Note 1 — PREFACE. (continued 4)

This famous legend of Aukele-nui-a-iku, says Fornander, has the earmarks of great antiquity and is known in some form or other on several of the Polynesian groups, Aukele, the hero, being the youngest son of Iku, or Aiku in other lands. The story has marked resemblance in several features to the Hebrew account of Joseph and his brethren, and is traced back to Cushite origin through wanderings and migrations rather than being an evidence of Spanish influence during their contact with this group of islands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. See Pol. Race, Vol. I, p. 40. ↑