244 Notice of Hawaii, (Owyhee,) and its Volcanic Regions, Se. 
- Another water fall in the interior was reported by Mr. Goodrich 
to be three hundred feet high. 
_ From the fine prismatic tints observed in the spray, the natives call 
these water falls the cascades of the rainbow. Many old craters are 
observed near the shore at this place. The truncated summit of the 
highest is half a mile in circumference, and three‘or four hundred 
feet in elevation. It is observed ‘that the sides of the ruins next the 
ocean, are the lowest, evincing that they disgorged in that direction. 
There are fine views of the surrounding country from the summits 
of the craters. 
nee Worship of the Natives. eh 
Early on the morning of the sabbath, a few of the islanders, wrap- 
ped in their large mantles of various hues, appeared here and there, 
issuing from the groves and hills; and the numbers increased, til 
1 found it very difficult to advance to the place assigned them 
near the pulpit, without treading on the people who were sitting 0 
their feet on the matted floor, and presented almost a continued mass 
of heads, over about nine thousand square feet, and crowds without 
the door could not obtain admittance. ‘Their appearance was in the 
highest degree reverential and interested, although this is the most 
obscure corner of the Island, and the people the least removed from 
their primitive state, either in’ dress or manners. Only four ye" 
before (Mr. Stewart observes) it was very difficult, even with the eX 
ample of some principal chiefs, and with the persuasion of the mis 
sionaries, to collect an audience of one hundred persons. 
~ We cannot enlarge on this topic, which, however interesting, 8 2° 
appropriate to this work, and will conclude these citations by adding, 
that the natives refused to enter into any traffic with the seamen from 
the ship on the sabbath, although they gave them watermelons and 
bananas ; that their females uniformly withdrew from their approach, 
and took refuge in their families; that an entire moral change a 
taken place; instruction of every kind is eagerly sought; one hundre 
sh pcp ee 
“approaches as nearly as possible to the bottom of the cataract, and looks up iat 
the torrent, as it doubles over the barrier of rocks, it appears to him a mighty O°" 
bursting from the heavens. 
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