ate in which they quitted their
bodies. The souls of those who died young, especially of those who fell
in battle, are hale and strong; whereas the souls of those who perished
of disease are sickly and weak, and weak, too, are the souls of such as
died in old age.[161]

[156] W. Ellis, _op. cit._ iv. 365 _sq._

[157] L. de Freycinet, _Voyage autour du Monde, Historique_, ii.
594.

[158] W. Ellis, _op. cit._ iv. 366; J. J. Jarves, _op. cit._ p.
38; A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, p. 262. Ellis gives
Miru as the form of the name, but the correct Hawaiian form is
Milu; for in the Hawaiian dialect the ordinary Polynesian R is
replaced by L. See E. Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative
Dictionary_, p. xxiii. In New Zealand and Mangaia the name Miru
was given to the goddess of hell or of the dead. See E. Tregear,
_op. cit._ pp. 243, 244, _s.v._ "Miru."

[159] E. Tregear, _Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary_, pp.
243 _sq._, _s.v._ "Miru."

[160] H. T. Cheever, _Life in the Sandwich Islands_ (London,
1851), p. 12; A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, pp. 264
_sqq._; A. Marcuse, _Die Hawaiischen Inseln_, p. 99.

[161] A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, p. 264.

There were three places in the islands from which the ghosts took their
departure for the other world. One was at the northern extremity of the
island of Hawaii; one was at the western end of Maui; and one was at the
southern point of Oahu.[162] According to one account, the ghosts on
their passage to Milu's subterranean realm went westward in the
direction of the setting sun, and either leaped from a rock into the sea
or vanished into a hole in the ground.[163]

[162] H. T. Cheever, _Life in the Sandwich Islands_, p. 12; A.
Marcuse, _Die Hawaiischen Inseln_, p. 99.

[163] A. Bastian, _Inselgruppen in Oceanien_, p. 265.

But before bidding a last farewell to earth, the soul of the deceased
was believed to linger for a time in the neighbourhood of the grave or
of the house. It had now become an _akua_ or divine spirit, but during
its stay on earth it was dreaded as an _akua-lapu_ or "terrifying
spirit," because it appeared to the living as a spectre or ghost. In
time, however, it grew weaker and weaker and gradually disappeared
altogether, like the other spirits (_akuas_). By that time it had found
a guide to show it the way to Milu's realm, from which there is