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The Ancient Hawaiian House. 



hooks and line also ; the smaller part was an umeke of wood and the cover, much larger, 

 of gourd: some choice ones were all of gourd and of small size. The common fishing 

 line container was a bottle gourd with a large neck capped with a small coconut shell. 

 (Plate XXXIII.) In these the fine olona lines were so carefully kept that it is no 

 wonder that one would last several generations of fishermen. 



The Alii had their canoes which were kept in the halau or canoe-house, but the 

 paddles were often a part of the house furniture, not infrequently forming decorative 

 devices with the spears which belonged to every chief. The common people often 



FIG. 175 UHI KAHIOLONA : SCRAPERS. 



made an old canoe a part of the house itself in placing it close to the side towards the 

 wind, the inner gunwale just under the thatch so that the drip of the rain would 

 flow in.'" It must be noted that some of the inland villages were apparently poorly 

 supplied with water, as the houses on the slopes above Mahukona, Hawaii, and we 

 know that in some cases the people brought water from springs far up the mountain. 

 Portlock and Dixon when anchored off Waikiki in 1786 watered their ships by carriers 

 with gourd containers filled at the upper streams ( Manoa, Makiki) . Captain Dixon says: 



Early iu the morning of the 2d [June, 1786] our Captains went on shore in order to find a 

 watering place, and procure acconnnodatious for the sick : they soon met with good water, but the 

 access to it was very difficult, occasioued by a reef of rocks which run almost the length of the bay, 



"To within a few years there existed at the side of the little bath-house over a steam crack near the Volcano 

 Mouse at Kilauea an old canoe used to catch the drip from the roof during the frequent rains. It had before that 

 served to collect rain water at some one of the native houses formerly in the vicinity of the crater. 



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