[80]. Hawaiki, S. Percy Smith, p. 294.
[81]. See below, pp. 313–4.
[82]. If it were not that the strife between the Long and Short Ears is always placed in very remote ages, we might be tempted to see in it a struggle between the adherents of the older and newer fashion. In the Hawaiian Islands such a combat took place before the advent of Christianity, see p. 322.
[83]. Quest and Occupation of Tahiti, Hakluyt Society, vol. ii. p. 270.
[84]. They had, of course, no connection with Adams the mutineer.
[85]. Another daughter was the wife of Mr. Brander, the connection of whose firm with Easter Island has already been seen.
[86]. My budget contained, with over twenty letters from my Mother, the news that she had died suddenly the preceding April; and that the old home no longer existed. The tidings were no surprise. I had had the strongest conviction, dating from about one month after her death, that she was no longer here. The realisation came at first with a sense of shock, which was noted in my journal and written to friends in England; afterwards it continued with a quiet persistence which amounted to practical certainty.
[87]. Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, p. 102.
[88]. Polynesian Researches, vol. iv. p. 167.
[89]. Thrum. Hawaiian Annual, 1908.