. Legends of old Honolulu . ime of this temple, the school of the priests of Oahuhad its headquarters for centuries. The walls ofthe temple were adorned all around with headsof men offered in sacrifice. Kou was probably the most noted konane(or checker) board place on Oahu. There was afamous large stone almost opposite the site ofthe temple. Here the chiefs gathered for manya game. Property and even lives were freelygambled away. The Spreckels Building coversthe site of this famous gambling resort. One of the finest Ulu-maika places on theislands was the one belonging to Kou. Thi
. Legends of old Honolulu . ime of this temple, the school of the priests of Oahuhad its headquarters for centuries. The walls ofthe temple were adorned all around with headsof men offered in sacrifice. Kou was probably the most noted konane(or checker) board place on Oahu. There was afamous large stone almost opposite the site ofthe temple. Here the chiefs gathered for manya game. Property and even lives were freelygambled away. The Spreckels Building coversthe site of this famous gambling resort. One of the finest Ulu-maika places on theislands was the one belonging to Kou. This wasa hard, smooth track about twelve feet wideextending from the corner on Merchant andFort Streets now occupied by the Bank ofHawaii along the seaward side of Merchant LEGENDARY PLACES IN HONOLULU 9 Street to the place beyond Nuuanu Avenueknown as the old iron works at Ula-ko-heo. Itwas used by the highest chiefs for rolHng thestone disc known as the maika stone. Kame-hameha I. is recorded as having used this lO LEGENDS OF HONOLULU IIWAKEA THE POLYNESIAN THE fountain source of the Mississippi hasbeen discovered and rediscovered. Theorigin of the Polynesian race has been a subjectfor discovery and rediscovery. The older theoryof Malay origin as set forth in the earlier ency-clopaedias is now recognized as untenable. TheMalays followed the Polynesians rather than pre-ceded them. The comparative study of Poly-nesian legends leads almost irresistibly to theconclusion that the Polynesians were Aryans,coming at least from India to Malasia and pos-sibly coming from Arabia, as Fornander ofHawaii so earnestly argues. It is now acceptedthat the Polynesians did not originate fromMalay parentage, and that they did occupy foran indefinite period the region around the SundaStraits from Java to the Molucca Islands, andalso that the greater portion of the Polynesianswas driven out from this region and scatteredover the Pacific in the early part of the ChristianEra. The legends
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