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for building a house during the day. After the frame is set up, the 

 people are placed in rows, and prayers are said. The idols were then 

 carried in procession, prayers said, and they were placed around. 

 The priest and chief exchange their wreaths of okea flowers, at 

 which time the people made sixteen exclamations ; the people then 

 eat, and finish the house afterwards, which is done with much cere- 

 mony. In the evening the high-priest arrived with three fowls, one 

 for the god, another for the king, and a third for himself If rain 

 fell during the night, they would conquer their enemies. 



On the fourth day, before it was light, the 'Aha' and 'Kaili' prayers 

 were said, at which time the priest brands the land that they are to 

 conquer. After this, the chief brings a hog, holding his snout, when 

 the priest again prays to the idol; the chief, repeating his " Amama," 

 (invocation) killed the hog. The priest cautiously asks the chief if 

 he heard any noise, or voice of a mouse, dog, or bird : if none, it 

 was a good omen. Then the chief and priest advance towards the 

 people, the former wearing a feather cloak, while the latter was 

 naked, who demanded of the people if they heard any noise; and 

 being answered in the negative, the priest then said the god had 

 declared they should eat of the fruit of the land of their enemies. At 

 night nine hogs are offered. 



The fifth day opens with prayer. The king or chief gives forty 

 hogs for each end of the temple. In the evening, the idol they had 

 hewn out of the tree was brought down to the temple, and placed in 

 front of the steps of the heiau. A large hole was then dug, and a 

 man sacrificed and placed in it ; on this the idol is put, and the earth 

 thrown in around it : the multitude now retire. The priest now de- 

 manded of the king three fowls — one for the god, another for the 

 king, and the third for himself The god's is devoured by his 

 keeper, while the king and priest feast on theirs, when they all go to 

 sleep, under the impression that some omen will occur. If rain, with 

 thunder and lightning, ensue, the omen is very favourable. 



Just before dawn, the feather god, Kaili, with a hog, is taken to the 

 new idol, where, on a signal being given, the king kills the hog with 

 a single blow; the priest strikes a few blows on the drum, which was 

 the signal that the ceremony was finished. After this, the taboo was 

 removed, when children might cry, the cocks crow, and crickets chii-p. 

 without danger ; then all the priests assemble within the heiau, and 

 prayed in concert till daylight, at which time the king makes the 

 "Amama." 



