Hawaiian idylls of love and death

The following stories are concerned mainly with incidents bearing on the career of the first sovereign of the Hawaiian archipelago, Kamehameha I, worthily distinguished from his...

The minstrels of the olden world were wont to sing of the marvels of Olifant, the magic horn of Roland, which that glorious paladin had won in battle from the giant Jatmund. All...

Such had been the patriotic advice of the priest Kaopulupulu, who had long stood near the throne of Oahu, a support to its kings, learned in the traditions of kingship and in th...

In these Kamehameha and his army had come hurriedly back from Molokai, whither he had gone after his great victory in Maui. The battle in the Iao valley, known as the “damming o...

Meanwhile Kalanikapule was not to be caught napping. The flower of his army was assembled on the south side of the island: watchmen were stationed on Makapuu, Koko Head and Leah...

Suddenly from the waters below him there seemed to come a voice mounting upward from a wraith of water. He looked below, and the vortex at his feet seemed to call him by name an...

But to-night there was no welcome, and Keoua’s heart sank. In his haste he waded through the taro-patch, instead of skirting the enclosure as usual. The child was there, he hear...