Note 14 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

Supposing that the timbers for a house were cut and brought from the place where they were felled and left at the place intended for its erection, but the ground was found unsuitable, and the location thought to be appropriate had been passed when the timbers were on the way down, as for example: Nuuanu is the place where the timbers were cut; said timbers being brought down and left at the sugar refinery,14 that being the ground intended for the building of the house, but being judged unsuitable Peleula15 was chosen as the best location. If it was intended that the timbers be taken back to Peleula, then the diviner priest would say that the taking back of the timbers was improper, and for that reason the location was called “A hole for the sand crabs.”16 In a house erected under these circumstances none of the occupants thereof would remain alive, including the owners of the house and others who might dwell therein. The only thing to do was that if the material was brought in the manner above set forth, and it was thought that the location where the timber had been left was unsuitable, and the location was changed to Peleula, a location supposed to be favorable, then the timber should be taken back by way of Leleo to Liliha street, thence mountainward until Peleula on the seaward side was passed, thence to Kaalaa,17 thence again seaward to Peleula; then it would be well.