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“salubrious”
― Patrick Vinton Kirch, A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i

“Just how large was the indigenous population when Cook first arrived? Why and when did the great Polynesian navigators stop sailing between Hawai‘i and Tahiti to the south? Did they ever reach the shores of South or North America? How did Polynesian chiefs become divine kings, in a manner that resembled the leaders of other early civilizations? When did human sacrifice first come to be practiced in Hawai‘i, and what role did sacrifice play in the emerging state cults? What were the roles of religion and ideology in Hawaiian political evolution? In the chapters that follow I attempt to answer these and other questions, based”
― Patrick Vinton Kirch, A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i