“Such a mess of things! Carved gourds and calabashes, shell-scrapers, nets of _olona_ fibre, a junk of _iè-iè_ baskets, and fish-hooks of every bone and spoon of shell. Musical instruments of the forgotten days—_ukukes_ and nose flutes, and _kiokios_ which are likewise played with one unstoppered nostril. Taboo _poi_ bowls and finger bowls, left-handed adzes of the canoe gods, lava-cup lamps, stone mortars and pestles and _poi_-pounders. And adzes again, a myriad of them, beautiful ones, from an ounce in weight for the finer carving of idols to fifteen pounds for the felling of trees, and all with the sweetest handles I have ever beheld. “There were the _kaekeekes_—you know, our ancient drums, hollowed sections of the coconut tree, covered one end with shark-skin. The first _kaekeeke_ of all Hawaii Ahuna pointed out to me and told me the tale. It was manifestly most ancient. He was afraid to touch it for fear the age-rotted wood of it would crumble to dust, the ragged tatters of the shark-skin head of it still attached. ‘This is the very oldest and father of all our _kaekeekes_,’ Ahuna told me. ‘Kila, the son of Moikeha, brought it back from far Raiatea in the South Pacific. And it was Kila’s own son, Kahai, who made that same journey, and was gone ten years, and brought back with him from Tahiti the first breadfruit trees that sprouted and grew on Hawaiian soil.’ “And the bones and bones! The parcel-delivery array of them! Besides the small bundles of the long bones, there were full skeletons, _tapa_-wrapped, lying in one-man, and two- and three-man canoes of precious _koa_ wood, with curved outriggers of _wiliwili_ wood, and proper paddles to hand with the _io_-projection at the point simulating the continuance of the handle, as if, like a skewer, thrust through the flat length of the blade. And their war weapons were laid away by the sides of the lifeless bones that had wielded them—rusty old horse-pistols, derringers, pepper-boxes, five-barrelled fantastiques, Kentucky long riffles, muskets handled in trade by John Company and Hudson’s Bay, shark-tooth swords, wooden stabbing-knives, arrows and spears bone-headed of the fish and the pig and of man, and spears and arrows wooden-headed and fire-hardened.