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concealed, striking it with a rod tipped with feathers.The side that guessed right the greater number of timeswon the game. The games called kilu and umewere always played at night, in an inclosure made forthe purpose, and were connected with many vile asso-ciations.*

Shooting mice with bow and arrows, pana iole, was agame played only by chiefs, and connected with religiousceremonies. Cock-fighting, too, was much practiced inancient times. Few of the games mentioned above wereever played without a wager.

The children had many games with strings, calledhei, similar to the English cat’s-cradle. They alsoplayed at walking on stilts, and at tossing and catchingpebbles, kimo, and at spinning tops made out of littlegourds, hu.

Music — the Ukeke. —The ancient Hawaiian instru-ments of music were very few and simple. The ukeke wasa strip of flexible wood or bamboo, mounted with twoor three strings of olona or of cocoanut fiber, which aresaid to have been tuned to the intervals of a second orfourth, and may be regarded as a primitive guitar.

Kiokio. —The kiokio was a small gourd pierced withthree holes: one to put against the nose to blow through,the other two for the fingers. The nose-flute, another formof it, was made of a joint of bamboo, with the nose-holeon one side, and two finger-holes near the other end.

Drums. —There were also several kinds of drums, asthe kaekeeke, made of a section of the hollowed trunkof a cocoanut tree, with one end covered with shark-skin;smaller drums made of cocoanut-shells, puniu, covered

* The kilu Itself was a small gourd of a peculiar shape, which was thrown at astick set up at a distance.