CONTENTS. 



PART I. 



PAGE 



Preface i 



Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies 2 



Various Heathen Prayers 46 



Concerning the Construction of the Heiau $2 



History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the 



Order of Sorcery 56 



Preface — Order of Priesthood — The Diviner and 

 Weather Prophet — Meaning of Divination — Di- 

 vining a Location for the House — Other Un- 

 favorable Locations — Divination on the Erec- 

 tion of Houses — Faultily Constructed Houses — 

 Divination on a Post denoting Disease- 

 Divining the Positions of Houses. 



History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Okk-n Time 



Called Hoomananiana 66 



Explanatory Remarks — History of the Sorcery 

 Priesthood — Divisions and Ordinances — Sac- 

 rifice Services of the Student — Divination — 

 Praying to Death — Divination Relating to 

 Houses — Divining Omens by the Clouds — Fore- 

 telling the Weather — The Healing Priests — 

 Canoe Dreams — Adverse Signs — the Rainbow 

 and the Rain — The Excrements — Bananas — 

 The Mud-Hen — Auguries in Relation to Kings 

 — The Massage Priest — the Hoounauna Priest 

 — The Hookomokomo Priest — the INIakani 



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Priest — The Love-Inducing Priest — The One- 

 oneihonua — Signs Pertaining to Fishermen — 

 Occupation of Farmers — Dreams — Auguries 

 Relating to the Priesthood — Moles — Favorable 

 Birth Months — Auguries of the Canoe-Hewing 

 Priests — Spear Hurling — Bone Breaking Trad- 

 ing as Related to Agriculture — Ceremonial 

 Functions of the Priesthood — Method of Build- 

 ing the Temple — Some Famous Priests. 



An Account of Cultivation 160 



Dry Planting— Wet Planting— The Potato— The 

 Banana — Sugar-Caue — The Water !Melon — The 

 Calabash and Water-Gourd — Corn — The Pie 

 Melon — Names of Different Plants — Men 

 Noted in Agriculture. 



An Account of Fishing 172 



Shore Fishing — Fishing from Canoe — Night Fish- 

 ing. 

 Relating to Amusements. 

 Chapter 



L Kiln — Ume— Puhenehene— The Sled— The 



Runner — Pahee — Olohu — Swinging 192 



H. Boxing — The Long God — Bathing by Jump- 

 ing — Kite Flying — Surf-Riding — Dancing — Ko- 

 nane — Cat's Cradle — The Puzzle — Game of Koi 

 — Arrow-Slinging — Cock-Fighting 202 



PART II. 



PAGE 



Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race 222 



Traditional Hawaiian History 239 



Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions. 



Viti — Fiji — New Zealand — Tonga Islands — Mar- 

 quesas 258 



Legend of Hawaii-Loa 266 



The Story of Kahahana 282 



A Lamentation for Kahahana 292 



Notes on a Lamentation for Kahahana 299 



On Hawaiian Rank 307 



Chronological List 312 



Events in Hawaiian History 317 



Traditional and Genealogical Notes 318 



Birthplace and Interment Localities of Celebrities 319 

 Hawaiian Genealogy 324 



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Notes on the Polynesian Calendar 330 



Hawaiian and Samoan Calendar — Davs of Months 

 — Names of Months — Hours of the Day — The 

 words : Day, Month, Year — Names of Stars in 

 Hawaiian — Points of the Compass. 



Creation Myths 335 



Traditionary Voyages 338 



On the word Amama 340 



Philological and Miscellaneous Notes 341 



Story of HiiakaikapoHopele — Extracts from Story 

 of Keanini — Some Kauai terms with equiva- 

 lents. 



Things similar in India, etc., and Polynesia 347 



The Numerical System, comparative 355 



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