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 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. 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 …
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