User talk:Warren hughes

why do people believe surfing beganin hawaii? surfing was popular in tonga where they actually had a word for it as well as calling it wave sliding,they also had legropes,and surfing proverbs used to this day. actually recently discovered carvings discovered on happai central tonga suggest tonga may have close links with hawaii,the tongan voyagers were prolific, there are oral histories continued to this day of tongan voyages to the marquesas where the the ninth place they stopped was called nuku hiva ,translation "ninth place"and still the name of the capital of marquesas. some interesting facts- the tongan language often drops an "s" and changes it to an "h"thus samoa becomes hamoa and savaii becomes 'havaii",there are savaii and vavau named islands (an island in northern tonga)all over polynesia,bora bora's old name is" vavau" the sound of the hawaiian languge is very similar to tongan and does not sound tahtian i believe the tongans were the prolific early voyagers in polynesia whem captain cok first went to tahiti they drew a map of tonga but they had never heard of hawaii. all hisorians agree that east polynesia was colonised from the west,now samoa never even travelled much to fiji which is very close,i think it unlikely they went all the way to hawaii, ````