Volume 6 / Part 2 — Traditionary Voyages.

That the memory of the northern Hawaii should in process of time, and after the cessation of this period of intercourse, have faded from the minds of southern chiefs and bards, or been confounded with that of the Samoan Sawaii, is natural enough; though I think it possible, were Tahitian, Tongan and Samoan legends—if yet existing—properly compared with each other and with the Hawaiian, that many proofs may yet be drawn from that side of the frequent intercourse, hostile, or friendly, of those days between the northern and southern groups of the Pacific.

Though the northern Hawaii was apparently unknown to the Tonga and Society Islanders in Captain Cook’s time, yet the Marquesas retained the memory of former intercourse with that northern Hawaii whose burning mountain, Mounaoa (Maunaloa), is referred to in some of their songs, but these reminiscences are apparently confused and mixed up with others of that older and far-off Hawaii and Vevao where they had sojourned before arriving at their own group of islands.