PREFACE 
This work of translation has been undertaken out of love for the 
land of Hawaii and for the Hawaiian people. To all those who have 
generously aided to further the study I wish to express my grate- 
ful thanks. I am indebted to the curator and trustees of the Bishop 
Museum for so kindly placing at my disposal the valuable manu- 
scripts in the museum collection, and to Dr. Brigham, Mr. Stokes, 
and other members of the museum staff for their help and sugges- 
tions, as well as to those scholars of Hawaiian who have patiently 
answered my questions or lent me valuable material—to Mr. Henry 
Parker, Mr. Thomas Thrum, Mr. William Rowell, Miss Laura Green, 
Mr. Stephen Desha, Judge Hazelden of Waiohinu, Mr. Curtis 
Taukea, Mr. Edward Lilikalani, and Mrs. Emma Nawahi. Espe- 
cially am I indebted to Mr. Joseph Emerson, not only for the gen- 
erous gift of his time but for free access to his entire collection of 
manuscript notes. My thanks are also due to the hosts and hostesses 
through whose courtesy I was able to study in the field, and to Miss 
Ethel Damon for her substantial aid in proof reading. Nor would 
I forget to record with grateful appreciation those Hawaiian in- 
terpreters whose skill and patience made possible the rendering into 
English of their native romance—Mrs. Pokini Robinson of Maui, 
Mr. and Mrs. Kamakaiwi of Pahoa, Hawaii, Mrs. Kama and Mrs. 
Supé of Kalapana, and Mrs. Julia Bowers of Honolulu. I wish also 
to express my thanks to those scholars in this country who have 
kindly helped me with their criticism—to Dr. Ashley Thorndike, 
Dr. W. W. Lawrence, Dr. A. C. L. Brown, and Dr. A. A. Golden- 
weiser. I am indebted also to Dr. Roland Dixon for bibliographical 
notes. Above all, thanks are due to Dr. Franz Boas, without whose 
wise and helpful enthusiasm this study would never have been 
undertaken. 
Marrua Warren Beck wirn. 
Corume1a UNIveERsITY, 
October, 1917. 
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