Note 210 — CONTENTS. (continued 4)

2. Always sleep in the middle210 of the house. The reason for this is the fear of death should a murderer stab with a stick from the outside. Then again, tie hogs outside of the house, so that if a robber came, the hogs would be affrighted and grunt, thus causing the persons inside the house to awaken. If there is a dog, it sleeps together [with persons in the house]. The reason for this is so that if a robber came into the house and choked the sleeper, then the dog would awaken and bite the evil-doer. That is how the Hawaiians became accustomed to sleeping together with dogs.