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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 5 — Traditional Hawaiian History.

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The Nuuhiwans have a tradition that twenty generations ago (counting from 1812) an akua called Haii visited all their islands and brought with him the first hogs and a number of birds. The name of hog in Marquesan is puaka. (Rienzi, L’Univers Pittoresque, Vol. 2, p. 230.) ↑

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