Note 31 — PREFACE. (continued 7)

This was the deity which made the circuit of the island of Hawaii to completion. The body was of kauila wood, three fathoms long. A cross [piece] was affixed about its middle, and on the topmost end was fastened an ivory [ornament] with a girdle cloth about six yards in length. Whenever this deity made the circuit that was the time that the people paid their tributes31 with goods, swine, cloths, feathers. If the products of the land was small the deity was displeased and refused to go on. If the deity is delayed till the close of the day, that land is dispossessed and the overseership discontinued. Thus [the god] continues till the circuit of the island is complete.