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whose own cord is hidden here, claims that placing the cord out 
of danger of destruction protects the child from becoming a thief. 
It is difficult to see the connection as rats visit the caves; and 
besides, better protection could be obtained by hiding the cords in 
bottles and nearer the villages. The other explanation is from 
Dr. George Aiken, who at one time saw an old native throw a col- 
lection of navel strings into the Bottomless Pit, Kawilinau, ex- 
claiming, “To make the child strong”. There must be more sig- 
nificance to the custom. Probably these spots are sacred. The 
custom prevails also in the region of Mount Waialeale, Kauai. 
THE OO GROUP 
The uppermost cone on the Sliding Sands Trail contains a 
small but exceedingly steep crater filled with the debris of great 
rocks. Viewed from the trail no structures are visible but on the 
bottom of the crater are the three largest terraces that have so far 
been discovered. The smallest one, which banks the west slope, 
is 20% feet long at the front, 22 feet at the back, 1314 feet wide, 
and 4 feet 10 inches high...A terrace, 13 feet long, 7 feet wide, 
and 1 foot high, leads up to it. The next terrace in size is on the 
north slope and measures 22% feet long, 15 feet wide, 3 feet 
8 inches high. By far the largest is on the southeast slope. It is 
38 feet long, 22 feet wide, 6 feet high at its highest part. At the 
northeast corner is a depressed floor, 15 feet long, 10 feet wide, 
Betect= deep. | Dhis- last structure is. very much: in ruins: 
KEONEHEEHEE TRAIL, GROUP 
The original form of the east terraced platform of the Keo- 
neheehee group, north of Puu o Pele and on the south side of the 
trail, is recognizable. It resembles those in Hanakauhi Valley. It 
extends east and west 13 feet, is 4 feet wide at the east, 5 feet 9 
inches at the west end, and 13 inches high. ‘The other structure 
seems to have retained only two corners, 22 feet apart; it may not 
be a platform at all. 
On the Sliding Sands we picked up half of a water-worn 
stone, originally the size of an ostrich egg. On the Leleiwi Trail 
we found another stone this size, and many pebbles. 
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