THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 3S3 



Mariiii, who lias built a stone house, is to be recom- 

 mended to every body who visits the island Woa- 

 hoo. He has introduced many useful plants, to the 

 growth of which he pays attention, and is the only 

 one who possesses a tolerably large herd of oxen, 

 cows, and sheep. There are many oxen in the 

 interior of the island, brought many years ago by 

 Europeans ; they are said to increase very much, 

 but are now grown so wild, that people go into 

 the mountains to shoot them with muskets. A 

 naked islander every evening drives home JVTarini^s 

 herd, among which are several horses which he 

 has got from America. 



There has lived on this island, for above thirty 

 years, an Englishman of the name of Holmes, who 

 formerly occupied Kareimoku's place, and whose 

 honesty is generally known. As all the Euro- 

 peans who settle here marry native women, the 

 primitive race must one day be lost. My inten- 

 tion of going into the fort was frustrated by the 

 sentinel calling out to me the word taboo ! I 

 afterwards learnt that access is prohibited to all 

 strangers, particularly Europeans. Kareimoku al- 

 ways resides in the fort, which is not yet finished ; 

 and as they are not expert in the use of the can- 

 non, they have chosen for a commandant an Eng- 

 lishman, of the name of George Bekley (Berkley?), 

 who formerly served in a merchantman. The fort 

 itself is nothing mpre than a square, provided with 

 embrasures ; the walls are two fathoms high, made 



