excessive use of _awa_."]

[Footnote 21: In the Hawaiian form of checkers, called _konane_, the
board, _papamu_, is a flat surface of stone or wood, of irregular shape,
marked with depressions if of stone, often by bone set in if of wood;
these depressions of no definite number, but arranged ordinarily at
right angles. The pieces are beach pebbles, coral for white, lava for
black. The smallest board in the museum collection holds 96, the
largest, of wood, 180 men. The board is set up, leaving one space empty,
and the game is played by jumping, the color remaining longest on the
board winning the game. _Konane_ was considered a pastime for chiefs and
was accompanied by reckless betting. An old native conducting me up a
valley in Kau district, Hawaii, pointed out a series of such evenly set
depressions on the flat rock floor of the valley and assured me that
this must once have been a chief's dwelling place.]

[Footnote 25: The _malo_ is a loin cloth 3 or 4 yards long and a foot
wide, one end of which passes between the legs and fastens in front. The
red _malo_ is the chief's badge, and his bodyguard, says Malo, wear the
girdle higher than common and belted tight as if ready for instant
service. Aiwohikupua evidently travels in disguise as the mere follower
of a chief.]

[Footnote 28: In Hawaiian warfare, the biggest boaster was the best man,
and to shame an antagonist by taunts was to score success. In the
ceremonial boxing contest at the Makahiki festivities for Lono, god of
the boxers, as described by Malo, the "reviling recitative" is part of
the program. In the story of _Kawelo_, when his antagonist, punning on
his grandfather's name of "cock," calls him a "mere chicken that
scratches after roaches," Kawelo's sense of disgrace is so keen that he
rolls down the hill for shame, but luckily bethinking himself that the
cock roosts higher than the chief (compare the Arab etiquette that
allows none higher than the king), and that out of its feathers, brushes
are made which sweep the chief's back, he returns to the charge with a
handsome retort which sends his antagonist in ignominious retreat. In
the story of Lono, when the nephews of the rival chiefs meet, a sparring
contest of wit is set up, depending on the fact that one is short and
fat, the other long and lanky, "A little shelf for the rats," jeers the
tall one. "Little like the smooth quoit that runs the full course,"
responds the short one, and retorts "Long and l