Show HEATHEN STATUES tin the Gigin tio mat cf of a but Kare loal ric rica Aill imort sun tun one of the object objects in bolog t to 0 easier bland wu to obtain fur for the n fine of the stone stat kica a tbt that were eald u t to unbound tharp the islands will certainly crt ialy never excite any interest from the world ai al large except that buirel iu irel bf hy wonder fill image images which were ma le 1 by the netiea a ct ce aprie ago aux I 1 ioui to see chete alie won wonder derot we mounted borcea a and rode across crew the until yc ltd the firt fint I 1 po callad imn whick ohp th st but y 64 br tiei hwi ill all fal filed 1 93 ov n th ahr v trea tre A a bip j s rii t 1 n I 1 hat pro profi mi c u bai bad ored icil ird them vii hould nit not be seau u all round them vre were kaleton kt leton of hu man tan beings it having been beem until within recant ear the custom of the Lia native tives to w jar jay their dead above ground gr und sod sud near the eta statues bues tues the 1 aro are of st ou varying ary in height from twenty to thil thirty feet built with correct ideas of sin ability and all situated along the coast and when the images were in place and crowned with red ahey h ey faced inland the images are tire but bucure ure wonderful objects of sotere t hen ben considering c f fur or what purpose aby were made and void the immense amount of labor t tint hatt louet have been expended up ii thern they were all cut from oid lava rock irom from quarrier qu qi arriea arries within the crat er era if the an I 1 after being fini blied they were t transported rau sported acra the country to the platform a U di distance in some inea if over airee three anile hut but how they did this it incomprehensible ai there are no eviden iceie to how that limber timber ever grew on the islands and some of if the statues are fifty feet in lenga a and nil upward upwards of thirty tone tons in wr ib i we experienc d little difficulty in moving our little one of three tons a distance dis tunce of one and a half we had bad the knowledge of m hedern appliance for moving heavy ho avy weights an ano worked a after a road was cleared tr for it opinions inns vary ae as for what these images were intended but it ie is not likely they were ever as the native natives of to dayrold day hold them in no reverence but it is likely th bluy were m ande de a monuments to coa me the dead |