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bulges out for [want of] fish. This is also used as medicine for rubbing on the body, 

 if the disease be sores on the body or on the head. This was also used for lamp light 

 in the olden times. It is prepared by cracking the shell, leaving the kernel, which is 

 strung together on the midrib of a coconut leaf (segment). If a feast were held at 

 night in a house this kind of lamp was the light mostly used. It is prepared by 

 stringing four or five sticks, when they are bunched together and wrapped in ti-leaves 

 so that they would not burn out quickly. It is also made into oil by cooking it. When 

 done the shells are cracked and the kernel taken and thrown on a stone or w'ooden 

 board and a large block of wood is placed on top. This block is rolled all over [the 

 kernels] and the juice [obtained therefrom] is the oil.^ 



This is also used to obtain the hainauleo'' fish of Ewa; the shell is broken off, 

 leaving only the kernel ; this is placed in the clothes, or else in the container where said 

 fish would be placed when caught, or in any other thing. Proceed to where that fish 

 is generally caught, chew some of this kukui kernel, and blow it on the sea; the sea 

 would be smooth and oily, and that fish could be seen. So it is done when fishing for 

 squid; like catching clams. It is also used for torches at night, when fishing for eels. 

 These are the uses of the nut which I know about. 



CONCERNING THE SMOKE FROM THIS NUT. 



The soot from the smoke was used in tatuing on the arms. Here is the meth- 

 od of preparation : It is strung on sticks until each is full ; one is lighted, and is taken 

 and placed in a hollowed stone in such a way that the smoke would fill the hollow in 

 said stone; after a while the soot would adhere to the stone, when it is dug out and 

 placed in a container prepared for it; it is mixed with sugar-cane juice, and then 

 used for tatuing the arms. Those are the uses of the nut which 1 have obtained. 



CONCERNING THE SHELL. 



That is, the part immediately outside of the kernel. This thing was greatlv 

 valued by the old men and the old women in the olden times. When matches had not 

 come into use here in Hawaii, that is, the sulphur match, the old men and women used 

 to crack the nuts open, take out the kernel, leaving only the shells, gather them by the 

 fireside and burn them; it burns for a long time; it does not disappear quickly. That 

 is all the use of the sheir* which I have obtained. 



CONCERNING THE BARK. 



That is, the part enveloping the trunk. This thing was used a great deal by the 

 canoe builders. It was gathered, prepared and pounded, and its juice was mixed with 

 the ashes of the bulrush or cane-tops.' It was also spread on the blackboard so that 

 the writing would show. It was also used for printing kapa. 



*Kukui oil, from experience, is known to be a heavy "The writer omits to mention its use ornamentally, 



bodied, slow drying oil, very durable in painting, anii Tlic nuts, polished, are strung on a cord, or tape, and 



said to possess e.xcellent properties for varnish making. worn as a necklace. Young nuts furnish a mottled or 



Effort has been made of late to start kukui oil making plain brown lei, while the old nuts rival black ebony, 



as an industry but so far without success, owing to the It has use also in the manufacture of substitute jet 



uncertainty and high cost of labor. jewelry. 



"HaiiHiulco, lit., silent \oice. 'This furnished the black paint of Hawaii. 



