THE LEGENDS AND MYTHS
OF
HAWAII.
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Kalakaua
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THE FABLES AND FOLK-LORE
OF A
STRANGE PEOPLE.
OF A
STRANGE PEOPLE.
New York:
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.
1888.
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.
1888.
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Copyright, 1887,
By CHARLES L. WEBSTER &CO.
H. J. HEWITT, PRINTER AND ELECTROTYPER, 37 ROSEST., N. Y. [5]
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PREFACE.
For material in the compilation of many of the legendsembraced in this volume obligation is acknowledged to H. R. H.Liliuokalani; General John Owen Dominis; His Excellency Walter M.Gibson; Professor W. D. Alexander; Mrs. E. Beckley, GovernmentLibrarian; Mr. W. James Smith, Secretary of the National Board ofEducation; and especially to Hon. Abram Fornander, the learned authorof “An Account of the Polynesian Race, its Origin andMigrations.”
The legends, in the order of their publication, beginning with thefirst and ending with “The Destruction of the Temples,” maybe regarded, so far as they refer to the prominent political eventswith which they are associated, as in a measure historic. Thosefollowing have been selected as the most striking and characteristic ofwhat remains of the fabulous folk-lore of the Hawaiian group.[6]
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