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Some years after they were found by a man and a woman who had voyaged from Kahiki in a canoe, and liking the scenery and climate, they went ashore on the eastern side of Hawaii, and remained there to become the progenitors of the present race.
Keawe stepped out among the crowd and began to ask for Lopaka. It seemed he had become the owner of a schooner—none better in the islands—and was gone upon an adventure as far as Pola-Pola or Kahiki; so there was no help to be looked for from Lopaka.
The sacerdotal order had its origin in Paao, whose descendants have always been regarded as the Kahuna maoli. Paao came from a distant land called Kahiki. According to several chiefs, his genealogy must be more correct than that of the kings.
Kana would often straddle from Kauai to Oahu, like a colossus of Rhodes, and when a king of Kahiki, who was keeper of the sun, undertook to deprive the people of it, because of some slight, Kana waded across the sea and forced that king to behave himself instanter; then, having seen the light properly placed in the sky, he spread his breech-clout over a few acres of volcano to dry, and took a nap on a mile or so of lava bed.
Keawe stepped out among the crowd and began to ask for Lopaka. It seemed he had become the owner of a schooner none better in the islands and was gone upon an adventure as far as Pola-Pola or Kahiki; so there was no help to be looked for from Lopaka.
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