244 Notice of Hawaii^ (Owyhee,) and its Volcanic Regions, &fc. 



Another water fall in the interior was reported by Mr. Goodrich 

 to be three hundred feet high. 



From the fine prismatic tints observed in the spray, the natives call 

 these water falls the cascades of the rainbow. Many old craters are 

 observed near the shore at this place. The truncated summit of the 

 highest is half a mile in circumference, and three or four hundred 

 feet in elevation. It is observed that the sides of the ruins next the 

 ocean, are the lowest, evincing that they disgorged in that direction. 

 There are fine views of the surrounding country from the summits 

 of the craters. 



Worship of the JS'atives. 



Early on the morning of the sabbath, a few of the islanders, wrap- 

 ped in their large mantles of various hues, appeared here and there, 

 issuing from the groves and hills ; and the numbers increased, till 

 crowds of both sexes, and all ages, formed an unceasing procession 

 towards their chapel, which, although an immense structure, capable 

 of containing many thousands, was entirely filled so that the naval 

 gentlemen found it very difficult to advance to the place assigned them 

 near the pulpit, without treading on the people who were sitting on 

 their feet on the matted floor, and presented almost a continued mass 

 of heads, over about nine thousand square feet, and crowds without 

 the door could not obtain admittance. Their appearance was in the 

 highest degree reverential and interested, although this is the most 

 obscure corner of the Island, and the people the least removed from 

 their primitive state, either in dress or manners. Only four years 

 before (Mr. Stewart observes) it was very difficult, even with the ex- 

 ample of some principal chiefs, and with the persuasion of the mis- 

 sionaries, to collect an audience of one hundred persons. 



We cannot enlarge on this topic, which, however interesting, is not 

 appropriate to this work, and will conclude these citations by adding, 

 that the natives refused to enter into any traffic with the seamen from 

 the ship on the sabbath, although they gave them watermelons and 

 bananas ; that their females uniformly withdrew from their approach, 

 and took refuge in their families ; that an entire moral change had 

 taken place ; instruction of every kind is eagerly sought; one hundred 



approaches as nearly as possible to the bottom of the cataract, and looks up through 

 the torrent, as it doubles over the barrier of rocks, it appears to him a mighty deluge 

 bursting from the heavens. ■ 



