[50]. The outermost of the three hillocks on the eastern volcano on which the Spaniards set up the crosses in 1770. Half of it has been worn away by coastal erosion (fig. 78).
[51]. The same word aku-aku was used for the spirit both of the living and the dead, or else the Tahitian “varua”; they were said to be equivalent.
[52]. Evidence on this head was rather contradictory, but no Miru could be found, male or female, to whom the title was not given.
[53]. “L’Ile de Paques,” M. Tépano Jaussen, Bulletin Géographique, 1893, p. 241.
[54]. Revue Maritime et Colonial, vol. xxxv, p. 109.
[55]. Thirty is, however, a very favourite number: cf. the folk-tales.
[56]. Sometimes called koho-rongo-rongo.
[57]. Sophora Toromiro.
[58]. An accurate large-scale plan of the village was made by Lieutenant D. R. Ritchie, R.N., and every house was measured and described by the Expedition.
[59]. Recollection is naturally clearer of the removal of the statue now at Washington, and particularly of the excellent food given to the natives who assisted. The figure is reported to have been taken from Ahu Apépé, an inland terrace not far from Rano Raraku, and been dragged down to the ship as she lay in La Pérouse Bay.