. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Fence for tlie House. lOr part ill the worship, while wliole families, iiichuiiiig' pet dogs and pigs, rested on such mats, throiigli the long service, whicli lasted from nine or ten in the morning' until four ill the afternoon. The congregation of that earl\' Any has passed awn,)-, jjeople and missionar}', and I am perhaps the sole survivor, for the church is now mnti}- feet l)elow the surface of the sea from snl)sidcnce of the coast. It 1 rcmcml)cr rightly one of the Kailua
. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Natural history; Ethnology. Fence for tlie House. lOr part ill the worship, while wliole families, iiichuiiiig' pet dogs and pigs, rested on such mats, throiigli the long service, whicli lasted from nine or ten in the morning' until four ill the afternoon. The congregation of that earl\' Any has passed awn,)-, jjeople and missionar}', and I am perhaps the sole survivor, for the church is now mnti}- feet l)elow the surface of the sea from snl)sidcnce of the coast. It 1 rcmcml)cr rightly one of the Kailua churches on the same island had the same kind of floor as lale as i8tS<S. A fence around the house so close that the iuter\-euiug spa,ce coukl hardl\- he calked a vn,rd was an iuiportaut part oi a decent house. This was made of paliugs, cu- if the couiitrv afforded thcui, as was usually the case, stone laid in a low wall with. vie,. 87. OK ASS u,oes:i<: of 'ruj«: fookkr suirr. steps opposite the door. Befure descrihing the religions services necessary to the com- pletion of a respectable dwelling we may read the aec(unit Stewart gives of the building at Lahaina, Maui, of ilie hou,ses Keopuolani, the highest chief on the group, had ordered her uien to build for the missiouaries who had just arrived at the iskuids. Although it is much as already described in these pages, I quote it as confirudtig the previous account, and also fjecause forty-four years afterward I (M:cu|hed a room in the foreigndjuilt aud couifortable house that had taken the phice of the rude grass houses, and learned from the veu,erablc man, Dr. I). Baldwin, who then occupied the uiissioii j)reudses, much that has helped my later studies of Hawaiian things, v'^tewart writes (p. 18S): Tlie men tiegaii cliggiiig holes for the corner posts, making ea(-li house twenty-tlircc feel long and fifteen feet wide, with a space of fifteen feet t)etweeu tlieiii. Tlie posts are ahoul as thick as tlie [285I. Please not
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