. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. luTiiy Ii(rnsri>ni7fiif{if\ 81 equal cliinctisioiis, and in some parts of it we have seen an afierttire within a foot or a foot niid u half oi the floor, generall}' near their sleeping plaees. This as well as tlie other, they eall a ln(ka niakanJ (witul hole), antl assign as a for i>lacing il in sncli a .sitnatirjti. that they sometimes find it close in their honses, and, like to liave tlie wind lihjw on them as they lie on their nnits. Idle sliell oC the house b
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. luTiiy Ii(rnsri>ni7fiif{if\ 81 equal cliinctisioiis, and in some parts of it we have seen an afierttire within a foot or a foot niid u half oi the floor, generall}' near their sleeping plaees. This as well as tlie other, they eall a ln(ka niakanJ (witul hole), antl assign as a for i>lacing il in sncli a .sitnatirjti. that they sometimes find it close in their honses, and, like to liave tlie wind lihjw on them as they lie on their nnits. Idle sliell oC the house being: finished, they proceed to fit np the inside, which is soon accoin^^ plislied, as they have neitlier |->artitions nor chambers, and, however large tlie honse nuiy he. Init one room and one floor. In prepariug the latter, tliey sometimes level the groiUHh and spreail grass over it, which tlie)- cover with large nnits made of the lea\-es of the pamlanns. lint the best floors are those formed with i>e!)bles, or small fragments of lava, which arc alwa\'S drv, am! less likel\^ to be infested with vermin than covered witli I'-k;. 67. iiAKAKAi; Vim .si\si>jcxmNi; CAi,Air\, The ,sizc ami qnality of a dwelling varies according In the rank and means ol its poss those of the poor people l>eing mere huts, eight or ten feet sqnare. others twenty feet long, an or twelve feet wide, while the of the chiefs are from f(jrty to ,sc\^cnpv feet long. Their 1' are generally separate from each other: even in their most popnlous villages, however no, houses may be, they are alwavs distinct Ijuildings. Although there are professed h(nise^s:arp« who excel in framing, and others who arc taught to fiuish the corners of the house and ridge roof, which but few , yet, in general, every num erects his own Inaise. If it 1 middling or large size, this, to an individnal or a family, is a foruiidable nnderlakiug, as thr-\ to cut down the trees in the ui
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