu. The end of his reign was marked by one of 
* See the two last chapters of Mr. Ellis’s very interesting tour in Hawaii. 
This missionary, we believe, possesses more knowledge than any other person 
respecting the Sandwich Islands, and especially their history. It may seem at 
first sight of little consecpience to know the names of barbarous kings; but the 
state in which these islands were found supposes the existence of some men supe¬ 
rior to the common—of inventors and of legislators; and if, among the traditional 
ballads and legends, the memory of such should be preserved, they will form no 
uninteresting chapter in the history of the human race. 
