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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER XIII
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A seventh pyramid was raised by his nobles and officers.

In the centre of these enormous piles of stone he built a temple, whose remains are still sufficiently perfect to enable one to restore the entire plan.

The whole of this vast monument is called, after the name of its builder, the Heaps of Umi--_Ahua Umi_.
Umi built another temple at the foot of Pohaku Hanalei, on the coast of Kona, called _Ahua Hanalei_.

A third temple was also erected by him on the flank of Mauna Kea, in the direction of Hilo, at the place called Puukeekee.

Traces of a temple built by the same king may also be recognized at Mauna Halepohaha, where are found the ruins of Umi's houses covered with a large block of lava.[17] They give Umi the name of King of the Mountains.


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