This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the old home which it took him many generations to forget amid the pleasanter circumstances of his new world. We do not find in the ancient songs any glimpse of homesickness, and seldom are these songs tinged with darker shades Selection of Timber. - 83 43These haka or hakakau were often placed outside the house on the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the old home which it took him many generations to forget amid the pleasanter circumstances of his new world. We do not find in the ancient songs any glimpse of homesickness, and seldom are these songs tinged with darker shades Selection of Timber. - 83 43These haka or hakakau were often placed outside the house on the kahua or platform as may be seen in Plate XXVIII. Their common form is shown in Fig. 67. of flight from enemies44 or banishment, as often predicated of the immigrants by guessers at their origin. They lived on the shore and their little world was bounded by mauka (towards the mountain) and makai (towards the sea), and on that ground timber was neither abundant nor suited to housebuilding. They had planted Hau (Paritium tiliaceuni) and Kou (Cordia subcordata) for shade, and the Ulu (Breadfruit, Artocarpus incisa) and Niu (Coconut, Cocos nucifera) for food, but none of these is suited for building. The native shore vegetation in most of the Polynesian islands is scant and mean. Immigrant weeds have everywhere landed like the Polynesians themselves, but higher up the mountain slopes, as high as vegetation reaches are dense forests of very valuable trees, mainly of hard wood, and to these forests (nahelehele) the intending builder must go. In selecting a log for carving into an idol, of course priestly magic played its part, and dreams and omens directed the seeker; so the canoe builder trusted to his god, the friendly little elepaio (Chasiempis) to indicate a proper tree neither worm-eaten nor decayed, but I cannot say with certainty that any such supernatural intervention was required in the selection of the few sticks of limited size used in the framing of an Hawaiian house. The priest (kahuna), who, in the infancy of a people, always has...
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