. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. he crater. They are insolid pieces, varj^ng from fiveto seventy feet in height; someof the figures lying prostrateare twenty-seven feet long, andmeasure eight feet across thebreast. Yery much like the greatstatues at Thebes and Karnakin Egypt, said Fred. Yes, replied the Doctor, and one of these statues meas-ures twenty feet from the shoul-der to
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. he crater. They are insolid pieces, varj^ng from fiveto seventy feet in height; someof the figures lying prostrateare twenty-seven feet long, andmeasure eight feet across thebreast. Yery much like the greatstatues at Thebes and Karnakin Egypt, said Fred. Yes, replied the Doctor, and one of these statues meas-ures twenty feet from the shoul-der to the crown of the sculpture is extremely rude,and as works of art the EasterIsland statues bear no compari-son to the Eg3^ptian ones. Thehuman body is represented ter-minating at the hips, the headis flat, the top of the foreheadcut level so as to support acrown which was cut from redtufa found in one of the smallercraters. They were transportedto villages near the sea, andplaced upon stone platformsconstructed in various heightsand different lengths, facing thewater. One of these platformssupported thirteen immense im-ages, and all of those examinedcontained human bones, show-ing it to be a place of these platforms one hun-. 72 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. dred and thirteen have been Counted. On a precipice overlooking thesea is a village of ancient stone huts, where, it is said, the natives livedonly during a portion of the year. ]^ear by are also sculptured rocks,covered with curious and extremely interesting carvings. The platforms are from two to three hundred feet long, and aboutthirty feet high, built of hewn stones five or six feet long, and accurate-ly joined without cement. The platforms are at intervals all aroundthe coast, and some of the headlands were levelled off to form similarresting-places for the linages.
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