lding of a _heiau_, or temple, was a common means
of propitiating a deity and winning his help for a cause. Ellis records
(1825) that on the journey from Kailua to Kealakekua he passed at least
one _heiau_ to every half mile. The classic instance in Hawaiian history
is the building of the great temple of Puukohala at Kawaihae by
Kamehamaha, in order to propitiate his war god, and the tolling thither
of his rival, Keoua, to present as the first victim upon the altar, a
treachery which practically concluded the conquest of Hawaii. Malo (p.
210) describes the "days of consecration of the temple."]

[Footnote 14: The nights of Kane and of Lono follow each other on the
27th and 28th of the month and constitute the days of taboo for the god
Kane. Four such taboo seasons occur during the month, each lasting from
two to three days and dedicated to the gods Ku, Kanaloa, and Kane, and
to Hua at the time of full moon. The night Kukahi names the first night
of the taboo for Ku, the highest god of Hawaii.]

[Footnote 15: By _kahoaka_ the Hawaiians designate "the spirit or soul
of a person still living," in distinction from the _uhane_, which may be
the spirit of the dead. _Aka_ means shadow, likeness; _akaku_, that kind
of reflection in the mists which we call the "specter in the brocken."
_Hoakaku_ means "to have a vision," a power which seers possess. Since
the spirit may go abroad independently of the body, such romantic shifts
as the vision of a dream lover, so magically introduced into more
sophisticated romance, are attended with no difficulties of plausibility
to a Polynesian mind. It is in a dream that Halemano first sees the
beauty of Puna. In a Samoan story (Taylor, I, 98) the sisters catch the
image of their brother in a bottle and throw it upon the princess's
bathing pool. When the youth turns over at home, the image turns in the
water.]

[Footnote 16: The feathers of the _oo_ bird (_Moho nobilis_), with which
the princess's house is thatched, are the precious yellow feathers used
for the manufacture of cloaks for chiefs of rank. The _mamo_ (_Drepanis
pacifica_) yields feathers of a richer color, but so distributed that
they can not be plucked from the living bird. This bird is therefore
almost extinct in Hawaiian forests, while the _oo_ is fast recovering
itself under the present strict hunting laws. Among all the royal capes
preserved in the Bishop Museum, only one is made of the _mamo_
feathers.]

[Footnote 17: Th