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small compartments which were to be left uncovered in order that 

 the raindrops, each of which was as large as a man's head, could 

 be caught and held in them, and burned. The rain would cease when 

 the first wizard learned that he was being circumvented. 



As it now remains, this heiau consists of flat stones placed on edge 

 to make an inclosure 30^ by 20| feet across the center, the length of 

 the walls being 27^ feet on the north, 31| feet on the south, 19 feet 

 on the east, and 23^ feet on the west. At the middle is a minor in- 

 closure, similarly formed, 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 8 inches, longest 

 north and south. This is a kind of " altar " or " praying place." 

 From it a narrow passage, 12 to 18 inches wide, extends to the middle 

 of each side. In each of the four divisions thus formed other stones 

 were placed to form box-like spaces of diverse shapes and dimensions 

 from 9 by 15 to 20 by 28 and 15 by 45 inches. All the stones were set 

 on the surface, braced against one another; no excavation was made 

 to hold them. They have been somewhat displaced so that the 

 exact number of the boxes can not now be ascertained, but there are 

 somewhere between 110 and 120 of them. 



Partial views are shown in plates 12 and 43. 



THE SACRIFICE STONES 



On the south side of a ravine with steep slopes and bowlder-strewn 

 bottom, half a mile from the " Kain Heiau,'' is a pile of stones, most 

 of them the natural outcrop, but some of them intentionally placed. 

 The entire mass measures about 27 feet across each way. The high- 

 est stone is a weather-worn slab, with the upper surface somewhat 

 convex, 6 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 3 inches wide on the bottom, 1 foot 

 3 inches wide on top, 1 foot 4 inches thick. It lies nearly east and 

 west, the upper end on the ground, the lower end on a large bowlder, 

 beyond which it projects for 28 inches. Beneath this, with a space 

 of 8 inches between them, is another stone, 5 feet long, 2 feet 4 inches 

 wide, and 10 inches thick. Its upper surface is concave, the entire 

 margin being higher than the central portion. It lies north and 

 south, the southern end being supported by three small superposed 

 slabs. 



These two are supposed to be sacrificial stones, on which victims 

 Avere extended at full length, face downward. In this position they 

 were easily slain by being decapitated or the neck or head being 

 broken with a club or a stone. That they were utilized for some defi- 

 nite purpose is evident from the fact that the projecting ends of both 

 have been broken off square, the spalls splitting back along the under- 

 surface. 



Views are given in plates 44 and 45. 



On the opposite slope of the ravine from the sacrifice stones are 

 two old dancing platforms, made by digging the earth down on the 



