Our Little Hawaiian Cousin

Reproduction of the original: Our Little Hawaiian Cousin by Captain Mayne Reid

Our Little Hawaiian Cousin is a children's book by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade. Auwae is a Hawaiian girl who recounts her story of Hawaiian life in the early 20th century while describing local history, geography, culture, religion and mythology.

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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.

Reproduction of the original: Our Little Russian Cousin by Mary Hazelton Wade