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soldiers at his call. After killing his victims he extracted the long 

 arm and leg bones and planted them upright in the ground to 

 make a low palisade. Retribution overtook the bloodthirsty chief, 

 for when he had the fence completed, except for the bones of one 

 man, he died, and his bones were used to fill the gap." 



Lapakea is in the valley, about 500 feet away from the cliff. 

 Were all details known today, the two versions would probably be 

 found to fit together, except in regard to the bone "house". The 

 old man's story agrees with the last, except that he says that the 

 bones of two men were needed to complete the fence when Kalai- 

 koa died. He had seen the fence, and the following details were 

 gleaned on the spot : The fence was composed of the leg and arm 

 bones placed erect in the ground as close together as the fingers 

 when relaxed. They were not tied. There was a single line of 

 fence, making a square enclosure, one side of which was fifty feet 

 (paced). In this enclosure was a large stone platform on which 

 the grass house had stood, but there was no house standing when 

 he first saw the place. Well outside the enclosure, 60 feet to the 

 south, was a small house, built entirely of stone, into which the 

 remaining portions of the murdered bodies were put. He had seen 

 the bones there himself. The house was not an imu (underground 

 stoiiediued oven) but of proper house shape, large enough for the 

 body of a man. The road passed between this and the fence. 



This house the old man spoke of as a "heiau" dedicated to 

 the war god Kaili. It had walls three feet high and four feet wide, 

 with a pitched roof of stone and a door facing the bone fence. 

 Outside the door was a stone pavement, where the priests gathered. 



As pointed out, the Kaualua was in the laud of the same 

 name close to the boundary of Puu Kapu. The laud of Kaualua 

 is a small piece on the plateau about 600 feet wide between Puu 

 Kapu and Puu o Ma'o. The boundaries of the various small 

 sections were named for the writer's edification as they were 

 passed. The site of the Kaualua is now occupied by a well built 

 private road and was found at the place where the road passes over 

 a subway used as a cattle drive. 



The description given by Peter Corney' 5 in 1S18 of a bone 

 fence on Oahu, although not specifying the locality, is probably a 



I; Peter Corney, Early Northern Pacific Voyages. Edited by \Y. I). Alex- 

 ander. Pp. 114 and 115. Honolulu T. G. Thrum), 1896. 



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