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Table of Contents

Publisher’s foreword

Acknowledgments

1 A Hawaiian story of creation

2 Hawaiian origins and navigational skills

3 The Hawaiian canoe

4 The demi-god who fished up islands

5 Drifting islands of Hawaii

6 The little people of the night

7 Animal guardians of Hawaii

8 Dogs that did not bark

9 The humuhumunukunukuapua’a and other fish

10 The king of beasts in old Hawaii

11 Banana, breadfruit and pandanus

12 Poi: the Hawaiian staff of life

13 Cocus nucifera: the tree of life

14 Tree oddities of Hawaii

15 Temples and shrines of Hawaii

16 Waikiki and its kahuna stones

17 Black magic arts of the old kahuna

18 Desecration of the dead

19 The tattooists’ art in old Hawaii

20 Games and leisure in old Hawaii

21 Surfing on land and sea

22 Sacred hula of old Hawaii

23 Cockfighting as a sport

24 Abolition of sex discrimination

25 A challenge to the Fire Goddess Pele

26 The lovers’ half-flower

27 Featherwork of ruling chiefs

28 Whalers and Asian junks

29 How Captain Cook died a god

30 Ukulele and ‘ukeke

31 Kamehameha: Hawaii’s first king

32 The ancient art of petroglyphs

33 The first written Hawaiian

34 A way of escape in old Hawaii

35 Diamond Head: symbol of Hawaii

36 Oahu’s miraculous water system

37 A love marriage of princess and commoner

38 Hawaii and its many flowers

39 Famous literary visitors

40 Paniolo and the pa’u riders

41 Old Ironsides visits Honolulu

42 The upside-down falls of Nu’uanu valley

43 Skiing in Hawaii on real snow

44 The state bird is a goose

45 The candlenut tree

46 America’s only royal palace

47 Insignia of the 50th state

48 Two royal songwriters

49 Oahu’s most sacred burial place

50 The saga of Hawaii’s shipping lanes

51 The saga of air travel

52 Hawaii’s cosmopolitan people