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lecting that this drink is severely proliibited through the 

 Hawaiian archipelago by the missionaries, I was rather 

 surprised to learn there is no prohibition of the kind what- 

 ever either here or at Nine. The American carpenter was 

 very emphatic in his praise of the hardness of most of the 

 woods of Tutuila, which are very handsome. He gives the 

 name of iron-wood to the Toa {Acacia heterophylln,), 

 employed not long since by the natives for making their 

 spears, clubs, and tomahawks. We found at Braidwood's 

 another American, him whom I have mentioned above as a 

 blacksmith, and whom no one knows by any other name 

 than that of Sam. Both these men have been sailors in the 

 merchant service, and both are bachelors. Braidwood 

 suffers from asthma, and has a sickly look. He asserts that 

 the climate is very unwholesome for the whites, and says 

 that this season, which to me appears extremely damp, is 

 called the dry season, or winter. He requested me to shoot 

 a pig, which he desired to give the sailors who had come 

 to visit him. The pig was immediately committed to the 

 native oven, and I have reason to beheve that our men 

 found it very much to their liking. The village of Funga- 

 tele, situate about 400 yards from the sea, upon a soil 

 which is covered with broken stones, contains at the 

 utmost a dozen dwellings of tolerable size, each occupied by 

 a single family; they are of the same form as those 

 previously mentioned, and ai-e all paved within with small 

 stones covered with mats made of pandanus leaves. Our 

 appearance at Braidwood's attracted a good many of the 



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