Another kind of double canoe was called maihi, or twins, made from single trees, the others were sewed together from pieces of tamanu or other wood.
The vaa-motu (Island canoe) single, built for sailing, has washboards. All single canoes are provided with outriggers (ama) fixed on the left side.
The Paumotu canoes are much larger and stronger then the Tahitian ones. One from Rurutu had twelve feet depth of hold.
Tii in Tahitian means spirit of the dead.
Tiimaaraauta and Tiimaaraatai were the first human beings at Opoa in Raiatea, whence they spread over the group. The latter is sometimes called Hina.
Rua-hatu, the Tahitian Neptune, being asleep in the depth of the ocean, a fisherman of Raiatea dropped his hooks in the hair of Rua-hatu. Enraged, he came up and threatened to destroy the world. The fisherman mihi’d (apologized), and was told to go [[354]]and fetch his wife and child, and to repair to Toamarama, an island near Raiatea. He did so, took wife, child and a friend, and a pig, a dog and pair of fowls. The waters then rose and covered Raiatea and all the rest of the world, but these four alone were saved.
The Afghans have a tradition that only seven persons were saved from the deluge.
Old Arab traditions give two sons to Seth, viz. Enoch and Sabi. They also relate that Noah had one son who perished in the flood with his mother Waela. The Mexicans, according to Humboldt report also only seven persons saved from the flood.
The Marquesans have eight persons saved.
In 1625 was found in Si-quan-Fou, in the Province of Chen-Si, in China, a dark colored marble slab with an inscription, detailing the arrival of the Christian (Nestorian) missionaries there from Ta-Thsin (Persia or Syria or west of Asia), its founder was called Olopen (what relation to the Hawaiian Olopana?). In the inscription God is called Oloho, supposed a corruption of the Syrian Eloha. (What relation has this word to the name of the Tahitian god Olo, or to the Hawaiian name for God’s residence Olo-loi-mehani?)