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

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UNDER HAWAIIAN SKIES

were survivors, such as the Hawaiians, the Tahitians, the Marquesans, the Samoans, and so on, while a vast area of land and
ames (lisa)ppearedl eneath the sea.
By a strange coincidence the name of the Hawaiian Noah was
Nu-u. The latter, according to the traditions, built a large vessel,
and a house placed upon it called "He Waa-H-alau-Alii-o-kaMoku." \hlen the flood subsilded the gods Ka-ne, Ku and Lono
entered the "Waa Halau" of Nu-u and directed him to leave.
H-Ie (lid so and found himlself on the sutlmmit of Mauna Kea, the
towerinlg mount on the island of Hawaii, possibly the Mount
Ararat of the Hawaiian Deluge. He called a cave there after his
wife, Lili-noe, which remains so designated to this (lay. Other
legeInds say it was not there that Nu-u landed(, but in KalhikiI-lonua-Kele, a large and exclusive country.
Some legendls have it that the rainbow was the patlway b)y
which Ka-ne (lescenlle(l to sp)eak to Nu-u. Wlhen Nu-u left the
vessel lie carried witl him a p)i, cocoantts and awa as offerings
to his god, Ka-ne. As lie was al)out to leave lie glanced at tlhe
moon an(ld tlought it was the god and Imused him to himself:
"T'hou art Ka-ne, thouigh thou hast transformedl thyself to 1my
sight," anlt( so lhe worshillped. Ka-ne spoke reprovingly to Nu-u,
but on accounlt of being regarlled as a mistake, no p)ulislhment
was meted out to llill. Thell Ka-ne ascendlel to heaven a..nd left
tlhe rainow\ as a token of his forgiv\eness. All tie l)reviouls poplulation hlavinog lbeen (lestroye(l bly tile flood, Nu-u, the legenll runs,
lecame tlhe seconld lprogellitor of all present llalllill(l.
Ancient chants relate that the islandl of Maui was anllaed after
1lawaii Ioa's first blornl sol; the islalld of ()ahu after -Iawaii
Ioa's (laughlter; the island of Kauai after Iiawaii l oa's younger
son1. -His wife's name \\as Waialeale. They dw\elt on Kauai and
tlhe highest mountain thereon was calle(l after her because ulpon
it she was buried. lAnd thus other isla(nds and d(listricts were called
after tle first (lwellers.
But for the love tlie people bore for the great continent that
"sleels un(ler the sea" and for their surviving islas, th ae
certain n1ames to plerletuate events, such as i\a-lliki-nui, on