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be thrown, or rather bowled, and the old mclc often tell of fabnlons distances covered 

 b}' the ancient Hawaiian heroes. The second required more skill than strength to 

 drive the ulumaika between two upright sticks a few inches apart near the end of the 



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HAWAIIAN JIAiKA STONES. 



kahua, or thirty to forty yards from the bowler.* The third w^as rather a trial of the 

 ulu than of the players, as the stones were rolled against each other and the toughest 

 won the game for its owner. There is a famous kahua near Kalae on Molokai, where 

 I have seen hundreds of ulu so broken that the fragments were not worth carrying off. 

 The players trained carefully and became very strong and skilful. Pra(5lice began in 



* Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii by William Kllis, p. 187. Second edition. London, 1.S27. 



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