Note 11 — Traditional Hawaiian History.

Whether the scions of these three lines, descending from Wakea and Papa, arrived here about the same time, or whether the Puna and Maweke lines arrived at a long interval from each other, or who had the precedence in the country, it is now impossible to determine.11 That they came from the Samoan group, through the Tahitian and Marquesas groups, after a longer or shorter stoppage in each or both, I think can be shown from philological grounds and the gradual transformation of the Hawaiian dialect, conforming more to those of the two latter than to that of the former.