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Title: Hawaiian Folk Tales
A Collection of Native Legends

Author: Various

Editor: Thomas G. Thrum

Release Date: May 25, 2006 [EBook #18450]

Language: English

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Hawaiian Folk Tales

A Collection of Native Legends

Compiled by

Thos. G. Thrum

With sixteen illustrations from photographs

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1907

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.

The early attempts of Dibble and Pogue to gather history from Hawaiians
themselves have preserved to native and foreign readers much that
would probably otherwise have been lost. To the late Judge Andrews we
are indebted for a very full grammar and dictionary of the language,
as also for a valuable manuscript collection of _meles_ and antiquarian
literature that passed to the custody of