Once a Maui fishing and farming
community, now the site of a popular resort.
The population of the
Hawaiian islands was estimated by James King, with the Cook expedition, as
400,000. But King saw only coastal settlements, and formed an opinion-disproved
by later visitors—that the interiors held no settlements… Extensive
remains of home sites, sweet potato enclosures and taro terraces irrigated by
ancient watercourses on lands were these have not been erased by modern uses
support a minimum estimate of 800,000 at that time…
Page 66,67 Ancient
Hawaii
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