PAGE I. ON THE MAKALOA MAT 11 II. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 52 III. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 90 IV. SHIN-BONES 119 V. THE WATER BABY 158 VI. THE TEARS OF AH KIM 176 VII. THE KANAKA SURF 202 UNLIKE the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make-up or cunning concealment of time’s inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell who had been her husband for forty years, knew that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, d…
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