The Islanders of the Pacific Or the Children of the Sun
TheIslandersofthePacificOrtheChildrenoftheSun
ReginaldStJohnston
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Only in 1911 the late Mr. Humphrey Berkeley of Fiji reported the finding of some great morticed stone ruins, 250 feet long by 50 feet wide, in far off Fanning Island. CHAPTER XV STONE REMAINS (continued) LIKE all great stone buildings of ancient times lack of machinery in the Pacific was made up for by un- limited human labour. Slaves built the pyramids of Egypt, a whole nation was taken to make the great fortress of Cuzco in Peru. 1 Fornander was told by an old man who had actually helped in t...he building of the last great " heiau " at Hawaii that thousands of men from surrounding districts had been brought in and encamped on the hillsides, and that their feeding, work, and relaxation had all been carefully organized ; while " to ensure the help of the gods " human sacri- fices were made at frequent intervals ! In the same way, no doubt, the huge works in the Carolines were made by countless thousands of people, who once inhabited a land now but sparsely populated. One of the great buildings there was a many-chambered rectangular temple, and in the exact centre was a square vault known to this day as the " Chau-te- 1 In the time of the loth Inca, 4, 000 men quarried the stones, 6, 000 transported them on rollers for 15 miles to the building site, and 10, 000 more dressed and squared them as they arrived.
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