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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.

LONDON
CONSTABLE & CO., LTD.
10 Orange St., Leicester Sq., W.C.
1916 [[iii]]

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FOREWORD

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.