Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Polynesian Race, Vol. 2: Its Origins and Migrations and the Ancient History of the Hawahan People to the Times of Kamehameha I
In the present volume the author has endeavoured to present the ancient history of that branch of the Poly nesians which took up its abode on the Hawaiian Islands. In entering the wilderness of a hitherto untrodden field, and the almost impenetrable jungle of traditions, legends, genealogies, and chants, the author has had no easy task in reducing his materials to historical sequence, precision, and certainty. The difficulties he has had to contend with hardly any but Polynesian scholars can fully appre ciate, and how far he has succeeded he respectfully leaves to the Hawaiians themselves to decide.
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