276 NARRATIVE or A JOURNEY 



lAth. — Yesterday we made Maui again, after having been 

 cruising around the islands at the mercy of contrary winds, since 

 Friday. Several of our passengers have been constantly sea- 

 sick, and our anticijmted pleasure has been thus very much les- 

 sened. 



When I rose this morning, we were off the pretty village of 

 Lahaina, and in about two hours after, we dropped our anchor 

 within half a mile. 



While the ship's people were engaged in discharging cargo, 

 Mr. Paty, (one of our passsengers,) and myself went ashore to 

 see the town. The village is one of the prettiest I have seen : 

 many of the houses are built of stone, handsomely whitewashed, 

 and, as at Honoruru, a very picturesque looking fort frowns upon 

 you as you approach the anchorage. These forts, although they 

 add greatly to the appearance of the harbors in which they are 

 situated, yet appear to me to be better calculated for show than, 

 service, as in case of an attack from the sea, they could not act 

 efficiently, not being provided with bastions; and in addition to 

 this, they are built l such a loose and unsubstantial manner, 

 that the very means of defence would be more fatal than even 

 the fire of an enemy. A cannonading from the fort, if long 

 persisted in, would almost certainly level the walls with the 

 ground. 



The houses, composing the village of Lahaina, are, many of them, 

 so obscured bycocoanut andkou trees, (Cordiasebestena,) that you 

 cannot see the whole of the town from any single point of view, 

 even from the offing. On a high hill, two miles back of the town, 

 stands another village, called Lakainaluna, (or upper Lahaina,) 

 composed entirely of white stone houses. It is here that the mission- 

 aries chiefly reside. The high school here is a large building 

 of stone, thatched with grass, and stands on an elevated piece of 

 ground, so as to be distinctly seen some miles out at sea. I 

 called, with Mr. Paty, upon Mr. Andrews, to whom I had a letter 



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