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that size. At the northeast edge of the terrace a crevice in tne 
rock was followed for about eight feet but without finding evidence 
of use, and a trench on the platform 6 feet deep and 6 feet 
long revealed nothing. 
Excavation on the structure at the place marked on the map 
(fig. 3, F) disclosed a terrace with a front wall 25 feet long and 
5 feet 2 inches high at the middle. Position of the back boundary 
was not determined but it was at least 10 feet from the retaining 
wall. We trenched for about six feet in from the center and about 
six feet deep. The large stones prevented further work. A space 
for about 25 feet in front of the structure seems to have been 
formerly cleared of stone and may have had some connection 
with the use of the terrace. Two smooth beach pebbles found at 
Halalii are considered by Mr. Aitken to be sling stones. 
PA PUAA O PELE GROUP 
Fifteen yards east of Pa Puaa o Pele is a stone structure 9 
feet long and 5 feet wide. The Kaupo natives point this out 
as the grave of two men and a woman who scratched the sacred 
sands and were lost in the descending fog and perished. This 
legend did not seem plausible since the structure closely resembles 
the platform at the base of Naue and those on the lava flows. 
Excavating cleared our doubts, for it revealed no burial in or 
under the structure. It is quite likely that natives perished here 
but the story of their burial is probably an attempt to explain the 
existence of the structure. A slingstone was lodged in the corner 
of the structure and five others were scattered about it. There are 
about 50 ahus around Pa Puaa o Pele; none half as large as the 
burial ahu in Kamoa o Pele and some consisting of only three 
stones one on top of the other. 
On the slopes of Kaulupo is an ahu or a platform 7 feet 
square and 4 feet high. Near it are 15 very small piles of 
stones each about a foot high. 
HANAKAUHI GROUP 
Three platforms and two ahus in Hanakauhi Valley, a little 
pocket lying between Mamani and Kumu Hills, were examined 
by Mr. Aitken from whose report the descriptions are taken. ‘The 
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