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There are times and places where the past becomes more vivid than the present, and the memory dominates the ear and eye; I found it so in the presence of the vestiges of Rome; I found it again in the city of refuge at Honaunau; and the strange, busy, and perilous existence of the old Hawaiian, the grinning idols of the heiau, the priestly murderers and the fleeting victim, rose before and mastered my imagination.