Legends of Old Honolulu (Mythology) / Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian

LOTUS LILIES AND COCONUTS—WAIKIKI
LEGENDS of OLD HONOLULU
(MYTHOLOGY)
Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian BY W. D. WESTERVELT AUTHOR OF “LEGENDS OF GHOSTS AND GHOST-GODS,” “LEGENDS OF VOLCANOES,” “LIFE OF KAMEHAMEHA.”
ELLIS PRESS, BOSTON, MASS., U.S.A. CONSTABLE & CO., LONDON, G.B. 1916
Copyright, 1915, by William Drake Westervelt Honolulu, T.H.
Second Edition
Copyright, 1916, by William Drake Westervelt Honolulu, T.H.
BOSTON, U.S.A. PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO.
The legends of a people are of interest to the scholar, the thinker, and the poet.
The legends tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, and the wanderings of the people, of their thoughts, their aspirations; in short, they give us a twilight history of the race.
As the geologist finds in the rocks the dim records of the beginnings of life on our planet, the first foreshadowings of the mighty forests that have since covered the lands, and of the countless forms of animal life that have at last culminated in Man, so does the historian discover in the legends of a people the dim traces of its origin and development till it comes out in the stronger light of the later day.