[2] Perhaps thirty years should be allowed for a generation, considering that, as a general practice, the successor to a chief and inheritor of the Kapu-moe was not always the first-born, but more frequently from a later alliance. In that case the seven generations will bring the time of Keliiokaloa’s middle-age or the birth of Kukailani at about 1526. Compare with the account by Galvaom, reported in Burney’s Discoveries in the South Seas. [↑]
[3] For translation see B. P. B. Mus. Mem. IV., p. 374. [↑]
[4] The Marquesans of Nukahiwa have a tradition that Wakea came to their country from Vavao and brought with him and his wife Owa all manner of plants and herbs, which were named after their forty children, all except Po. (See Rienzi, L’Univers Pittoresque.) [↑]
[5] The Nuuhiwans have a tradition that twenty generations ago (counting from 1812) an akua called Haii visited all their islands and brought with him the first hogs and a number of birds. The name of hog in Marquesan is puaka. (Rienzi, L’Univers Pittoresque, Vol. 2, p. 230.) [↑]
[6] For the probable place and descent of Hanalaa—(nui and iki) see comparative table of genealogies. [Fornander, Polynesian Race I, 249.] [↑]
[7] As late as the commencement of this century the Nuuhiwas were every now and then fitting out exploring expeditions in their great canoes in search of a traditional land called Utupu, supposed to be situated to the westward of their archipelago, from which the Akua Tao first introduced the coconut tree. (Univ. Pitt., V. 2, p. 230.) Turnbull relates that when Kaumualii of Kauai was sorely pressed by anticipation of Kamehameha’s invasion and conquest of Kauai, about 1802, he had a vessel built on purpose, in which to embark himself and family and chiefs and seek some foreign land where he would not be subjected to his dreaded rival. [↑]
[8] About 1159 A.D., a grand migratory wave was set in motion from Java and Sumatra, owing to internal convulsions. Some of the princes migrated to and established themselves at Celebes, others went in other directions. [↑]
[9] This mele was probably composed about the time of Kamalalawalu, King of Maui, seven generations before the birth of Kamehameha I. [↑]
[10] That is, heiaus of the rudest construction and most simple service. [↑]
[11] The Maweke line was long antecedent to the Ulu descendants; in fact may be considered as the settlers of this group,—about 1075. [↑]