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four togeter in. a quadrangle. These may have served to support storm 
bowls or may have been the supports of tables. On one of these platforms perhaps 
the site of a £eiau) there were two upright stones a foot across the face 
and four inches wide, two feet tall standing six inches apart. The platforms 
range from b X 6 feet to 10 x 15 feet in area. Some stand out boldly looking out 
across the valley toward the sea. Certain hill slopes here have been terraced 
withstone work for considerable areas to make bunches four feet wide and often 
many feet wide that seem to have been used for cultivations probably of sweet 
potatoes. . Along the two main ridges dividing the three main valleys are 
little stone enclosures that may have been heiaus or may have served as watch 
towers, fimal1 platforms overlooking the valley toward the sea, others with 
closed walls guarding temple secrets, terraced fields of sweet potato or 
taro with stalwart Hawaiians climbing up and down the slopes with here and there 
a lookout on a commanding point on watch o r schools of fish, caves drawn 
on the rock ledges below where a dozen men might seize them and waiting a 
favorable instant launch them in the surf. Such is the picture we may bring 
before the mind of ancientr.life in these valleys. 
Though some of the peoples may have been transient here the terraces for 
cultivation would indicate a considerable period of residence for some at least. 
The fair preservation of the walls would indicate that the valleys have been 
occupied within from JOO to 400 years. Water must have been a problem met 
perhaps by some method of Impounding the winter rains in the lower courses of 
the drainage valleys. Bird life in those days must have been confined to the 
patis save for petrels and terns that nested on the cliffs, the miller bird that 
hopped about in the clumps of bushes and other finches that came in friendly 
fashion about the houses. Now grass huts have disappeared and platforms and 
terraces aloke are masked by heavy growths of low bushes. The sea birds have 
