The original I have not been able to lay my hands on.

It gives a picturesque account of the Hawaiian people before they came into relations with foreigners.

It should be remembered by the reader that Mr.Remy is a Frenchman, and that his relations with the Roman Catholic missionaries somewhat colored his views of the labors of the American missionaries on the Islands.
The "contributions" in this translation of Mr.Brigham were privately printed by him some years ago, and the following note by him explains their origin.

It will be seen that Mr.Brigham translated the Mele, or chant of Kawelo, from the original.] One evening, in the month of March, 1853, I landed at Hoopuloa, on the western shore of Hawaii.

Among the many natives collected on the beach to bid me welcome and draw my canoe up over the sand, I noticed an old man of average size, remarkably developed chest, and whose hairs, apparently once flaxen, were hoary with age.