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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 12 — CONTENTS (continued 7)

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Uma was a daring and very small midget, looking at his person (about two cubits and a half in height).12 He was very skillful in the art of bone-breaking, one of the principal things taught in Hawaii. During the time of Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaii, there was much robbery amongst the people, in lonely places, in ravines and in forests of tall timbers.

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