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four walls carefully and regularly laid up, the space within them 

 filled with large stones, and the surface leveled with beach pebbles. 

 It ends 4 feet within the wall next the sea, the top of this wall being 

 on a level with the bottom of the platform. At the south end is 

 another platform 40 feet east and west by 20 feet north and south, 

 abutting against the east and south walls. A step or terrace 6 feet 

 wide extends the full length of its north side. It has a less finished 

 aj^pearance than the platform at the north end. The central space, 

 between the two, is paved with large stones which apparently pass 

 under both platforms and extend from the foot of the east wall 

 nearly to the west wall, a slight ditch separating it from the latter. 

 The west wall stands below the top of the slope, and its outer face 

 is from 10 to 20 feet high, in three platforms each 8 feet wide. On the 

 slope below are several structures a few feet square formed by two 

 parallel rows of stones with a cross wall at the lower ends, the 

 cellar-like space thus inclosed being filled with pebbles to a level with 

 the top of the walls. 



From the northeast and northwest corners long walls extend north- 

 west and southwest toward the beach. Their outer ends are lost in 

 the thicket, 



EAST POINT DISTRICT 



From Kapoho southward to Kalapana and beyond many remains 

 are reported, but residents say they are of rather modern date, some 

 of them having been occupied since white people came into the 

 country to live. Lava flows of recent date have covered a few. 



NAPOOPOO 



The large heiau at which Captain Cook made his landing, and 

 where he allowed himself to be worshipped as a god, is about in its 

 original condition, having been repaired in recent years. When 

 Captain Cook attempted to seize the King as a prisoner, the natives 

 naturally rallied to the King's defense. A stone or other missile 

 struck Cook on the head. 



Early in the last century an old Hawaiian who as a small boy wit- 

 nessed the affray told Rev. Mr. Paris (as related by his daughter) 

 that if Cook had been the god he pretended to be, the blow would 

 not have hurt him; but when he fell with a loud groan the people 

 knew he was only a man like themselves and, enraged at the decep- 

 tion practiced on them, quickly made an end of him. 



HONAUNAU 



The wall of the City of Refuge is nearly intact, as is that of the 

 large heiau. Another heiau was destroyed by a tidal wave. The 

 place is now a public park. Stokes, of the Bishop Museum, has done 



