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���string to be pulled in, it was customary to fill a little basket wit tain fern or grass and whirl it along the string. The strong tra< would speedily convey this ' messenger ' to the kites, which the descended to the earth. Children's kites were, and still are porized out of the leaves of the gigantic chestnut tree. Someti sees a boy (no longer grandfathers) flying a properly made kit

Wilkes ' says of the Kingsmill islanders, that their k made of pandanus-leaf, reduced to half its thickness, which it lighter than paper, and they are prettily shaped.

Codrington* says: "Kites, used in fishing in the Soloi ands and Santa Cruz, are used as toys in the Banks' islar New Hebrides, though not commonly of late years, have their season, being made and flown when the gard being cleared for planting. The kite is steadied by a lo tail, and a good one will fly and hover very well. The i in Banks' islands rea, in Lepers' island mala, an eagle."

52. Hoo-leupo-po : CUP AND BALL. — A ball (po-po) rr rags of kapa is tied by a cord fastened to the middle of about eight feet long, at the end of which a pocket (pa-i attached. The stick is grasped by the other end, and th< is to swing the ball and catch it in the pocket. Two < play. When one misses, the next takes a turn. The ms count is one hundred. There are two specimens in th< Museum, one with a kapa and the other with a cocoan Another (plate XII, /) is figured in the Ethnographic A tfa Pacific Islands, where it is described as consisting of wand of twisted leaf-ribs with a loop at the end. Plate shows a gourd musical instrument (probably a lover's i-pu ho-ki-o-ki-o) attached by a string ornamented with '■ feathers.

In Captain King's journal of Cook's voyage to the ocean,' he says that young Hawaiian children have a I amusement which shows no small degree of dexterity.

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