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large stones near the bottom of the crater had ah-early been utiHzed 

 in the cons'^ruction of the other two platforms. 



The slightly larger south platform ( PI. XX, B ) is rectangu- 

 lar, measuring about 26 by 16 feet. Its height along the north 

 front is 2 feet, but the back is merely indicated by a single course 

 of stones. Across the platform is laid a row of small stones 

 making the northern end a nearly square enclosure. Our excava- 

 tion of this structure proved that the walls had not been trenched 

 or buried by sliding or drifting sands. The upper division had 

 been excavated to a depth of 2 feet by Mr. Aitken. We excavated 

 a pit 4 feet deep below the apparently undisturbed strata of cinders 

 in the lower division and sunk a trench along the front outside 

 wall, but discovered no shells, artifacts, nor skeletal material. 



The excavation of the east platform to a depth of 5 to 7 feet 

 below its surface and then under the walls gave us likewise 

 nothing. This platform is 12 feet along the bulging north side, 

 12 feet on the south, 15' 2 feet along the east, and 11 feet on the 

 west. The highest part of the surrounding wall is on the west 

 side, where it is 32 inches high. 



On a knoll at the southern foot of Xaue Cone is a small 

 platform. Its top is not flat like the others but curved up very 

 noticeably toward the south. This platform is 20 inches high, 

 4 feet wide and 11 feet long, extending east and west and is built 

 solid of local s'one on lava bedrock. We discovered this fact by 

 taking down the structure, restoring it again immediatelv as we 

 were always careful to do. X^ear this platform we picked up four 

 water-worn pebbles the size of a large egg. 



BURIAL AHU IX KAMOA O PELE 



Ten minutes' walk across the sands southwest of Pun Xaue 

 brings one to the low break in the wall of Kamoa o Pele, a cinder 

 cone, colored an eveti, soft red. On the floor of its crater is an 

 ahu.-^ (PI. XXI. A.) 



^ Ahii as the term is used in this paper is a cairn built for some pur- 

 pose by Hawaiians. In Polynesia the word ahu signifies heap, or pile, and 

 was often used to designate a stone memorial pile. 



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