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Original Title Page.
THE LEGENDS AND MYTHS
OF
HAWAII.
THE FABLES AND FOLK-LORE
OF A
STRANGE PEOPLE.
BY
HIS HAWAIIAN MAJESTY
KALAKAUA.
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
HON. R. M. DAGGETT,
Late United States Minister to the Hawaiian
Islands.
New York:
CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY.
1888.
Copyright, 1887,
By CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO.
H. J. HEWITT, PRINTER AND ELECTROTYPER, 37 ROSE ST., N. Y.
PREFACE.
For material in the compilation of many of the legends embraced in this volume obligation is acknowledged to H. R. H. Liliuokalani; General John
Owen Dominis; His Excellency Walter M. Gibson; Professor W. D.
Alexander; Mrs. E. Beckley, Government Librarian; Mr. W. James Smith,
Secretary of the National Board of Education; and especially to Hon. Abram
Fornander, the learned author of “An Account of the Polynesian Race, its
Origin and Migrations.”
The legends, in the order of their publication, beginning with the first and ending with “The Destruction of the Temples,” may be regarded, so far as they refer to the prominent political events with which they are associated, as in a measure historic. Those following have been selected as the most striking and characteristic of what remains of the fabulous folk-lore of the Hawaiian group.
MAP of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
MAP of the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Preface.
5
Hawaiian
Legends:
Introduction.
9–65
Hina, the
Helen of
Hawaii.
67–94
The Royal
Hunchback.
95–113
The Triple
Marriage of
Laa-maikahiki.
115–135
The
Apotheosis
of Pele.
137–154
Hua, King of
Hana.
155–173
The Iron
Knife.
175–205
The Sacred
Spear-Point.
207–225
Kelea, the
Surf-Rider of
Maui.
227–246
Umi, the
Peasant
Prince of
Hawaii.
247–315
Lono and
Kaikilani.
317–331
The
Adventures
of
Iwikauikaua.
333–349
The
Prophecies of
Keaulumoku.
351–367
The
Cannibals of
Halemanu.
369–380
Kaiana, the
Last of the
Hawaiian
Knights.
381–408
Kaala, the
Flower of
Lanai.
409–427
The
Destruction
of the
Temples.
429–446
The Tomb of
Puupehe.
447–452
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