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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hawaiian Folk Tales, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Author: Various Editor: Thomas G. Thrum Release Date: May 25, 2006 [EBook #18450] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAWAIIAN FOLK TALES *** Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) 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
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