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Show Discovers Evidence of Old Hawaiian Culture Paved stone foot trails extending over the widest and rockiest stretches of lava, artificial fish ponds formed by building a barrier of rock across a narrow bay or cove, and playgrounds represented by prepared tracks down grassy slopes for sled coasting are among the accomplishments of a forgotten for-gotten culture found by W. M. Walker of the bureau of American ethnology on the almost deserted island of JIaui in the Hawaiian group. He also found sites of "30 altar places, usually on headlands overlooking overlook-ing the sea and oriented towards the ocean, which evidently had a prominent promi-nent place in the old religion. The largest of these was more than 400 feet long and had a terraced slope 50 feet high extending over the edge of the hill. Mu-.-h of this culture, es- pecially the paved trails, is attributed by the natives to the genius of a legendary leg-endary hero. The old chiefs, Mr. Walker found in his research carried on under the auspices of the Bishop museum of Honolulu, were buried in almost Inaccessible Inac-cessible cliffs where It is practically impossible to find their graves. |