They buried in their houses, or carried their bodies to grottoes dug in the solid rock.

More frequently they were deposited in natural caves, a kind of catacombs, where the corpses were preserved without putrefaction, drying like mummies.

It was a sacred duty to furnish food to the dead for several weeks.

Sometimes the remains were thrown into the boiling lava of the volcanoes, and this mode of sepulture was regarded as homage paid to the goddess Pele, who fed principally on human flesh.
THE STORY OF UMI; HIS BIRTH AND YOUTH.
Liloa reigned over the island of Hawaii.

In the course of one of his journeys through the province of Hamakua, he met a woman of the people named Akahikameainoa, who pleased him, and whose favors he claimed as supreme chief.
Akahikameainoa was then in her menses, so that the malo of the king was soiled with the discharge.