Note 164 — CONTENTS. (continued 4)

During the period when Hawaii was unenlightened, the people had already acquired the art of constructing canoes.164 They were able to construct canoes which reached ten fathoms,165 more or less, in length, and smaller canoes which reached from four to six fathoms in length. In depth, some of these canoes reached the armpit of a person when he stood inside of one of them. However, a common man was seldom seen in one of these large canoes, they were mostly used by the chiefs in the olden times. The depth of the smaller canoes is like that we see nowadays.