Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note
The transcriber has corrected typographical errors from the original book, with the original text in tooltips marked by dotted underlines.
Sundry missing of damaged punctuation has been repaired.
This book contains Hawaiian words and some dialect ('sailor's cant/slang'; 'Hawaiian English'), which have been retained.
Examples:
"Caught plenty on 'em," said the sailor. "Been around the Horn and up in the Artic for sperm and right whales. Plenty of lay money too. Down in Wyhee (Oh-why-hee* = Hawaii) plenty of gals and bananas."
"the redmen to make their home near his hale and they should be aliis in ... ... sent his lunapais into every valley and along the sea to summon the alii...."
