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An answer came both briefly and formally from the Bishop Museum where he was the Director. "I recognize this figure from our legends. His name is Wakea. The other questions I cannot answer, much as they intrigue me. However, I am to go to an outlying island of the Tahitians where two old women can still chant the ancestor-legends. From them, and another in a different island, I hope to learn the answers. Therefore, in two or three months you will hear from me again." In three months, as promised came the second letter. "Wakea, the Healer, lived in the first century of the Christian Era, or generally speaking, in the time of Jesus." It seems that He came in the early dawning of our history to these tribes who were fighting in this outlying island. I am enclosing a copy of the story as it was told to me.") |
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