By
W. D. WESTERVELT
Author of “Maui the Demi-God of Polynesia”; “Legends of Old Honolulu”; “Hawaiian Gods and Ghosts”; “Around the Poi-bowl”; “Hawaiian Volcanoes,” etc.
ILLUSTRATED
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Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1923, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street
To
my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt,
and my son, Andrew Castle Westervelt,
this sixth of my books on Hawaiian
Literature is heartily dedicated. [[7]]
PREFACE
From mist to sunshine—from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States—this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. This outline is thoroughly Hawaiian in the method of presentation. The old people rehearsed stories depending upon stories told before. They cared very little for dates. This is a book of stories related to each other.