" "Oh," said Sahwah, "I thought only Hawaiians lived in HawaiiI didn't know anyone else was ever born there.

He fitted German airs to Hawaiian words, composed music on native themes, and spontaneously and by adaptation he, with others, gave a trend to the music of Hawaii nei that, though European in the main, is yet charmingly expressive of the soft, sweet nature of the Hawaiians and of the contrasts of their delightful gaiety and innate melancholy.

She was glad that the white sailor who did not care for life had saved the Hawaiians.

Taro, the staple food of Hawaiians, either simply boiled or fermented as poi, was not a decided favorite in Tahiti.

Then the present Hawaiians were isolated and forgotten for twenty-one generations until rediscovery by Captain Cook in 1778.

In modern times these great canoes were built in Bora-Bora, the island the Hawaiians say they came from, and the name of which means 'Land of the Big House Canoes.'

The Hawaiians are only twenty-two thousand.

Was this a remnant of a forgotten cannibalistic habit, or a protest of the Tahitians and Hawaiians against the custom as not being Polynesian, but a concession to a fashion adopted in fighting the Fijian anthropopogi?

The spectators were of all nations, including many Hawaiians.

Captain Cook (II., 246) observed in Fiji differences in form between men and females, but little difference in features; and of the Hawaiians he wrote that with few exceptions they "have little claim to those peculiarities that distinguish the sex in other countries.

Hawaiians cut their hair in various forms, knock out a front tooth, cut the ears and tattoo a spot on the tongue.

He found Tongan women less distinguished from the men by their features than by their forms, while in the case of Hawaiians even the figures were remarkably similar (II., 144, 246).

The Hawaiians, though far from being ugly, are "neither remarkable for a beautiful shape, nor for striking features" (246).

Thus there are ten cooks, and the question arises, "did they carefully and conscientiously tell these stories exactly as related to them by aboriginal Hawaiians, free from missionary influences, or did they flavor the broth with European condiments?"

"The loves of the Hawaiians are usually ephemeral," says "Häolé," the author of Sandwich Island Notes (267).

The Maoris are certainly Polynesians, and they resemble Hawaiians and Tongans in many respects.

Hawaiians will be saved from extinction by miscegenation.

The Hawaiians were enabled to get their old stories into print because they suddenly fell into the hands of masterful men who had a written language.

Mormons. Hawaiians...................

The Japanese and South Sea Islanders are about evenly divided in their numbers as to term and day service, while Hawaiians and Portuguese show each but a small proportion of their numbers under contract.

There is some dissatisfaction among the Hawaiians, who are bewildered.

"Thefts, robberies, murders, infanticide, licentiousness of the most debased and debasing character, burying their infirm and aged parents alive, desertion of the sick, revolting cruelties to the unfortunate maniac, cannibalism and drunkenness, form a list of some of the traits in social life among the Hawaiians in past days.

Mr. Dibble's book is printed by the Mission Seminary, and Mr. Dibble says, page 21: "We know that all the inhabitants of the earth descended from Noah," therefore, the Hawaiians "must once have known the great Jehova and the principles of true religion."

But the historian says on the next page that the Hawaiians were heathen from time immemorial, for, "Go back to the very first reputed progenitor of the Hawaiian race, and you find that the ingredients of their character are lust, anger, strife, malice, sensuality, revenge and the worship of idols."

The Rarotongans call themselves "Maori," and can understand the New Zealand speech; so, as a rule, can the other South Sea tribes, even the distant Hawaiians.