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We found we had taken up our quarters in a plantation 

 belonging to our friend Teamotoo; and as that chief had 

 kindly requested, we now made the man he sent with us our 

 purveyor, who readily supplied us with every thing we wanted. 



At eight next morning the thermometer was 56°, and the 

 barometer stood at 28 in., which will give our height at this sta- 

 tion 1892 feet above the level of the sea. After breakfast, we 

 were entertained with the performance of a young girl who 

 danced in a small area before our door. She was assisted by 

 her father, who beat time on a small drum, and joined her now 

 and then in singing, in reciting, and sometimes in a brisk dia- 

 logue ; whilst she (encumbered as she was with a grotesque 

 dress) traversed the area with such measured paces and fasci- 

 nating movements, with such graceful attitudes, such ability 

 and animation of acting, so punctually timed, and so varied by 

 slow and quick transitions, as would have done credit to the 

 most expert attitudinarian, and far exceeded any thing of the 

 kind we had before seen at these islands. 



We were given to understand that this actress and her 

 father belonged to a party who strolled about the country 

 from village to village, and gained their livelihood by enter- 

 taining the inhabitants with their performances; and if we 

 might judge of her merit from the specimen we had just seen 

 of her acting, we think her possessed of natural powers to 

 entertain, even in a more refined society. 



After presenting this young girl with suitable presents of 

 beads, looking-glasses, scissors, tape, and other articles, we 

 descended through the plantations, collecting whatever flowers 

 and seeds their interesting banks produced, that we had not 

 before met with in our journey. Our adherents who had been 

 distinguished on the top of Wha-ra-rai, now wore their little 

 badges round their arms, and were the envied objects of every 

 group of the natives we passed. In the evening, we arrived 

 at a small village on the sea-side, a few miles to the northward 

 of Karakakooa, where we stopped for the night, and where I 

 observed the barometer at sun-set close to high-water mark, 

 when die mercury stood at SOan. 12 pts., and the thermometer 

 was at '74°. This height of the mercury in the barometer 

 coincides so nearly with what it was when we began our 

 ascent, that the observations made with it may be considered 

 as sufficiently accurate to give a general idea of our height at 

 the different stations, especially as no material changes of 

 weather happened during our excursion that were likely to 

 affect it. 



Next morning, we travelled over a dreary tract of rugged 

 lava and very uneven ground along shore, till we came to the 



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