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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



merits the accompanying sketch. Four images were found, which had 

 been thrown down on their faces on the inboard side. These are in a 

 fair state of preservation. From this ruin we obtained skulls, obsidian 

 spear-beads, and stone tools. 



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DETAILS. 



Platform No. 10. — Called " Ahutepeu". Is in such a state of dilapida- 

 tion that it was impossible to obtain accurate measurements. Portions 

 of an image are here, but it looks as though others might have been 

 rolled over the edge of the cliff, which is only a few feet distant and 

 about 450 feet high, aud against the base of which the sea dashes in- 

 cessantly. 



Platform No. 11.— Called " Hanauakou". Central sections 48 feet long, 

 12 feet wide, and 9 feet high ; total length, with wings, 248 feet. This is 

 an exceedingly fine platform, and contains some remarkably large stones. 

 In the face of the main structure are huge blocks of igneous rock that 

 appear to have once been fashioned into faces and figures, but now so 

 destroyed by the action of the elements aud perhaps by the hand of the 

 iconoclast that the features can only be dimly traced. Hard work with 



