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Platform No. 1. — Known to the natives as " Hanga Roa". Only the 

 base remains, measuring 59 feet long by 7 feet wide. This pile was 

 demolished to obtain material for the construction of a house for one of 

 the Catholic missionaries formerly stationed on the island. 



Platform No. 2. — Called "Ana Koiroraroa"; ICO feet long by 12£ feet 

 wide and 10 feet high. The facing-stones on thefront line remain intact, 

 but the body of the platform is a mere mass of loose stones, probably 

 torn up by the natives in recent years for the purpose of depositing 

 their dead in these ancient structures. The three statues that formerly 

 adorned this pile are lying immediately in the rear, and show from 

 their positions that they had faced inboard, with their backs to the 

 sea. These images are much weather-worn and defaced : one is entire; 

 another has the head lying close by, probably broken off in the fall ; 

 and the third is minus the head and with the neck showing saw-marks. 

 We afterwards found out that a French vessel of war visited the island 

 a few years ago and the head of this image was cut off by them and 

 taken to Europe. 



Platform No. 3 (See Fig. 17). — Called " Hanga Varevare"; 50 feet 

 long and 8 feet wide. This has the appearance of an unfinished pile 

 and is merely a burial place covered with loose rocks and without the 

 usual smoothly faced stones in front. We found the catacombs or 

 tombs underneath this platform had been robbed of the most ancient 

 skulls, and concluded that the Frenchmen had taken everything of 

 iuterest away. 



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 Hanga Varevabe. 



Platform No. 4.— Called "Tahai"; 100 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and 7 

 feet high. In a bad state of preservation, but the facing-stones on the 

 front are sufficiently plain, while the rest of the pile is a mass of loose 



