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KE-ALOHI-LANI Frontispiece

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IMAGES of GODS at the HEIAU 12

FROM a TARO PATCH 28

KUKUI-TREES, Iao VALLEY, Mt. EEKE 50

A TRUSTY FISHERMAN 64

THE MISTY PALI, XUUANU 120

DANCING THE HULA 140

BREADFRUIT-TREES 160

A YOUNG CHIEF of HAWAII 188

THE HOME OF THE DRAGONS NEAR HILO 198

COCOANUTS 222

THE HOME OF KEWALU 230

Readers will have little difficulty in pronouncing names if they remember two rules:—

1. No syllable ends in a consonant, e.g., Ho-no-lu-lu, not Hon-o-lulu.

2. Give vowels the German sound rather than the English, e.g., "e" equals "a," and "i" equals "e," and "a" is sounded like "a" in "father."