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Stroll into the Interior. Island Metropolis. 



Koa trees, in the borrowed terms of Words- 

 worth, 



A growth 



Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, 

 Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved. 



This barrier passed, there was a subsidence 

 and inclining of the island inward, and the path 

 went through a meadow of bulrushes, in time 

 of rain Hooded. The soil was a rich black loam. 

 Next came beds of wet kalo (Arum esculen- 

 tum), very luxuriant and large, beyond which 

 were the houses of the king and native mis- 

 sionary teachers, the chapel, school-house, and 

 principal settlement. These were prettily-made 

 buildings of kamanu posts, wattled between, 

 lined on both sides with a good coat of white- 

 washed plaster, and thatched on the roof with 

 grass. Being clustered tastefully together, they 

 make a very pleasing appearance outside. 



The chapel and house of the king were fur- 

 nished with flooring and settees. In the former 

 was a round pulpit, very much like those seen 

 in popish cathedrals, wherever is seen at all 

 what popery is by no means fond of the pul- 

 pit. They had been built Eleven years, it being 

 more than twenty, we were told, since the isl- 



