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care to have his quarry informed that his soul had been consumed. Convinced of this, 

 the credulous vi(5lini took to his mat, wasted away and died. So fixed was the belief in 

 this bewitching process among all classes of the Hawaiians that the utmost precau- 

 tions were taken to secure from any possible enemy these rejected bodily parts even of 

 the highest chiefs, who indeed would have the most enemies. 



The material in all cases, except No. 942, which is of coral sandstone, is a brown 

 compact lava closely allied to clinkstone, and one would incline to the belief that they 

 all came from the same place; evidently the same pattern has been iised. The more 

 prosaic uses of these fine cups my readers may imagine for themselves. It ma}- be of 



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interest to some to know the size of the Hawaiian stone cups, and as the usual scale 

 has Iwcn purposel}' omitted, the diameters are tabulated below. As on some of the 

 figures the numbers do not show, the measurements are given in their order beginning 

 with Fig. 56. 



FlCTJRK 56. 



356S. 6.6 in. 3569. 4,6 in. 2974. 4.7 in. 7760. 5.9 in. 



In many of the //n'aii or Iitakiiii were found lavers of considerable size cut from 

 stone but not elaborately worked. If a tolerably flat stone with a slightly concave sur- 

 face could be found this concavity was deepened by patient pounding and grinding 

 until a great, though shallow, bowl resulted of capacity sufficient for the washing of a 

 human body : and here were washed the victims for the sacrifices. On the abandon- 

 ment of the ancient system of worship in 1S19 many or most of these were broken up, 



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