Old time Hawaiians and their work . Menehunes felling a Tree his family so that they could all make the new countrytheir home. He may have brought the first large gourdand planted it; certainly that variety is not found in theSouth Seas, where most of the people came from. Wakea and his wife Papa came also in those earlytimes. Legends tell us that they came from Savaii in THE FIRST PEOPLE AND HOW THEY CAME 19 Samoa, that they named the islands after their old home,and even that they created the earth. They introducedthe tabu system. The tabus were many laws, mostly foolish ones, whichthe commo
Old time Hawaiians and their work . Menehunes felling a Tree his family so that they could all make the new countrytheir home. He may have brought the first large gourdand planted it; certainly that variety is not found in theSouth Seas, where most of the people came from. Wakea and his wife Papa came also in those earlytimes. Legends tell us that they came from Savaii in THE FIRST PEOPLE AND HOW THEY CAME 19 Samoa, that they named the islands after their old home,and even that they created the earth. They introducedthe tabu system. The tabus were many laws, mostly foolish ones, whichthe common people had to obey. There were also tabusfor the chiefs and priests, but these were not so many. Coconut Drum, Hlla Drum and in number. If the tabus were broken the gods were sup-posed to be angry, and the offender was put to death byorder of the priest. Often there was a reason for the firsttabu, — as, for instance, one upon food that was scarce,—but the tabu was kept after the food became tabus made it easy for the chief and the priest tohave all the power in their own hands. For many years no more people came to the Hawaiian Islands. At this ti mie, so the old leorends tell us, the 20 OLD-TIME HAWAIIANS AND THEIR WORK McucJniucs, or fairies, lived in the forests, and came outstealthily at night to build heiaus and fishponds andcanoes. In Thrums Hawaiian Folktales you canread about some of the wonderful \vorks which theyare said to have performed. Ill You ha\e probably read stories of the Norsemen whomade daring voyages in the Atlantic Ocean, and who were the first to discoverAmerica. About the sametime equally brave sea-men in the Pacific Oceanw^ere
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