However this may be, every one agrees that Paao was a foreigner, and a _naauao_ (scholar; literally, a man with enlightened entrails, the Hawaiians placing the mind and affections in the bowels).
(8.) Hina, according to tradition, brought into the world several sons, who dug the palis of Hulaana.

It may be asked whether _Hina_, which means _a fall_, does not indicate a deluge (Kaiakahinalii of the Hawaiians), or some sort of cataclysm, and whether the islanders have not personified events.
(9.) It is, however, improbable that there were ever genuine sorcerers among the Hawaiians, in the sense that word has among Christians.

It may have happened, and indeed it happens every day, that people die after the machinations of the kahuna-anaana; but it is more reasonable to refer these tragical deaths to the use of poison, than to attribute them to the incantations of the sorcerers.

It is moreover known that there are on the group many poisons furnished by trees, by shrubs and sea-weeds; and the kahuna-anaana understood perfectly these vegetable poisons.

The many known examples of their criminal use inclines us to believe that these kahuna were rather poisoners than magicians.