Copyright, 1907
By
A. C. McClurg & Co.


Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England
Published March 1, 1907


The Lakeside Press
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Chicago





PREFACE


It is becoming more and more a matter of regret that a larger amount
of systematic effort was not established in early years for the
gathering and preservation of the folk-lore of the Hawaiians. The
world is under lasting obligations to the late Judge Fornander,
and to Dr. Rae before him, for their painstaking efforts to gather
the history of this people and trace their origin and migrations;
but Fornander's work only has seen the light, Dr. Rae's manuscript
having been accidentally destroyed by fire.