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enemy. On the 29th, Ī visited the ruins, and took a 
sketch of one of the idols, which stood sixteen feet 
above the wall, was upwards of three feet in breadth, 
and had been carved out of a single tree. 
The above may be considered as a tolerable speci¬ 
men of the greater part of Hawaiian idols. The head 
has generally a most horrid appearance, the mouth 
being large and usually extended wide, exhibiting a 
