Iii. The Water Of Life : p. 24 III THE WATER OF LIFE 1 "THE SELF-RELIANT DRAGON" is frequently mentioned in the oldest Hawaiian legends. This dragon was probably a very old crocodile worshipped as the ancestor goddess of the Hawaiian chief families. She dwelt in one of the mysterious islands mentioned in the Hawaii...
Illustrations : p. 1 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE IDOLS BY WHICH CAPTAIN COOK WAS WORSHIPPED "Title page SPEAR THROWING CONTEST 62 CHIEFS IN FEATHER CLOAKS AND HELMETS 88 LANDING OF WARRIORS 134 HAWAIIAN GRASS HOUSES 172 FIRST LEAFLET PRINTED, 1822 184 TITLE PAGE OF FIRST HYMN BOOK, 1823 186 FIRST BIBLE PRINTING...
Iv. A Viking Of The Pacific : p. 35 IV A VIKING OF THE PACIFIC HISTORY is frequently legendary. That historian is incompetent who deliberately ignores tradition and fable. A nation founded in the sunlight of civilisation cannot have a legendary past, but it must depend many times upon the cloudy memory of individuals. Legends...
Xi. Captain Cook : p. 100 XI CAPTAIN COOK IN response to an appeal from the British Admiralty, Captain Cook left England to enter upon his third voyage in July, 1776, with the purpose of restoring some natives of the Society Islands to their home; examining islands of the Pacific for good harbours for future English...
Preface : p. 3 PREFACE FROM mist to sunshine--from fabled gods to a constitution and legislature as a Territory of the United States--this is the outline of the stories told in the present volume. This outline is thoroughly Hawaiian in the method of presentation. The old people rehearsed stories depending...
Vi. The Sons Of Kii : p. 47 VI THE SONS OF KII SOMETIME during the fifth or sixth century of the Christian era--according to estimates based on Hawaiian genealogies--two brothers, Ulu and Nanaulu, came to the Hawaiian Islands and established a dynasty of high chiefs. Their father was Kii, a king in the Southern Pacific...
Ii. Maui Seeking Immortality : p. 19 II MAUI SEEKING IMMORTALITY THE story of Maui seeking immortality for the human race is one of the finest myths in the world. For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale from Grecian or Latin literature to compare with it. In Greek and Roman fables gods suffered...
V. Legendary Home Of The Polynesians : p. 41 V LEGENDARY HOME OF THE POLYNESIANS THE Hawaiians, like the native residents of many other groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, have not taken kindly to the European names tacked upon their doorposts by the sailors who discovered them. This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather...
The Alapa Regiment : p. 125 XIII THE ALAPA REGIMENT 1776 KA-LANI-OPUU was the Moi, or king, of Hawaii, at whose feet Captain Cook was slain in 1779. He had been the ruling chief since 1754. He was a restless warrior and signalised his reign by bloody battles with the chiefs of the neighbouring island of Maui...
I. Maui The Polynesian : p. 13 I MAUI THE POLYNESIAN AMONG the really ancient ancestors of the Hawaiian chiefs, Maui is one of the most interesting. His name is found in different places in the high chief genealogy. He belonged to the mist land of time. He was one of the Polynesian demi-gods. He was possessed...
Xv. The Eight Of Oahu : p. 149 XV THE EIGHT OF OAHU THIS is a story of one of the most daring deeds in Hawaiian history. After the death of Captain Cook in 1779 Ka-meha-meha was slowly gaining dominion over the large island of Hawaii. Meanwhile the king of Maui, Kahekili, seemed to be far more successful in extending...
Untitled : p. 217 INDEX Alexander, W. D., 95, 132, 175. American Occupation, 211. Annexation to United States, 213. Anson, Lord, 99. Ao-tea-roa, New Zealand, 23. Aukele-nui-a-iku, 24, 33. Battle of Sand-hills, 136. Battle of the Tabu, 181. Bingham, 184, 188. Blount, "Paramount," 211. Campbell, Alexander, 183...
Viii. Moi Keha, The Restless : p. 79 VIII MOI-KEHA, THE RESTLESS FOLKLORE is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is an outgrowth of sympathy with history. The imagination loves a truth in nature or in history and weaves around it a web of thoughts of things which might...
