THE LANGUAGE OF HAWAII. 
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tions of the body during activity or repose, give abundant 
evidence of their love of imagery. 
Their vocabulary is exceedingly rich in terms relating to 
the sea, the sky, and the surf; their cloud terms might 
well rival in exhaustiveness the scientific nomenclature of 
the modern student of meteorology. 
Almost eveiy stick in a native house bears its special name. 
Each one of the six houses, that every well-to-do Hawaiian 
was supposed to have, before the advent of the whites, had its 
appropriate use and name. 
These were— 
1. The Heiau, where the idols were kept. 
2. The Mua, the eating-house for the husband. 
3. The Noa, or separate house for the wife. 
4. The Hale aina, or eating-house for the wife. 
5. The Kua , or the wife’s work-house. 
6. The Hale pea, or the hospital for the wife. 
To fully understand these arrangements we must bear in 
mind that during the reign of the tabu, men and women 
never ate together under any circumstances. The food of 
the husband could not be cooked in the same oven used by 
the wife, and pork and many kinds of fish were absolutely 
prohibited to females; but they could eat dog and fowl. 
The custom of applying a term connected with the posi¬ 
tion of the sun to designate a locality, common in other 
countries, finds usage in Hawaii. France has her Midi, Spain 
her Levante and Poniente, and the Kanakas their Kan. Kau 
means summer or warm season, and is used to designate the 
most southern province of Hawaii. In the first case we have 
the name of the hottest part of the day given to the territory, 
and in the latter the name of the hottest part of the year is 
so utilized. 
Seat of Moral Powers—Parallel Italian Expressions. —The 
Hawaiians supposed that each man had two souls. One died 
with the body, the other lived on as a ghost, and was known 
by strange squeaking or whistling sounds ( multi), like the 
