ce in Heiau A]

[Illustration: PLATE 41
a, Heiau B, on Molokai Island, looking northwest
b, Heiau B, showing stone-paved interior, looking northeast]

[Illustration: PLATE 42
a, The "Rain Heiau," Molokai Island, looking west
b, The "Rain Heiau," looking south]

[Illustration: PLATE 43
a, The "Rain Heiau," looking north
b, The "Rain Heiau," looking southwest]

[Illustration: PLATE 44
a, The "Sacrifice Stones" on Molokai Island; looking southwest
b, The "Sacrifice Stones," looking west]

[Illustration: PLATE 45
a, The "Sacrifice Stones," looking northwest
b, The "Sacrifice Stones," looking south]

As it now remains, this heiau consists of flat stones placed on edge
to make an inclosure 301/2 by 201/2 feet across the center, the length of
the walls being 271/2 feet on the north, 311/2 feet on the south, 19 feet
on the east, and 231/2 feet on the west. At the middle is a minor
inclosure, similarly formed, 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 8 inches,
longest north and south. This is a kind of "altar" or "praying place."
From it a narrow passage, 12 to 18 inches wide, extends to the middle
of each side. In each of the four divisions thus formed other stones
were placed to form box-like spaces of diverse shapes and dimensions
from 9 by 15 to 20 by 28 and 15 by 45 inches. All the stones were set
on the surface, braced against one another; no excavation was made to
hold them. They have been somewhat displaced so that the exact number
of the boxes can not now be ascertained, but there are somewhere
between 110 and 120 of them.

Partial views are shown in plates 42 and 43.

THE SACRIFICE STONES

On the south side of a ravine with steep slopes and bowlder-strewn
bottom, half a mile from the "Rain Heiau," is a pile of stones, most
of them the natural outcrop, but some of them intentionally placed.
The entire mass measures about 27 feet across each way. The highest
stone is a weather-worn slab, with the upper surface somewhat convex,
6 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 3 inches wide on the bottom, 1 foot 3
inches wide on top, 1 foot 4 inches thick. It lies nearly east and
west, the upper end on the ground, the lower end on a large bowlder,
beyond which it projects for 28 inches. Beneath this, with a space of
8 inches between them, is another stone, 5 feet long, 2 feet 4 inches
wide, and 10 inches thick. Its upper surface is concave, the entire
margin being higher than the central portion. It lies north