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and covered with a pavement of cobblestones which were carried up 

 from the beach, as were many of the large stones in the wall. The 

 pavement has been torn up in cultivating the ground. The wall is 

 from 4 to 6 feet high inside. This is a little more than the original 

 height, as it was repaired and raised for use as a corral. Along 

 the outside of the north wall, at the west end, is a heavy wall which, 

 with the main wall, forms a " well," nearly filled with rocks. There 

 are no supporting platforms outside, but along the north and east 

 walls are revetments reaching halfway up the face. The southeast 

 corner is rounded and braced or buttressed. These forms of support 

 have been noticed in only one other place. There is a house site 

 within, at the northeast corner. On the wall, placed there in adding 

 to its height, were a broken taro pestle and a very dense siliceous 

 rock, of high specific gravity, and filled with olivines. It weighs 

 about 75 pounds. The ends have been chipped off to give it an 

 ellipsoidal form, otherwise the wave-worn surface is unworked, ex- 

 cept that one of its larger faces is rubbed smooth, almost polished, 

 by use as a grinding stone, for which pur^Dose it is excellently adapted 

 by reason of its unusual abrasive quality. 



MAUI ISLAND 



There are not many aboriginal structures on Maui, but among those 

 which can be found are some of extreme interest on account of their 

 size and complicated arrangement. 



KAUPO, OR MOKULAU 



A mile and a half from the coast at Kaupo, or Mokulau landing, at 

 the eastern end of the island, are two large heiaus. As it would have 

 required a week's time and a considerable outlay of money to reach 

 them, by reason of the distance and lack of roads, they were not 

 visited. 



WAILUKU 



At the mouth of the lao Valley, a mile north of Wailuku, is a sand 

 dune having a nearly level area of about an acre at each end, connected 

 by a curved ridge whose sharp crest is lowered about 20 feet by erosion. 

 On each extremity is a stone inclosure, with several walls on the 

 slopes below them except on the eastern side, toward the ocean. Here 

 a stream has encroached upon the bottom of the dune to such an ex- 

 tent that only a portion of the inclosure nearer town is still remain- 

 ing, one side and part of each end having fallen into the ravine. The 

 wall along the opposite, or western, side is buried in the sand, only 

 the highest stones still projecting. From the north wall a facing of 

 large stones extending down the surface of the dune for a vertical 



