Aku-aku [antikvár]

A\u-A\uIDetectives Off to the Endof the Worldi had no a\u-a\u.Nor did I know what an a\u-a\u was, so I could hardly have used one if I had had it.Every sensible person on Easter Island has an a\u-a\u. I too got one there, but at the moment I was organizing a voyage to that very place, so I did not possess one. Perhaps that was why arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.Easter Island is the loneliest inhabited place in the world. The near-est solid land the islanders can see is above, in the firmament, the moon and the planets. They have to travel farther than any other people to see that there really is land yet closer. Therefore, living nearest the stars, they know more names of stars than of towns and countries in our own world.On this remote island, east of the sun and west of the moon, man-kind once had one of its most curious ideas. No one knows who had it, and no one knows why. For it happened before Columbus led white