Excerpt from Kalani of Oahu: An Historical Romance of Hawaii Bereft of such knowledge, the prehistoric past of a people of Polynesia becomes a period of dark ness to the physicist, unrayed by sufficient glim mer of light by which-to judge of the remote anterior conditions of their religious or social his tory, not to mention the ever-disputed point of their anthropophagy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.