[Roughing It Part 7. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookRoughing It Part 7. CHAPTER LXVIII 9/14
About twelve he was carried once more to the house for eating, into which his head entered, while his body was in the dwelling house immediately adjoining.
It should be remarked that this frequent carrying of a sick chief from one house to another resulted from the tabu system, then in force. There were at that time six houses (huts) connected with an establishment--one was for worship, one for the men to eat in, an eating house for the women, a house to sleep in, a house in which to manufacture kapa (native cloth) and one where, at certain intervals, the women might dwell in seclusion. "The sick was once more taken to his house, when he expired; this was at two o'clock, a circumstance from which Leleiohoku derived his name.
As he breathed his last, Kalaimoku came to the eating house to order those in it to go out.
There were two aged persons thus directed to depart; one went, the other remained on account of love to the King, by whom he had formerly been kindly sustained.
The children also were sent away.
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