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PREFACE. 



The information contained in the following pages has been 

 exclusively obtained from Native sources by the Authoress, 

 who is herself a native Hawaiian lady. The treatise contains 

 a full account, believed to be complete, of the methods of 

 hshing in use among the Hawaiian Islanders, from the earliest 

 times of which there is any tradition, down to the present day. 

 The Authoress desires to acknowledge the assistance rendered 

 to her by the Rev. Dr. C. M. Hyde, Principal of North Pa- 

 cific Theological Institute, who furnished some of the infor- 

 mation concerning Torch-light fishing obtained by him from 

 his native pupils, 



The publication of this little work has been ordered by His 

 Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the belief that 

 it will form an interesting and useful adjunct to the Collection 

 of Fish and Fishing Implements forwarded by the Hawaiian 

 Government to the Great International Fisheries Exhibition 

 of London. 



Foreign Office, Honolulu, June 25th, 1883. 



