James Jackson Jarves’s History of the Hawaiian Islands is a history from the earliest traditions to 1847, in the copy whose appendix by Henry M. Whitney is dated 1872. The press line is the Pacific Commercial Advertiser Press, Honolulu. For the comparison I care about, the opening chapters are the ones that matter. Popular opinion, he says, points to Tahiti, or Kahiki, as the source from which Hawaii was peopled. A flood called Kaiakahinalii overflowed all the land except the summit of Mauna Kea. The people who were saved rode in a laau of equal height, length, and breadth, and it rested on that summit. He also prints seventy-seven generations of kings, and he refuses to adopt the lost-tribes theory until there is more proof.
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