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superintendency gave the goods away to all the chiefs and to all the people. On the night 

 of Olc-kukahi, all the feather deities were worshiped, and in the morning the chiefs and 

 the people collected great quantities of food for their annual festival, and the people of the 

 whole country also made collection of food for their annual observance, and there was 

 plenty of intoxicants" for the chiefs and for the people from the back countries. On the 

 night of Ole-kiihia. was the worship of the wooden images. The priests prayed through- 

 out the night, and in the morning, the day of Ole-kuf'an (J^rd), the iiiakaliiki''' image 

 was decorated. This was a very sacred day. 



Due preparations were made by the women being arra}ed in skirts, and all the men 

 in fancy sashes. In the evening all the chiefs and all the people engaged in earnest pray- 

 ers. Pig oven fires were started here and there, and also fires for the dog ovens of the 

 women here and there. And in the night loud noises were heard in all directions, some 

 from azva drinkers, some from blaspheming men; the whole country greatly enjoyed 

 their annual festivity in this one night. In the middle of the night they all went in bath- 

 ing, which is called liiirwai. while the fires burned from all around. It was a great bath- 

 ing night for all the people. 



In the morning they all left the water, as it was then restricted to the deity Lono- 

 nuiakea. They then fastened on handsome *vaistcloths, and wore their fine garments, 

 while the men girded on their fancy sashes, making them this day handsome men and 

 graceful women. They went to their houses and enjoyed the fat things prepared by 

 themselves, of which they had an abundance these days. The idols were placed on the 

 outside, in the open place, and when the people saw them they exclaimed, "There is the 

 long god (akua-loa), and the short god (akua-poko)," and Kaloa-knkalii (24th) was the 

 day these were seen abroad. 



And the deity had decreed his law that man was prohibited not to kill ; war w-as 

 prohibited and no fighting; the ocean was prohibited, not a canoe was to sail; the kapa 

 block was prohibited and no cloth was to be beaten; the drum was prohibited to be 

 beaten; the horn was prohibited to be blown; the land was prohibited to be loosened; 

 the heaven was sacred to Lono; the thunder was sacred to Lono; the earth was sacred 

 to I,ono ; life was sacred to Lono ; the hills were sacred to Lono ; the mountains were sa- 

 cred to Lono ; the ocean was sacred to Lono ; the raging surf was sacred to Lono ; the family 

 was sacred to Lono; the sailing canoe was sacred to Lono. Thus the deity enumerated 

 his laws, which the chiefs and the priests and all the people duly observed. 



As the niakahiki deities were placed in the open, the produce of the land was 

 brought forth. The long god then started to make a circuit of the land in twenty and 

 three days, going on the righthand side, while the short god went on the left-hand side 

 in four da3'S. While the niakahiki deities were thus on their circuit the high priest occu- 

 pied the consecrated place, and was to be very sacred during the four days ; he was not 

 to look outside ; he was not to eat fresh food or fresh fish, and he had to close his eyes 

 whenever he went outside. 



And when the long god arrived at the king's place, the king prepared a meal for 



"A/cii ona of tlie original may be a clerical error for cant of old time, altliongli tliis latter was an alii's 



OHO, which would be natural in a variety of good beverage, 



savory things of a feast, as against a-wn the only into.xi- •'■Lono was the tiuikaliiki god. 



