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In all there are over forty temple platforms on Necker, most of 
them in excellent shape, though perhaps untended by careful hands far 
hundreds of years* One in particular that had its floor, paved with a 
mosaic of beaoh worn pebbles, brought with considerable labor from the 
distant water's edge,was as smooth as though made a year ago* The time 
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and the oause for theirs* making are mysteries as yet unsolved* dome 
have considered these heiaus as remnants of some ancient culture that 
flourished among the people of a fanciful Pacific continent* Pacts, 
however, indicate otherwise since the implements from the lower caves, 
while slightly different from the stone tools of the historic Hawaiian 
are distinctively Polynesian in design, so that there is no need to 
oonjure up some strange unknown race as the former inhabitants of our 
island. We may, however, speculate on the personality of the men lohg 
dead, who labored here to do honor througi love or superstitious fear to 
unknown Deity. There is here no permanent water supply, nor are there 
food resources or sufficient spaoo for the support of permanent population. 
Obviously then worshippers oame he#e from a distance, perhaps from Nihoa 
perhaps from the formerly populous Napali oliffs of the island of Kauai, 
hay we suppose that here flourished a worship of gods who guided the 
first Polynesians in their long ocean journey from the south to Hawaii? 
A oult established in the remote period of insular isolation before 
renewed intercourse with the south had added the God Kane to the ancient 
trinity of Ku, Lono and Kanaloa, an ancient religion followed in later 
years by a few initiates who kept alive here- on this remote rook altar 
fires of a cult whose sacred name may have been Kaou . and so unknown to 
