Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Past and Present of the Sandwich Islands: Being a Series of Lectures, to the First Congregational Church, San Francisco
Tar. Early history of the Pacific Islands will always be involved in obscurity. With no written language, the early inhabitants of those groups handed down no records of their times, except the songs of their bards. They built no pyramids. They left no hieroglyphics. In chants only one generation caught the stoq of the past from the lips of another, and so transmitted the great facts of their chiefs and tribes from age to age.
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