Excerpt from History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands: Embracing Their Antiquities, Legends, Discovery by Europeans in the Sixteenth Century, Re-Discovery by Cook, With Their Civil, Religious, and Political History, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time This volume is in fulfilment of that pledge. In it, I have attempted to delineate that which came within my immediate observation, during a residence of four years on the Group. As a description of the familiar life Of a people, in a novel and interesting position, one which may with propriety be termed a state of transition from barbarism to civilization, it may attract the attention, and interest the sympa thies, Of readers of all classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.