| Place of the chief Umi.

| +----------------------------------+------------------+ (18.) It does not seem improbable that a premature death removed the foreigner who could have given Umi the idea of an art until then unknown; and had the foreigner lived longer, these curious stones would have served to build an edifice of which the native architects knew not the proportions.
(19.) [The cities of Refuge were a remarkable feature of Hawaiian antiquity.

There were two of these _Pahonua_ on Hawaii.

The one at Honaunau, as measured by Rev.W.Ellis, was seven hundred and fifteen feet in length and four hundred and four feet wide.

Its walls were twelve feet high and fifteen feet thick, formerly surmounted by huge images, which stood four rods apart, on their whole circuit.