Maid's AccoiDit of the Fnnn'/iiir. 



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kekalii wai. O ka wai kekalii mea e pono ai 

 ka paina aua, no na puna, a me ka wela o ka 

 paina ana. 



28. O ka ai, o ka ia, o ka paakai, a me ka 

 wai, o keia man mea ka mea e pono ai ko loko 

 o ke kanaka. 



29. O ka nilio mauo ko Hawaii nei mea e 

 ako ai e ka lauoho. Ua kapaia he niho ako 

 lauoho. E lioa ka niho mano ma ka laau a paa, 

 a pepelu mai a ka lauoho maluna o ka niho ma- 

 no, a uialalo o ka niho mano, alaila, o aku iniua 

 me heunmniu la ke ano, a i eha loa e puhipuhi 

 i ke ahi, oia ka lua o ka mea ako lauoho. 



30. O ka Hawaii nei aniani kahiko, he pa- 

 palaau, e anai a maikai, alaila, paele i ka hili, a 

 paele hou i ka lepo, a eleele a hou i ka wai, 

 alaila, nana aku, he wahi ike pohihi no, he 

 pohaku kekahi aniani, e anai a hou i ka wai, 

 alaila, nana aku. 



31. O ka launiu ko Hawaii nei peahi ka- 

 hiko, e ulana a palahalaha o ka loulu kekahi 

 peahi, he peahi maikai ia, e hanaia ke kumu i 

 ka aha. O keia mau mea uo na mea i pono ai 

 ko ka poe kahiko noho ana ma Hawaii nei. 

 (Aloha ina lakou !) 



the ground. This water was a good thing at 

 meals to jjrevent choking and to cool hot food. 



28. Vegetables and meat, salt, and fresh 

 water, all these things are necessarj- for the 

 inner man. 



29. A shark's tooth was used in Hawaii for 

 hair-cutting. IX \v9iSC9i\\e(\ 71 ilio-ako-lauoho. The 

 shark's tooth was fastened to a wooden handle; 

 the hair was doubled over the shark's tooth, 

 then this was pushed quickly forward while the 

 person shrank back with the pain ; some burned 

 it off with fire ; such was the second way of 

 hair-cutting. 



30. The ancient looking-glass of Hawaii 

 nei was of wood well polished, then dyed black 

 with bark, again d)'ed with mud and blackened 

 with water, then gazing at it a faint image ap- 

 pears. Stone carefully poli.shed was dipped in 

 water and then reflected the image. 



31 . The coconut leaf was the ancient fan of 

 Hawaii ; it was braided fiat ; the loulu was also 

 used ; a good fan was that, and the handle was 

 wound with coconut cord. Such were the pos- 

 sessions of the old-time people who dwelt in 

 Hawaii nei. Great pity for them ! 



Witli the native account as a text we may wander away to a consideration of 

 what these "belongings" really were, and we may either take the most primitive to 

 begin with and in our imagination build up little by little the necessary utensils of a 

 poor man's home, or we can collect all the things we know the Hawaiian used, stock 

 his house generously, and leave each reader to subtract what seems luxury from the 

 bare necessities of life with a primitive mau, or for the matter of that with a modern 

 poor man. I have chosen the latter procedure, and although I shall try to describe 

 all that a well-to-do man, a chief, one of the ali'i had in his home before the second advent 

 of the white man at the time of Captain Cook's visit, I will also indicate in some measure 

 what I believe the order of acquisition. L,et us limit ourselves to the belongings of 

 household life, reserving the worship, the food and amusements for other chapters. 



One thing will be very apparent, there was very little for exhibition or orna- 

 ment ; ever3'where utility reigned. There was no endeavor to harmonize the carpets 

 with the wall coverings, or the furniture with both. And yet that very thing was done 

 unconsciousl}^, for the mats that covered the stone, earthen or gravel floor matched 

 perfectly with the grass or hala leaf lining of the walls, and the dark gray of the stone 



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