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were reading the second chapter of the 
Epistle to the Galatians, and proceeded to 
the third, reading verse and verse, all 
round. The females were by far the most 
attentive, and proved themselves the rea- 
diest learners. It is most gratifying to see, 
far beyond the pale of what is called civil- 
ization, this proper sanctification of the 
Lord's Day, not only consisting in a cessa- 
tion from the ordinary duties, but in read- 
ing and reflecting upon the purifying and 
consolatory doctrines of Christianity. The 
women were all neatly dressed in the na- 
tive fashion, except the chief's wife, and 
some few others who wore very clean gar- 
ments of calico. The hair was either ar- 
ranged in curls or braided on the temples, 
and adorned with tortoise-shell combs of 
their own making, and chaplets of balsamic 
flowers, the pea-flowering racemes of the 
Maurarii-Tree, and feathers, &c. The 
men were all in the national attire, and 
looked tolerably well dressed, except a few 
of the old gentlemen. : 
The schoolmaster, a little hump-backed 
man, about thirty years old, little more 
than three feet high, with disproportion- 
ately long legs, and having a most peculiar 
cast in his right eye, failed not to prompt 
and reprove his scholars when necessary, 
in a remarkably powerful tone of voice, 
which when he read, produced a trumpet- 
like sound, resembling the voice of a per- 
son bawling into a cask. 
Honori “ had the people called together” 
by the sound of a conch-shell, blown by a 
little imp of a lad, perched on a block of 
lava, in front of the school-house, when as 
in the morning, he “lectured” on the third 
chapter of St. John. The. congregation 
was thinner than in the morning, many 
who lived at a distance having retired to 
their homes. 
I spent the Monday (January the 27 th) 
in making observations and arranging mat- 
ters for returning to Mouna Roa: my men 
cooked a stock of Taro, and I purchased a 
fine large goat for their use. 
. Tuesday, January the 28th. I hired two 
guides, the elder of whom, a short stout 
man, was particularly recommended to me 
MR. DOUGLAS' VOYAGE FROM THE COLUMBIA TO THE 
by the chief for his knowledge of the 
mountain. By profession he is a bird- 
catcher, going in quest of that particular À 
kind of bird which furnishes the feathers 
of which the ancient cloaks, used by the | 
natives of these islands, are made. The 
other guide was a young man. Three vo- 
lunteers offered to accompany me; onea 
very stout, fat dame, apparently about - 
thirty, another not much more than half - 
that age, a really well-looking girl, tall and | 
athletic: but to the first, the bird-catcher — 
gave such an awful account of the perils — 
to be undergone, that both the females — 
finally declined the attempt, and only the - 
third person, a young man, went with me. - 
My original party of ten, besides Honori — 
and the two guides, set out at eight, with, 
as usual, a terrible array of Taro, calabashes - 
full of Poe, Sweet Potatoes, dry Poe tied 3 
up in Ti-leaves, and goat's flesh, each 3 
bearing a pole on his shoulder with a bun- 
dle at either end. Of their vegetable food, ; 
a Sandwich Islander cannot carry more 
than a week's consumption, besides what — 
he may pick up on the way. One, whose — 
office it was to convey five quires of papet — 
for me, was so strangely attired, in a dou- 3 
ble-milled grey great coat, with a pem : 
of still thicker materials above it, that he 
lamented to his companions that his e r 
was too great, and begged their help to ; 
iton his back. I had to show the fellow, i 
who was blind of one eye, the —— i 
bleness of his grumbling by hanging ©" — 
parcel, by the cord, on my little fing’ — 
He said, “ Ah! the stringer is SEMEL 
and walked off. Among my atte 
was one singular-looking 
stripling, who carried a smal 
way, 
struments, and trotted away, idi “ae 
ad been once — 
of white, and the lower of red sa 2 
Honori brought up the rear, with d gi 
telescope slung over his shoulder, uu 
umbrella, which, owing pru - 
asthmatic complaint, he never fails 
with him, both in fair si PE e 
We returned for about a peres val 
along the road that led to the 22 
