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javelins, and slings, were usually suspended in some 
convenient part of every house, they armed with these, 
and soon joined the forces at the appointed rendezvous. 
When the people en masse were required, the Tua- 
haua was sent, whose office it was to bring every indi¬ 
vidual capable of bearing arms. Sometimes the UruoJci, 
another officer, was afterwards despatched; and if he 
found any lingering behind who ought to have been 
with the army, he cut or slit one of their ears, tied a 
rope round their body, and in this manner led them to 
the camp. To remain at home when summoned to the 
field, was considered so disgraceful, the circumstances 
attending detection so humiliating, and the mark of 
cowardice, with which it was punished, so indelible, 
that it was seldom necessary to send round the last- 
named officer. 
These messengers of war were sometimes called 
Here, a word which signifies to fly, probably from the 
rapidity with which they conveyed the orders of the 
chiefs. They generally travelled at a running pace, 
and, in cases of emergency, are reported to have gone 
round the island of Hawaii in eight or nine days; a 
distance which, including the circuitous route they 
would take to call at different villages, exceeds three 
hundred miles. 
When the different parties arrived at the place of 
rendezvous, the chief of the division or district, with 
some of inferior rank, waited on the king or command¬ 
ing chief, and reported the number of warriors they had 
brought. They then selected a spot for their encamp¬ 
ment, and erected their Hare-pai or Auoro , in which 
they abode till the army was collected. The former 
were small huts, built with cocoa-nut leaves, or boughs 
