at ease in his body, and if the
sickness proves fatal, the soul quits him never to return.[127]
According to another account, the Hawaiians held that every man had two
souls in his body, of which one never left him in life, while the other
went forth from time to time in dreams or ecstasy, but only to return to
its corporeal tabernacle. Sometimes a diviner would warn a man that he
had seen his dream-soul roaming about, and that perhaps it might never
come back, because a certain deity was angry with him. Upon that the
terrified owner of the soul would naturally engage the diviner to
recover his spiritual property by propitiating the angry deity with a
valuable offering.[128]

[127] A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, pp. 272 _sq._

[128] J. J. Jarves, _op. cit._ p. 39 note; A. Marcuse, _Die
Hawaiischen Inseln_, p. 105.

Sickness was commonly explained by the presence in the sufferer of an
evil spirit, who must be exorcised if the patient was to be restored to
health. For this purpose the services of a priest (_kahuna_) were
engaged, who by the recitation of a suitable incantation invited or
compelled the demon to declare through the mouth of the sick man why he
had entered into him, and on what terms he would consent to take his
departure. Sometimes, the demon was induced to perch on the head or
shoulders of one of the bystanders, and from that coign of vantage to
answer the interrogatory of the priest. But at other times he burrowed
so deep into the patient's body and held his tongue so obstinately, that
the priest had no alternative but to prick the sick man's body with
bamboo needles and to drop water into his eyes in order to drive out the
evil spirit.[129]

[129] A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, p. 269.

When all remedies had proved vain and death had followed, the bodies of
common people were buried in a crouching position. The upper part of the
body was raised; the face was bent forwards to meet the knees; the hands
were put under the hams and passed up between the knees; then head,
hands, and knees were bound together with cinnet or cord. Afterwards the
corpse was wrapt up in a coarse mat and interred on the first or second
day after death. But the corpses of chiefs and priests were not thus
doubled up; they were laid out straight, wrapt up in many folds of
native cloth, and buried in that posture. Priests were generally
committed to the earth within the precincts of the temple in