Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Pioneer Kanai Family: With References and Anecdotes of Early Honolulu Many are blessed with retentive memories, but as we advance milestone by milestone, our recollections become dimmed, and the shadow of declining years casts a vaporous web around us, and there we are - the once active mind, buoyed up by vigorous youth, is lessened in its scope of action; old Father Time with his scythe intervenes; our place is taken by the new generation, and we bow to the inevitable. On you, parents of the coming genera tion, there devolves a task of no ordinary matter. Get busy take into consideration the fact that in after years your children with data from the long ago will bless your foresight and memory, and acclaim. 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.