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MAMANI GROIM' 



A group of eleven platforms that presented some types new 

 to us were discovered at the foot of Mamani Hill (Kalua Ma 

 mani). A small terraced platform rests on the west slope 01 

 Mamani where it joins the tioor of the Crater. It measures 

 I2}4 by 4^ feet, lies northeast and southwest, and is 1^/2 feet high 

 along the front. It is very similar to the lower terraces of the 

 north and south Hanakauhi platforms, and its dimensions are the 

 same as the east platform. 



Two hundred feet southwest from this platform is an un- 

 usual square structure, raised on a knoll. It is 4^^ feet on the 

 north, 6 feet on the south, 41^ feet on the east, and 6 feet on the 

 west. It is ij/4 feet high except on the east and south sides which 

 are a foot higher, forming a shelf 2 feet wide. 



One hundred and fifty feet west of this is an unimposing 

 structure of slabs from an aa lava flow, laid one upon the other 

 to a height of i^ feet in the form of a rectangle T,y2 feet by 7. 

 This and the structures described below lay on the sands at the 

 edge of an old lava flow issuing from Dante's Inferno. They 

 are oriented parallel to it — that is, northeast and southwest — and 

 extended in a line towards the northeast. 



The next structure, one hundred feet away, difi^ers markedly 

 from the others in having a T shape. The stem of the T is 3 feet 

 square and on the east joins, about in the middle, the platform, 

 which is 15 feet long by 5 feet wide and 2 feet high. A platform 

 130 feet farther on is 195^ feet long, 35^ feet wide, and 2 feet 

 high. 



Nine'y feet beyond this are two structures a few feet apart. 

 They are almost square, measuring 4 by 6 feet, and not more than 

 2 feet high. Several yards away from these is a platform 13 

 feet long, 3 feet wide, and i^/> feet high, which rests upon a solid 

 lava flow\ Ten yards from this platform is a miniature one, 

 2 by 3 feet, and i foot high. 



Two hundred feet south on a part of the same flow is an 

 area 6 feet square and less than a foot high, paved with stones. 

 We removed the stones to make sure that they concealed no crack 

 or opening in the lava. One hundred feet east on the verv e(\ge 



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