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For the first time I saw things I had only heard of, such as the pahoas, fashioned of whale-teeth and suspended by braided human hair, and worn on the breast only by the highest of rank. "There were tapes and mats of the rarest and oldest; capes and leis and helmets and cloaks, priceless all, except the too-ancient ones, of the feathers of the mamo, and of the iwi and the akakane and the o-o.
"At last," said they, sighing, "our bones are going to revive, akahi a ola na iwi." Then, addressing the slumbering man, "Are you, then, alone here?" " Yes," replied the young man; "Kaleihokuu is in the fields." "We are," added they, "the two old men of Waipio, come expressly to see the priest's foster-son."
The proverb says of this: Aole e nalo ana na iwi o ke 'lii kolohe; e nalo loa na iwi o ke 'lii maikai The bones of a bad chief do not disappear; those of a good chief are veiled from the eyes of all the world. The high chiefs, before death, made their most trusty attendants swear to conceal their bones so that no one could discover them.
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