IX. LAA FROM TAHITIWHEN history is told by genealogies, rather than by cycles of years, the time-problem is difficult to solve. But in the story of Laa-maiKahiki1 the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of
Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy. The Society Islands have the story of Raa who became a ruler and established a line of rulers which has continued to the present day. The genealogy of this Raa family coincides very closely in extent with the number of names given in the Hawaiian genealogies from the time of the visit of Laa from Tahiti to his uncle Moi-keha the Restless and his subsequent return to Tahiti. This places the time of Laa in the thirteenth century.
Moi-keha sailed away from the Hawaiian Islands with his brother
Olopana and
