You may be right about the first voyages and settlers-- makes sense That would make voyages after the first voyages even more remarkable, because the first voyagers who arrived by chance or their descendants had to navigate back to where they came from in the vast Pacific Ocean. They then had to use recorded memory of the first voyages made as castaways to find their way back. This memory of the ocean, currents, and the stars and the moon, had to then be conveyed to subsequent voyagers in a form which they could then transform to navigate back to Hawaii under different conditions. Remarkable.