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Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3)

Note 63 — PREFACE. (continued 5)

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When the canoe-hewing priest reached the koa tree which he had chosen to hew into a canoe, he must first look up to the branches of the tree so selected, and when he had noted the traveler’s branch,63 he would cut at the base and at the side of the tree bearing said traveler’s branch.

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