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finished our meal, when two horsemen rode up, and dismounting 

 at the door, entered the house. Our visitors proved to be the 

 king and John Young, who had mounted their horses this morn- 

 ing for a cattle hunt on the hills, but hearing of the arrival of 

 the foreigners, had hastened to pay their respects to us , and as- 

 sure us of their protection. The king, and his train came a few 

 days since to this island, and propose remaining two or three weeks 

 longer ; his majesty's object appears to be to inspect the condition 

 of his people here, and to give them an opportunity of evincing 

 their loyalty and affection. He was so kind as to express much 

 interest for Mr. N. and myself, gave us one of his own body 

 servants for our attendant, while we remain, and promised that 

 in the afternoon he would send us some provisions. 



Shortly after the king left us, we were visited by the Rev. P. 

 J. Gulick,the missionary of this station, to whom I had a letter from 

 my kind friend, Mr. Deill, and after sitting half an hour, we ac- 

 companied him to his house, about a mile distant. 



This part of the island of Kauai exhibits no particularly in- 

 teresting features : from the beach to the mission station there is 

 a good road made by the natives over a gentle ascent of about 

 two miles, on each side of which taro patches, yam and maize 

 fields abound. Back from the ocean and at right angles with it, 

 are seen several ranges of long, high hills, with narrow valleys 

 between ; the hills are covered with low trees of Tu-tui and Pan- 

 danus, and the valleys with dense bushes, tall ferns, and broad 

 leaved bananas. 



The good missionary introduced us to his wife, a very intelli- 

 gent and agreeable woman, and to his three pretty children, and 

 we spent an hour with them very pleasantly. In the afternoon 

 we returned to our cottage near the beach, where we found a 

 native waiting for us with a hand cart filled with provisions of 

 various kinds, which he said the king had sent to us as a 

 present. There was a very large hog, three pigs, three or 



