Chapter I: Front Matter

Our Little Hawaiian Cousin

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LIST OF TITLES

BY MARY HAZELTON WADE

(unless otherwise indicated)

=Our Little African Cousin=
=Our Little Alaskan Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Arabian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Armenian Cousin=
=Our Little Australian Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Brazilian Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Brown Cousin=
=Our Little Canadian Cousin=
By Elizabeth R. MacDonald
=Our Little Chinese Cousin=
By Isaac Taylor Headland
=Our Little Cuban Cousin=
=Our Little Dutch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Egyptian Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little English Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Eskimo Cousin=
=Our Little French Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little German Cousin=
=Our Little Greek Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Hawaiian Cousin=
=Our Little Hindu Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Indian Cousin=
=Our Little Irish Cousin=
=Our Little Italian Cousin=
=Our Little Japanese Cousin=
=Our Little Jewish Cousin=
=Our Little Korean Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike
=Our Little Mexican Cousin=
By Edward C. Butler
=Our Little Norwegian Cousin=
=Our Little Panama Cousin=
By H. Lee M. Pike
=Our Little Philippine Cousin=
=Our Little Porto Rican Cousin=
=Our Little Russian Cousin=
=Our Little Scotch Cousin=
By Blanche McManus
=Our Little Siamese Cousin=
=Our Little Spanish Cousin=
By Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
=Our Little Swedish Cousin=
By Claire M. Coburn
=Our Little Swiss Cousin=
=Our Little Turkish Cousin=

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Our Little Hawaiian Cousin

By Mary Hazelton Wade

_Illustrated by_
L. J. Bridgman

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
_PUBLISHERS_

_Copyright, 1902_

By L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

Published, June, 1902
Seventh Impression, May, 1909

Preface

FAR out in the broad island-dotted and island-fringed Pacific Ocean lies an island group known as the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands.

The brave voyager Captain Cook, who discovered these Hawaiian Islands, found living there a brown-skinned people, whose descendants live there to this day. Indeed, most of the island dwellers in the Pacific are of the brown race, which we know as one of the great divisions of the human family.

As the years passed by, the brown people living on the Hawaiian Islands came into closer relations with America. The islands are on the line of trade and travel between America and Asia. Our missionaries went there, and the people welcomed them gladly.

At length the time came when the Hawaiian Islands asked the greatest of the American nations, our United States, to receive them into her family; for they saw that they could not govern themselves as wisely alone as with her help. Thus these brown, childlike people came to be among the youngest of the adopted children of our nation.

Our government has accepted a great trust in undertaking to care for these people who are of a different race and who live far from our shores. We shall all of us feel much interest in seeing that our adopted brothers and sisters are treated kindly, wisely, and well. We shall not forget that, far apart as they are from us in distance and by race descent, they are yet our kindred. So we shall be doubly glad to meet and know our little Hawaiian cousin.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A HAPPY CHILD 9
II. AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN 17
III. SURF-RIDING 26
IV. QUARTERLY REVIEW 35
V. AUWAE'S SCHOOL 45
VI. LONG AGO 52
VII. THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN 59
VIII. THE DIVER 68
IX. STORIES OF OLDEN TIME 77
X. UP THE MOUNTAIN 85
XI. THE VOLCANO 92

List of Illustrations

PAGE
AUWAE _Frontispiece_
"IT IS A LOW BUILDING WHOSE SIDES AND HIGH
SLOPING ROOF ARE THATCHED WITH GRASSES" 13
"THE PARTY SIT ON THE GRASS IN A CIRCLE" 22
"AUWAE AND UPA DARED TO PEEP INSIDE" 41
"A LITTLE STREAM WHERE TWO WOMEN ARE WASHING" 47
"IT IS LIKE A LONG, GRAND TOBOGGAN SLIDE" 75

Our Little Hawaiian Cousin