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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M/atii, hut they are said, accordling to traditions, to have calledl
tIhe g-reat continent "Hawaii," and retaine(1 this nam for the
group~ onl which they found themselves as survivors, I f not,
Hawaii was thenr the name of a person and~ the islandIs named
after that lperson.
W~hat (loes the word lHawaii mean? is a natural question. Fromn
time immem1ilorial the Hawlajians have calle(I themselves -Ko
H~awaii," meaning "of Hawaii;" "Ka-pae amna o Hawaii," anld
"Na Moku Hawaii,'', meanin- the 'islanids of Hawaii.'' This, in
the opinion of Hawaiians, means that the islandls were those "of"7
the Continent. Otherwise, the meaning is not altogether clear,
lbut is fig-urative, and means ''in the heginning11," or the "water
troug-h," or "to (lash water upon a steaming snrface."
Thie word Hawvaii, lowvever, seems to he of comparatively recent origrin andl only known inl the nine hun'ldred and1 third g~eneration fromh Lai-lai. These islands, accordling to some ancient chants,
were kICnown hv the lpreliistoric (Iwellers as the H-on-po-a-Ka —ne
(the hosom of IKa-ne) anterior to the time of the least conilnenltal
collapse which separa~_ted each Island hy the channels that now
exist. It seems strange that traditionls mu1st lbe referred to to
corrohorate this event.
It is related that certain persons landed in the Islandls from a
foreign country-"Ka-hilki," the east-known as iPaao and Makuakauimana, and their comaninsgme(l across the, waters hy
the stairs which were the compass of tlhe eat-ly ii1aw.-aiiais Valid
that P-aao lived at K-ohala, onl the island of I awaii, bnt dakuiakatimana returnedI to "Ka-hiki." iPaao came to the Islands in the
time of Lono-ka-wai, chief of Hawaii, and In the sixteenth g-eieration of kings after the time of P-a
iPaao Continued to dwell at Kohiala until, it issaidl, the poleClh
hecame wicked, whlen P aao went ahr-oad seekling a chief, anid returiied wvith one called PI1 Niivho became estahlishied as, sovereign1
over the Hawaiians. IPaao finally (leparted fromn the IslandIs.
It is narrated in chiants that Plii bronight two fishes to Hawaii
-thie opelu and the- aku, the H-axvNaiia tua of today. Whenever the wind was stroncg U9pon thle oceanl, the nmotioni of the akni,
it wvas known, would be up and (lown in the water. Wihen the