HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL LEGENDS 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 New York Chicago Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh To my wife, Caroline Castle Westervelt, and my son, Andrew Castle Westervelt, this sixth of my books on Hawaiian Literature is heartily dedicated. 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 …
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