Note 1 — PREFACE. (continued 6)

A long shed is built with poles standing in rows in the manner of a stockade. It is six yards and over in width, and forty yards in length thatched with cane leaves and pili grass on the outside. The body of the kilu is a regular water-gourd and cut about the middle [lengthwise] of the gourd. It is worked to a good finish and spotted on the outside like a Niihau calabash. The lamp to illuminate the night is made of uki1 and uwiuwi,2 certain plants which grow on Hawaii and in other parts of this group.