The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-16

canes and tornadoes. The father of
foods" buried himself deep in the
ground to escape destruction at the
hands of cruel mankind and tempestuous
nature. Then came the bitter conflict
between the family of Kanaloa and their
combined enemies. Cruel men were
without pity in the blows dealt against
their inferior kindred and at last sepa-
rated the household of Kanaloa The
hsh fed to the sea and sought safety
IN distant waters, finding homes where
the children of Ku did not care to fol-
low. The reptiles" fed inland to the
secret recesses Is the mountains and
forests There they have kept their
wild savage life through the centuries
even to the present day, as in Sumatra,
Borneo, the Celebes, the Philippines
and other sections of the region around
the Sunda Straits They are not now
ocean lovers any more than in the ages
past. They do not go down to the sea
III ships" Neither do they love the
coming of Dutch or Spanish or Amer
lean civilization. They seem 20 have an
hereditary dislike fqg strange and cruel
men.
The sea rovers became great wander
ers. carrying with them the names of
Kanaloa and his brothers and planting
them in almost all of the Pacific islands
to be worshipped as the supreme gods.
How much these domestic troubles
surrounding the name of Papa may
have had to do with an early migration
of the Polynesians we do not know
1t may be that while the household was
engaged in war, the Malays came from
the north and with tornado power scat
tered the divided family, compelling
swift flight to distant lands. 1t is now
thought that the great dispersion of the
Polynesians came from the incurSions
of the powerful Malays during the
second century of the Christian Era.
Some of the Hawaiian and New Zea-
land legends imply that for number
of generations a part of the Polyneslans
remained in the old family home, Ha-
waiki The New Zeslanders enter quite
fully into the account OF the troubles
attending the coming of their ancestors
from Hawaiki. They mention battles |
and domestic discords. They tell of
the long journeys and wearisone efforts
put. forth until their ancestors find |
Northern New Zealand, Ke-ao-tea-roa, |
the great white land This was pulled |
I'D out of the sea for them by Maui |
with his wonderful fish hook. This story !
of the magic fishing of the dlsobedlent |
and mischievous Maui IS common IN |
Polynesia.
After the discovery of New Zealand,
boats were sent back to Hawaiki to in
duce large companies of colonists to
leave the land of warfare and trouble
and settle in the rich lands bordering
the beautiful bays of New Zealand.
Similar stories OF discovery OF Slew
lands and return for friends adorn the
legends Of all Polynesia. Wakea's de-
scendants were cIannish and stood by
each other III that great migration of the I
second century as well as IN the better
remembered journey of later years.
There seems to have been a continued
migration of the Polynesians. Some
times they were apparently fought off
1y the black race as in Australia. Some
lines they held their own Tor a time,
keeping the black men inland, as in Fiji.
and sometimes they struck ont boldly
Tor new lands, as when they sailed long
distances to the Hawaiian and Easter
Islands II is said that the purest forms
IF the Polvnesian language. most bar
nonious vita one another. were carried
~ the children of Wakea to the far
Instant islands OF New Zealand, Easter
Sind Hawaii Samoa and the Society
group.