Ix. Laa From Tahiti : p. 86 IX LAA FROM TAHITI WHEN history is told by genealogies, rather than by cycles of years, the time-problem is difficult to solve. But in the story of Laa-mai-Kahiki 1 the stories and genealogies of two widely separated groups of Pacific islands produce a certain degree of apparent accuracy...
Xviii. Last Of The Tabu : p. 176 XVIII LAST OF THE TABU TO-DAY the thatched house is a curiosity in the Hawaiian Islands. In the time of our story the grass roof was the only shelter from the rain and heat, except the thick-leaved tree or the insecure lava cave. The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long...
Xiv. The Last Prophet Of Oahu : p. 143 XIV THE LAST PROPHET OF OAHU IN THE DAYS OF KAHAHANA, 1782 PAUMAKUA was one of the great voyagers among the ocean-rovers of over eight hundred years ago. Fornander in his "Account of the Polynesian Race" says: "One of the legends relates that Paumakua, on his return from one of his foreign...
Xii. The Ivory Of Oahu : p. 114 XII THE IVORY OF OAHU KING KAHAHANA, ABOUT 1773 THE story of the ivory of Oahu is a tale of treachery and triumph on the part of Kahekili, King of Maui, and of defeat and death for Kahahana, the last independent king of Oahu. Kahahana was the son of Elani, chief of Ewa, one of the most...
Pronunciation : PRONUNCIATION In reading Hawaiian words do not end a syllable with a consonant, and pronounce all vowels as if they were Italian or French. a = a in father. e = e in they. i = i in pin. o = o in hold. u = oo in spoon. This is a fairly good rule for the pronunciation of all Polynesian words.
X. First Foreigners : p. 93 X FIRST FOREIGNERS IT IS said that the Chinese gave to the clove the name "Thengki"--"the sweet-scented nail." When the clove came to Rome, the haughty lovers of spices exclaimed "clavus"--"a nail." The English made a slight change and said "clove." Solomon, the wise, and King Hiram...
Xvi. The Red Mouth Gun : p. 155 XVI THE RED MOUTH GUN KA-PU-W AHA-ULAULA THE Red Mouth Gun is the name given by the Hawaiians to the great canoe battle fought off Waipio, Hawaii, in the year 1791, according to Fornander. This was the first naval battle in which guns were the prominent weapons used by the Hawaiian chiefs...
Xix. First Hawaiian Printing : p. 183 XIX FIRST HAWAIIAN PRINTING FOREIGNERS from all over the world called on the Hawaiians and remained with them forty years before the missionaries came. Their influence was negative. They did not study the people or help them to study. John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable...
Xxi. The Hawaiian Flag : p. 200 XXI THE HAWAIIAN FLAG THE flag which has floated over the Hawaiian Islands for more than a century is a combination of the "Union Jack" and stripes rather than the "Stars and Stripes," to which it now gives precedence. The Union Jack in the upper or "halyard" corner, and eight stripes, red...
Vii. Paao From Samoa : p. 65 VII PAAO FROM SAMOA KA-MEHA-MEHA is the chief name around which Hawaiian history gathers. It is the nimbus of a cloud of stories, legends and chants. Hawaiians never reckoned history by dates, but by genealogies--as did the Hebrews. They measured time not by the years but by the lives...
Xx. The First Constitution : p. 189 XX THE FIRST CONSTITUTION MANY subtle influences were at work in the evolution of Hawaiian civilisation. Between the years 1835-1840 there was a culmination of several forces, each one important in itself and all uniting to bring about the exceedingly interesting series of events which...
Title Page : HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL LEGENDS By WILLIAM D. WESTERVELT Fleming H. Revell Co., New York [1923] scanned , April 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed in a timely fashion at the US Copyright Office as required by law...
Xvii. The Law Of The Splintered Paddle : p. 162 XVII THE LAW OF THE SPLINTERED PADDLE WOULD you know the story of the Splintered Paddle? It came to pass on the island of Hawaii in the year 1783. It is a true incident in the life of Ka-meha-meha, the great consolidator of the Hawaiian Kingdom. There are slightly different versions...
