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APPENDIX. 



On the sixth day, the king presented a hog to each god, frequently 

 to the number of forty, and two to each priest, two of which were 

 placed in front of the new idol, with cocoa-nuts and bananas, where 

 they are left to putrefy. The king and priests then retired to the 

 " Nule-Pahu," where they prayed. At nightfall, one of the priests 

 went out in search of a fish called " olua," which is represented as a 

 fathom in length ; if this fish could not be found, a man, who had 

 broken the taboo, was hooked in the mouth, killed, and dragged to the 

 altar ; if the observance of the taboo had been very strict, and none was 

 found delinquent, a squirrel was substituted, and was offered to the 

 idol in like manner. If a man was sacrificed, the king took hold 

 of one of the feet of both the hog and man, and thus presented them 

 to the god, saying, " Here is my oflFering to you ; let me live ; let me 

 have the country I desire to conquer." They then all retire and 

 feast. A chief, called the " Turtle," then came forward, and prayed 

 with uplifted hands. If any one offended by making a noise, he was 

 instantly killed. The women afterwards brought their tax of tapa, 

 which is put into the fiftli house in the heiau. 



On the seventh day, they all bathed; after which they were all 

 clothed in new maro's from the tapa's, they then sat down in rows, 

 placing themselves in various attitudes, with the hands raised up or 

 placed on their shoulders, and each w^as obliged to remain in the 

 same attitude until the ceremony of prayer was concluded. After- 

 wards eighty hogs were distributed among the people. They then 

 repeat the "Aha" and the " Kaili," the prayers before spoken of; and 

 the favourite wife of the king then came with a hog and fine mat, 

 which she offered, with prayers and the " amama," and requested 

 that she might live and be preserved by the king. 



On the eighth day, the whole ceremony was finished, all the taboo 

 removed, and a general council of the chiefs held, as to the mode of 

 carrying on the war, when they went to conquer the land they had 

 sacrificed and prayed for. After the wars were ended, heiaus for 

 peace and the prosperity of the kingdom were built, to insure fertility 

 and plenty to the land. 



