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and at which the natives spend much of their time, arechiefly, the uru maita, the pake, the konane, and thebuhenehene. The two first are similar to each other intheir principles. The uru maita consists of the bowl-ing, by two individuals or parties, of a circular, flat, andhighly polished stone, two or three inches in diameter,and an inch thick, swelling with a slight convexity fromthe edges to the centre. The art consists in sendingthe stone, so as to pass between two short sticks drivenin the ground near to each other, at the greatest dis-tance ; or in the driving of one party by the other, bybowling the stone farthest.

In the pahe, short blunted darts, of very hard andhighly polished wood, from two to four feet long, areused in a similar manner, instead of the stone. Thekonane, is a kind of drafts, played with small black andwhite stones, on a board marked with a great numberof squares. It appears to be an intricate and tediousgame. The buhenehene, is on the principle of the child-ish amusement of hiding the slipper; and the art, onthe one side, consists in hiding a stone so adroitly, inthe full gaze of all present, under one of five loose bun-dles of native cloth, placed on the ground, between theparties for this purpose, as to lead to a mistake in theguess of the seeker for it; and on the other side, of soclose a watch of all the muscular motions of the arm,chest, and shoulder, in the individual secreting the stone,as to lead to a discovery of the withdrawing of the handfrom it, and thus to a knowledge of the tapa underwhich it lies. The two last games are played principallybv the chiefs, and in them, the single wagers of Riho-2 c 2