Hawaiian Folk Tales by Various Authors
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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
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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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