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the same method of cooking, are still in use among the natives in 

 their villages. 



Views of this house site and of the fireplace, taken from various 

 directions, are shown in plates 38—40. 



Nearly north of the house site (A), at a distance of 91 feet, is the 

 similar structure (B). The ground on which this is built is 6 feet 

 lower than at (A). Its measurements are 23 by 24 feet outside, 13 

 by 18 feet inside, longest north and south. The entire interior is 

 paved. For a space of 8 feet from the north end the pavement is a 

 foot higher than in the south end. Beginning at the foot of the 

 south wall, on the outer side, and extending for 29 feet toward (A), 

 there is a closely laid stone pavement 10 feet wide at the wall and 

 gradually diminishing to a width of 5 feet; its termination is nearly 

 square, the slight curve being apparently not intentional. The 

 west edge of this pavement is in a straight line, the east edge being 

 curA'ed. 



Partial views are given in plate 41. 



Neither (A) nor (B) has any opening for a doorway, nor is 

 there any apparent method of easy entrance, though a slight plat- 

 form on the north side of (A) may have supported steps of wood. 



These walls, as in all other heavy structures observed, were made 

 by carefully laying up two rows of large stones at a little distance 

 apart and filling the space between them with stones of any conven- 

 ient size, thrown in at random. Timbers set in them formed the 

 skeleton structure of a house which was completed of poles and 

 smaller growth, the sides and roof being thatched. The weight of 

 the stones held the main timbers against the force of the wind even in 

 severe storms. 



The surface over hundreds of acres around these ruins is covered 

 with house sites, long straight rows of stones, and garden lots sur- 

 rounded by stone walls. Shop refuse, mostly chips and spalls from 

 adz malring, sea shells broken to extract the mollusks, coral for 

 abrading, adzes in all stages of finish, and many " olimaikis " 

 (chunkey stones) are found. A mile away is a chunkey yard or 

 bowling alley about 600 feet long on the crest of a ridge which over- 

 looks the ocean on both sides of the island. 



THE RAIN HEIAU 



A mile from the Cooke residence is a peculiar structure, said to 

 be the only one of its kind in the entire Hawaiian group. Native 

 tradition has it that " a long time ago " a rain wizard who was 

 angered by the people of this district sent such rains that everything 

 was on the point of being washed out to sea. Another wizard told 

 the people to make a heiau (temple, or sacred building) with many 



