(Read before Social Science Club, Honolulu)
Pearl Harbor, as it is now known, is mentioned in the accounts of early Pacific voyages as "Wai Momi"—literally, the "Water of the Pearl," or "Pearl Water." We find it also mentioned in early accounts as "Pearl River," and "Pearl Lochs."
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