History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c14.13

v1.c14.13

The outside was faced partly with hewn stones and partly with others, and these were placed in such a manner as to look very agreeable to the eye. Some of the hewn stones were 4 ft. 7 in. by 2 ft. 4 in., and 15 in. thick, and had been squared and polished with some sort of an edge tool. The east side was enclosed with a stone wall—a piece of ground, in form of a square, 360 ft. by 354 ft.—in this were growing several cypress trees and plantains. Round about this marae were several smaller ones all going to decay, and on the beach between them and the sea lay scattered up and down a great quantity of human bones. Not far from the great marae were two or three pretty large altars, where lay the skull bones of some hogs and dogs.”¹