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like a hay-rick, particularly as until recently they 
never thought of making windows, and had only one 
aperture, which was the entrance. A large portion of 
theTower part of that end of the kalaa which faces the 
sea, is usually open. The houses of this kind were 
probably originally erected for the construction ani 
preservation of canoes, for which purpose they are 
still sometimes used, though frequently occupied as 
dwellings. In the common dwelling-house, the door is 
frequently on one side. In the old houses the doors 
are always low. Since foreigners have resided among 
them, and built houses with doors and windows, the 
natives have enlarged their doors, though there are yet 
but few that can be entered without stooping. Some 
of them also begin to think windows a convenience, 
but they by no means fall in with our ideas of uni¬ 
formity in the disposition of them. Sometimes we 
have seen a house forty or fifty feet long, with the door 
at one end, and a small window at the other, half way 
up to the top of the roof. Again, we have entered a 
house of equal dimensions, and in some parts of it we 
have seen an aperture wdthin a foot or a foot and a half 
of the floor, generally near their sleeping-places. This, 
as well as the other, they call a huka makani, (wand 
hole,) and assign as a reason for placing it in such a 
situation, that they sometimes find it close in their 
houses, and like to have the wind blow on them as they 
lie on their mats. 
The shell of the house being finished, they proceed 
to fit up the inside, which is soon accomplished, as 
they have neither partitions nor chambers, and, how¬ 
ever large the house may be, but one room and one 
floor. In preparing the latter, they sometimes level 
