PREFACE. 



Now that this difficult and prolonged task has come to an end, I am glad to have the 

 opportunity of putting on record my sincere thanks to all my kind friends in the 

 Hawaiian Islands for the assistance that they have given me in various ways during 

 my collecting-trips in the different island districts. Unfortunately, since the occasion 

 of my first visit in 1887-88, some of them have died. His Majesty King Kalakaua is 

 no more — a talented man and the author of several valuable works, who took the 

 greatest interest in my researches and gave me (through his Chamberlain, the Hon. 

 C. P. Jankea) letters to several prominent natives in Hawaii. Mr. H. N. Greenwell 

 and Mr. Frank Spencer, of the same island, have also died, both of whom were residents 

 of over 40 years' standing and rendered me most valuable aid. As regards Oahu, 

 a most valued friend has been lost to Honolulu in the person of the late Judge R. F. 

 Bickerton, a son-in-law of Mr. Spencer's ; while Mr. Jesse Morehead is no more to be 

 seen on Lanai, and the news has just reached me of the sudden death on Maui of 

 Mr. Randal von Tempsky, by whom I was entertained not only on that island but also 

 on the adjacent and seldom visited one of Kahoolawe. 



To the Hon. C. R. Bishop, who has, since the occasion of my first visit, taken up his 

 residence in San Francisco, but whose princely gifts to Honolulu are to be seen in the 

 Bishop Museum and Schools, and who has taken the greatest interest in the researches 

 of my friend Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, I must express my gratitude for many acts of 

 kindness. To Mrs. Francis Sinclair — a member of the family of that name in Niihau 

 and Kauai, who have been kindness itself to me — herself well known by reason of her 

 beautifully illustrated book ' The Flora of the Hawaiian Islands '-—I must tender my 



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