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small piece of metal. It is already defaced by curious experimenters, 

 and will probably be broken up some day in search of the " treasure " 

 inside, or to " see where the music comes from." 



For nearly a mile south of the heiau, covering the space between 

 the ocean cliff and a line approximately parallel to it a fourth of a 

 mile up the hill, are many inclosures and long walls. Low walls 

 surround spaces 10 to 15 feet across, filled level with earth, which 

 are either house sites or burial places. Some inclosures, still smaller, 

 with no break in the wall, are supposed to be graves; and graves 

 may also be marked by the many small piles of stones. Other stone 

 heaps, some straight, some crescent-shaped, from 10 to 20 feet long, 

 all the curved ones convex to the windward, were wind shelters. 

 Some of them are known to be made by modern hunters as blinds in 

 plover shooting. 



In at least two places are long parallel rows of large stones placed 

 singly, 1 foot to 3 feet apart, the rows separated by a space of from 

 4 to 6 feet. One set has a dozen or more rows. 



Inside of one of the inclosures, directly up the hill from the old 

 landing, is a large stone with an artificial depression of 2 gallons 

 capacity. It was intended as a mortar for pounding nuts. 



LAUPAHOEHOE 



An old lava flow has pushed out into the ocean in a shape some- 

 what resembling " a leaf floating on the water," which is the mean- 

 ing of the word. It forms a nearly level area of 12 or 13 acres, 

 only a few feet above tide. Toward the outer end are numerous 

 walls and inclosures, mostly in ruins and overgrown with trees and 

 bushes. Some of them are clearly modern; others are ancient. 

 Near the lighthouse are the remnants of a heiau ; only a part of its 

 walls can be traced. 



A wall 3 feet high, beginning at a large stone at one corner, 

 incloses a space 26 by 27 feet, outside measurement; the interior is 

 filled with earth and small stones to a level with the top of the 

 walls. At the end toward the ocean is a platform 20 feet wide, 

 terminating 50 feet from the sea. On this platform is a space 7 

 by 12 feet, outlined by large rocks. Halfway between the platform 

 and the water is a wall which may be recent. 



Near this inclosure is one hexagonal in outline, the walls 2 feet 

 high, and the space inside, 11 by 17 feet, filled with earth to a 

 foot above the top of the wall. 



On top of the bluff, 350 feet above tide level, is a heiau the west 

 wall of which was removed in making a deep cut for the railway. 

 The inside dimensions are 70 feet east and west, 115 feet north and 

 south. The interior area, originally irregular, was somewhat leveled, 



