>>19434199

All pacific nations were/still are chieftain tribal cultures.

The was a top chieftain.

They have always understood this to be case.

The fact that a foreigner describes this supreme chief as a monarch 200 years ago doesn't mean that there was a supreme chieftain for, perhaps, a thousand years or more.

Its just semantics

>>19434241

All these islands are volcanic basalt, and aren't old enough to produce gold.

Gold takes millions of years to form. Much more than these islands are in age.