Note 3 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

Therefore I have prepared this record with the idea that it will be greatly beneficial to myself, my heirs and my people. This, however, is not the first of my traditional writings. I began writing a legend for this people in the month of August, A.D. 1844, and in A.D. 1862, in the month of July, on the 4th day, I completed another legend.3 But this is the most important of all records kept by me, because in this record the origin of these islands began to be known, also the discovery of this people; the great battles from the origin of this people down to Kamehameha—ninety-seven generations from Opuukahonua—said record being called “A Chronicle of Kings.”