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Columbia River, and, after encountering 
much variety of weather, and many heavy 
baffling gales, anchored off Point de los 
Reyes on the 4th of November, and re- 
mained there till the 28th of the same 
month, our attempts to beat out of the 
Harbour of Sir Francis Drake having 
proved, several times, ineffectual. On the 
29th, I accompanied Mr. Finlayson in a 
small boat to Whaler’s Harbour, near the 
neck of the bay, which leads up to the hill 
of San Rafaele, the highest peak in the 
immediate vicinity of the port. We landed 
at Mr. Read’s farm-house, placed on the 
scite of an old Indian camp, where small 
mounds of marine shells bespeak the for- 
mer existence of numerous aboriginal 
tribes. A fine small rivulet of good water 
falls into the bay at this point. Returning 
the same afternoon, we cleared the Punta 
de los Reyes, on the 30th, and, descrying 
the mountain of St. Lucia, South of 
Montérey, at a distance of forty or fifty 
miles, steered southward for the Sandwich 
Islands. The island of Mauai was indis- 
tinctly seen, at sun-set, of the 21st of 
December, forty-two miles off; and, on the 
22nd, Woahu lay ten miles due West of 
us. Having quitted the Harbour of Fair 
Haven, in Woahu, on Friday, the 27th, in 
an American schooner, of sixty tons, she 
proved too light for the boisterous winds 
and heavy seas of these channels, and we 
were accordingly obliged to drop anchor 
in aina Roads, for the purpose of pro- 
curing more ballast. An American Mis- 
s 
ionary, Mr.Spaulding, having come on 
board, I accompanied him on shore, to 
visit the school, situated on the hill side, 
about five hundred feet from the shore, 
and returned to the ship at night. On 
Tuesday, the 31st of December, we stood 
in for the island of Hawaii, and saw Mouna 
Kuah very clearly, a few small stripes of 
snow lying only near its summit, which 
would seem to indicate an altitude inferior 
to that which has been commonly 
to this mountain, 
assigned 
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My object being to ascend and explore i 
Mouna Kuāh, as soonas possible, I started 
on the 7th January, 1834, and, after pass- 
MR. DOUGLAS’ VOYAGE FROM THE COLUMBIA TO THE 
ing for rather more than three miles 
plain country, commenced the asc 
which was however gradual, by entering - 
the wood. Here the scenery was truly 
beautiful. Large timber trees were covered. 
with creepers and species of Tillandsia, 
while the Tree Ferns gave a peculiar 
and dined at the Saw Mill, and made some 
barometrical observations, of which the 
result is recorded, along with those t| 
occupied my time daily during the voyage, — 
in my journal Above this spot t 
Banana no longer grows, but I obser 
above our knees. 
small huts, we passed an uncomfortat P 
night, as no dry wood could be obtained. 
for fuel, and it continued to rain wi | 
intermission. The next day we proceeded 
on our way at eight o'clock, the path be- 
coming worse and worse. The large 
Ferns, and other trees that shadowed 
proved no protection from the incessant 
rain, and I was drenched to the skin the 
whole day, besides repeatedly slipping 
into deep holes, full of soft mud. 9 
number of species of Filices is very g" 
and towards the upper end of the WO? 
lodge of the cattle-hunter was 
a mile and a-half farther up pe : 
flank of the mountain, situated on he 
