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Mr Manners at once proposed building a vessel; but the carpenter's mate, who had come in the schooner as carpenter, had been lost when the vessel went on the rocks, and none of the other men knew anything of ship-building. The natives, on hearing the wish of the English officer, offered to construct a large double canoe, three or four professional canoe-builders being among them.
She had a son, and was wondering one morning what name to give him, when some canoe-builders passed along with their tools rattling in the baskets which they carried over their shoulders. From the rattling of the tools she named her son Toi-va-i-totonu-o-le-ato-a-tufunga, or, as some would write it, Toivaitotonuoleatoatufunga.
The class of Makaainana comprises all the inhabitants not included in the two preceding classes; that is to say, the bulk of the people. There were two degrees of this cast: the kanaka wale, freemen, private citizens, and the kauwa or servants. The Hawaiians honored canoe-builders and great fishers as privileged citizens.
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