As the years passed by, the brown people living on the Hawaiian Islands came into closer relations with America. The islands are on the line of trade and travel between America and Asia. Our missionaries went there, and the people welcomed them gladly. At length the time came when the Hawaiian Islands asked the greatest of the American nations, our United States, to receive them into her family; for they saw that they could not govern themselves as wisely alone as with her help. Thus these brown, childlike people came to be among the youngest of the adopted children of our nation. Our government has accepted a great trust in undertaking to care for these people who are of a different race and who live far from our shores. We shall all of us feel much interest in seeing that our adopted brothers and sisters are treated kindly, wisely, and well. We shall not forget that, far apart as they are from us in distance and by race descent, they are yet our kindred. So we shall be doubly glad to meet and know our little Hawaiian cousin. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A HAPPY CHILD 9 II. AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN 17 III. SURF-RIDING 26 IV. QUARTERLY REVIEW 35 V. AUWAE'S SCHOOL 45 VI. LONG AGO 52 VII. THE COMING OF THE WHITE MAN 59 VIII. THE DIVER 68 IX. STORIES OF OLDEN TIME 77 X. UP THE MOUNTAIN 85 XI. THE VOLCANO 92 List of Illustrations PAGE AUWAE _Frontispiece_ "IT IS A LOW BUILDING WHOSE SIDES AND HIGH SLOPING ROOF ARE THATCHED WITH GRASSES" 13 "THE PARTY SIT ON THE GRASS IN A CIRCLE" 22 "AUWAE AND UPA DARED TO PEEP INSIDE" 41 "A LITTLE STREAM WHERE TWO WOMEN ARE WASHING" 47 "IT IS LIKE A LONG, GRAND TOBOGGAN SLIDE" 75 Our Little Hawaiian Cousin CHAPTER I. A HAPPY CHILD. LITTLE Auwae is beautiful; but, better than that, much better, she has no thought of it herself. She sits in front of her low cottage home singing a soft sweet song, weaving a garland of scarlet flowers to adorn her head. As she carefully places each bud on the string, she looks up at the American flag floating in the breezes not far away. The schoolmaster of the village tells her it is in honour of George Washington, the greatest man of the United States; that if he had not lived, America would not be what she is to-day, and she might not have been able to give Hawaii the help needed when trouble came.