La'ieikawai (Hawaiian Studies)

This is a modernized rendition of Martha Beckwith's 1919 translation of the romance of La'ieikawai, a story about the wooing of a young native chiefess of great beauty and high rank, her fall from grace, and her final deification among the gods. The story was serialized in Hawaiian in 1862-1863 in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa and published in book form in 1863.