Belated comment on "Re: Mystery Language Identified/SSILA Bulletin #89 (fwd)

[Lisa Peppan]

On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, it was said that:

>>The second word list turns out to be Hawaiian.  The missionary
evidently
>>misunderstood the English name for the Hawaiian Islands to be "San
>>Luis" instead of "Sandwich."

And just a quick side note on Hawaiians.  In the older census records for
Western Washington, and parts of southern BC and Vancouver Island, I've
seen a number of folks enumerated who listed their birth places as the
Sandwich Islands, many of whom had "no last name"s.

Lisa
IBSSG
Edmonds WA USA
lisapeppan at juno.com
Genealogy Research at http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/index.html

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