Director's Annual Report. 9 
In field work two expeditions were made to Kahoolawe and 
en route Molokini was thoroughly explored. On the former island 
twelve days were spent in company with Mr. Forbes the first time 
and the island was explored as thoroughly as possible from the 
land side, and many remains of a former population were found. 
“While waiting at Lahaina for the steamer to return us to Hono- 
lulu, Mr. Forbes and I went to Honokahau and Kahakuloa and 
examined and photographed three groups of historic stones.’’ 
‘‘Preparations were made immediately on my return to Hono- 
lulu for a second expedition to Kahoolawe, and I left on the 
Kilauea for Lahaina in company with Mr. Perry of the Museum 
and Mr. Henry Jaeger, who kindly volunteered his services. We 
had the misfortune to lose our equipment through a fire in the hold 
of the Mikahala, but it was replaced as far as possible by pur- 
chases in Lahaina. Mr. Perry and I spent twenty-three days at 
Kahoolawe, but Mr. Jaeger had to return to Honolulu after a fort- 
night; he rendered most valuable aid.’’ 
The results of these expeditions were very satisfactory and 
will be published after another trip to the island. The most illu- 
minating information of the ancient fish-hook manufactures, and 
indeed of the former life of the Hawaiian fisherman was obtained. 
The excavations were conducted with the care used in excavating 
Pompeii: everything was passed over a quarter-inch sieve. The 
exhaustion of provisions and the appointed arrival of the launch 
to take the explorers back to Lahaina compelled them to leave 
much undone, although they brought many sacks of material to 
be picked over on their return. 
It was a grand opportunity to study ancient life in a place 
entirely out of the way of travel, and ‘‘among two thousand odd 
fish-hooks and files and two or three thousand other specimens 
there were but six objects of foreign introduction, viz.: one iron 
boat spike, iron nail hook, copper nail, two fragments of cloth 
and a piece of canvas, all found near the surface.’’ ‘The early 
voyagers tell of the great eagerness of Hawaiians to secure iron 
nails, which probably quickly replaced bone as a material for fish- 
