Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

WHtENCE CAMIE THE HAWAIIANS?

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zon-lost in its glittering, heaving monotony, and watching a tiny
object drift ever so slowly-but to them a titanic canoe-bearingl(
masts andl sails, vaster than the heavy wind-holders fashioned
from native fibre by the mat weavers, which they raised above
their hollowed craft.
\\Who can satirize ignorance begotten of isolation of centuries
upon centuries because of the fear expressed at such a spectacle
rising out of the sea?
Such may have been the astonishment of Kalaniopuu, the aged
king of Hawaii, and of the young chief Kamellameha, founder,
later, of the Hawaiian empire, when Captain Cook's vessels of
discover- came to anchor in Hawaiian waters in the beautiful bay
of Kealakekua, islandl of H-awaii, where the navigator at first
was honored and regarded as the god Lono, returned to his
native land after a long absence, and wlhere, finally, knlown to be
merely a human beilng, the tragedy was enacted when the Enlglishman forfeited his life upon the lava shore.
I \AWA \IIAN -VERSION O() TI tEI CREATION
P'OETIC EPIC CHANTS OF A LOST CONTINENT
AWAIIANS andl historians alike have invad(le every fiel(l
of research andl opportunity to answer the question,
" Whence calme the H awaiils?' None las vet satisfactorily found a solution to this puzzle of the ages.
Tra(litions, chants, legenlds, genealogies, great areas of picturerocks whereon Hawaiians carved strange marks, andl even the
sacre(l lburial caves. have been lbroughlt under tle searchlight of
in vestiogatiol.
Thie writtein history of tile -awaiiall Islands lIegins witl their
(liscovery 1)y Captain Cook il 1778. but at that time the al)original
inllhalitants Ilad an oral, traditional hlistory which extended far
back into tile centuries.