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and highly offensive, as also a large pig-fold, surrounded by a lava-wall, 

 and shaded with large bushes of Ricinus communis, altogether forming 

 an unsuitable station for making observations, to say nothing of the din 

 and bustle constantly going on when strangers are present, besides the 

 annoyance from fleas, I caused my tent to be pitched one hundred yards 

 behind the house. The chief would have been better pleased if I had 

 occupied his dwelling, but through Honori, I had this matter explained 

 to his satisfaction. He sent me a fowl, cooked on heated stones under- 

 ground, some baked Taro, and Sweet Potatoes, together with a calabash 

 full of delicious goat's-milk, poured through the husk of a Cocoa-nut in 

 lieu of a sieve. 



" As strangers rarely visit this part of the island, a crowd soon assembled 

 for the evening. The vegetation in this district can hardly be compared 

 with that of Hido, nor are the natives so industrious : they have no fish- 

 ponds, and cultivate little else than Taro, which they call Dry Taro, no 

 Bananas, and but little Sugar-cane or other vegetables. Flocks of goats 

 brouse over the hills, while fowls, turkeys, and pigs are numerous, and 

 occupy the same dwellings with their owners. 



" Honori, my guide, interpreter, purveyor, and, I may say, friend 

 (for in every department of his omnifarious capacity he is a good sort 

 of fellow), preached to-day, Sunday the 26th, in his own language, to 

 an assembly of both sexes, old and young, nearly two hundred in number, 

 both morning and evening. I did not see him, but from my tent-door 

 I could hear him in the School-house, a low small edifice, expounding 

 and exhorting with much warmth. Having made so bold afterwards as 

 to ask him where he took his text, he readily replied, that he ' chose no 

 text, but had taken occasion to say to the people a few good words con- 

 cerning Paul when at Rome.' He was evidently well pleased himself 

 with his sermon, and seemed to please his audience also. I visited the 

 school in the interval, when Honori had retired to compose his second 

 sermon, and found the assemblage under the direction of the chief, who 

 appears to be a good man, though far from an apt scholar ; they were 

 reading the second chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, and proceeded 

 to the third, reading verse and verse, all round. The females were by 

 far the most attentive, and proved themselves the readiest learners. 

 It is most gratifying to see, far beyond the pale of what is called civiliza- 

 tion, this proper sanctification of the Lord's Day, not only consisting in 

 a cessation from the ordinary duties, but in reading and reflecting upon 

 the purifying and consolatory doctrines of Christianity. The women 

 were all neatly dressed in the native fashion, except the chief's wife, 

 and some few others who wore very clean garments of calico. The hair 

 was either arranged in curls or braided on the temples, and adorned with 

 tortoise-shell combs of their own making, and chaplets of balsamic flowers, 

 the pea-flowering racemes of the Maurarii-Tree, and feathers, &c. The 

 men were all in the national attire, and looked tolerably well dressed, 

 except a few of the old gentlemen. 



" The schoolmaster, a little hump-backed man, about thirty years old, 

 little more than three feet high, with disproportionately long legs, and 



