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with quagmires, exceedingly difficult to travel through, and in which 

 they frequently sunk up to their knees in mud and water. This 

 table-land was supposed to be upwards of twenty miles square. 

 Here the natives were inclined to turn back; but, as they afterwards 

 said, they considered themselves bound to proceed " on so unusual 

 an occasion." Their fears arose from the report that natives had 

 been lost in crossing by this path. At about 3 p. m., they reached 

 the Pah or precipice, which is like that of Oahu, having a very 

 abrupt, though not dangerous, descent. Many interesting plants 

 were gathered on this route, such as Ac^na, Daphne, Pelargonium, 

 Plantago, Drosera, with several interesting grasses. 



At the Pali they neglected to make observations with the sympie- 

 someter, but their impression was that the height was six or seven 

 hundred feet more than the situation of the half-way house, which 

 would give an altitude of about four thousand feet. Mr. Alexander 

 the missionary at Halelea, informed them that he had made it that 

 height by triangulation. 



The descent of the Pali was found to be very steep and fatiguincr; 

 but by slipping, tumbhng, scrambling, and swinging from tree to 

 tree, they reached the margin of the river Wainiha, at its foot. The 

 stream was m this place about six hundred feet above tide. They 

 were obliged to ford it ; and in consequence of the heavy rain of the day 

 before, it was so much swollen as to be almost impassable, the water 

 reaching to their breasts. This, together with floundering throuah 

 the taro-patches, as the darkness set in, made them consent to take 

 up their lodgings in a native hut. In the morning they passed down 

 the valley of Wainiha, which here forms a glen. The sides of the 

 mountains, that rise abruptly about fifteen hundred feet on each side 

 are covered with vegetation in every variety of tint, whilst the tutui 

 tree (Candle-nut), the bread-fruit, orange, banana, plantations of Brous- 

 sonetia papyrifera, and taro-beds, together with pandanus trees, whose 

 blossoms scent the air for miles, filled the valley with luxuriance. 

 This prolific vegetation, with numerous cascades falling over the per- 

 pendicular sides of the rock, combine to form one of°the most pic- 

 turesque scenes on this island. 



About noon they reached Halelea, most of the distance to which 

 was travelled along the sea-shore. On their way they crossed the 

 Lumahae, a river similar to the Wainiha, and running parallel with 

 It. The foot of the Pali is about five miles from the coast. 



The extensive sugar plantations, with a few neat cottages, with 



