. The story of Hawaii; . , which took the form of short musicallines, attention being given to the accent orrhythm of the last word; there was no rhymingor regular metre. They had poems in the formof religious chants—prayer or prophecy ; name-songs which were composed at the birth of achief, telling of the heroic deeds of his fore-fathers ; dirges for the dead, and love-songs. At Kalihi, a valley about two miles from thecity of Honolulu is a large free school fornatives which was endowed by C. R. Bishop,the American banker, from money left by hiswife, the Princess Bernice Pauahi, a noble-minde
. The story of Hawaii; . , which took the form of short musicallines, attention being given to the accent orrhythm of the last word; there was no rhymingor regular metre. They had poems in the formof religious chants—prayer or prophecy ; name-songs which were composed at the birth of achief, telling of the heroic deeds of his fore-fathers ; dirges for the dead, and love-songs. At Kalihi, a valley about two miles from thecity of Honolulu is a large free school fornatives which was endowed by C. R. Bishop,the American banker, from money left by hiswife, the Princess Bernice Pauahi, a noble-minded and most agreeable Hawaiian lady. Itwas to be used for the benefit of her people. In the centre of the numerous schoolbuildings stands a museum where are now tobe found, amongst many other curiosities, thearticles displayed in the accompanying photo-graph. This collection had belonged to theOueen-Dowager, wife of the late King Kala-kaua, and was for many years exhibited in aroom of the lolani palace in Honolulu. Most. Q < •z 55 Oh o < The Origin of the Hawaiians 83 noticeable in the picture are the beautifulkahilis, which stand round the room, many ofthem having quite a history of their own ; one,of pure white, was made expressly for thefuneral of the Princess Bernice Pauahi. These kahilis are in appearance rather like ahuge feather-duster, but they are formed withInfinite care by the Hawaiians from the feathersof rare birds, the long handles being made ofivory or tortoise-shell. Mrs. Judd, writing from Honolulu in 1828,telling of an excursion she made with herhusband on the mountains, gives some inte-resting details about these feather , the chief of Walluku, a district on theIsland of Maui, had Invited them to visit himand on their arrival welcomed them mostcordially. He had been one of the * savants in the train of the all-conquering Kamehamehaand was both an astronomer and a placed rows of stones to show them howplants were classified
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