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Maui. Thrum also has inforniatiou to the effect that the heiau 

 of Keeku was purported to have been built by Kamehameha I, 

 about two hundred j^ears after the time of Lono-ikaniakahiki. 



Malanui was the grandson of the last priest of the neighbor- 

 ing heiau of Kapuanoni and was the only man met on Hawaii 



Fig. Tg. 



who could then give any information on the details of a heiau. 

 He said that his knowledge was imparted to him by his grand- 

 father and father. I have no reason to doubt the man's sincerity, 

 as he was a Hawaiian of the old type, who neither drank nor 

 smoked and was highlv regarded by the other natives. On offer- 



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