Hawaii History:
(from “History of the Catholic Mission in the Hawaiian Islands” by Father Reginald Yzendoorn, SS.CC., Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd., Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1927)
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A third account states that a number of years after the departure of Manahini and his party seven foreigners arrived at Kearakekua Bay. They came in a painted boat with an awning or canopy over the stern, but without mast or sails. They were all dressed; the color of their clothes was white or yellow, and one of them wore a pahi (long knife), the name by which they still call a sword, at his side, and had a feather in his hat. The natives received them kindly. They married native women, were made chiefs, proved themselves warriors, and ultimately became very powerful in the island of Hawaii, which it is said, was for some time governed by them.
The most unaccountable circumstance connected with the priest Paao, is his arriving alone, though he might be the only survivor of his party. If such a person ever did arrive, we should think he was a Roman Catholic priest, and the reported gods an image and a crucifix. (Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, 1828, pp. 447-449, Pol. Researches IV, 438-440.)
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Blessings, pono and pule!
Fr. Brian Guerrini, ss.cc.
Priest
Molokai