Note 196 — CONTENTS. (continued 4)

The second of these great things is the searching for the various parts of the house, i.e., the side posts, the rafters, the ridge-pole, the main posts, the plates, the battens, the sennit, and the lauhala or pili grass. If the house should have five spaces, there are six posts in the back and six in the front. The best wood to use for these posts is the ohia; for the battens, use the opiko,196 bambu, olomea,197 kawau, neneleau,198 akala,199 and the haukoii.200 Prepare two kinds of battens, however; the large as well as the small battens. The large battens are laid horizontally in the house, and the smaller battens are laid vertically and are called ahu-i.