Note 1 — PREFACE. (continued 2)

In the evening the adze was placed in the cloth, saying at the time to the god: “Here is the adze together with the cloth. Tomorrow will be obtained the timber for your house, ye god.” In the [following] early morning, all the people and the chiefs went up the mountain, no one remained; the men who had the adze which was wrapped in the white kapa (oloa), first cut the main posts1 and tied a strip of kapa around each; the rest of the timber of the house, i.e., the other posts, the rafters, the vertical and the other battens and the plates were brought down by the other people, and on that same day were the posts set and the house thatched. When completed the same crowd of people again went up the mountain, where a man would be killed. This man sacrificed on cutting down a tree to make idols was called haalelea; the people then returned from the mountain with leaves of the forest. They were covered all over with these shrubs. These things were heaped outside of the enclosure of the heiau where a large idol stood; where that rubbish was deposited was called a kuahu. The heiau was then sacred. Another man was then killed and placed on the lele (these were four long sticks which had been erected to form a square; the four sides were lashed with battens, also the top, and to this was tied the oloa in such a way that the kapa hung down loosely), together with a pig, coconut, banana and kapa.