80 KAUAIANDOAHU. 



There are only fourteen boys in the school : they look well, and are 

 neatly clothed ; but it is not thought to be doing well, for the natives 

 do not like the plan of having their children taken entirely from their 

 own control ; yet this is essential to sviccess. The boys all live within 

 Mr. Locke's enclosure, and are seldom out of his sight. Agriculture 

 is their principal employment, and some of them were seen to 

 yoke oxen and manage the plough with adroitness. They are also 

 taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, for wliich they evince great 

 fondness. Mr. Locke is enthusiastic in his undertaking, and well 

 deserves success, though I cannot but view the experiment as very 

 doubtful.* 



Here the party again divided, to explore the island of Oahu, on 

 their way to Honolulu. The district of Waialua stretches from the 

 most westerly cape, called Kaena, to Waimea, in the district of Koo- 

 laulo, on the northeast, and to Waianae on the southwest, a distance 

 along the coast of above twenty miles. Within this district are a 

 few bays for vessels not exceeding one hundred and fifty tons bur- 

 den; the best of these is Rawailoa. Those to the northeast are 

 Waimea, Haula, Kakaua, Moluilui, and Makua. Like all the rest of 

 the places, they are dependent on Honolulu, which is thirty miles 

 distant, for a market. A good road might very easily be constructed, 

 and very nearly level, on the plain that lies between the two high 

 mountain ranges which traverse the island from east to west. One 

 of these ranges is called Konahaunui, the other Kaala; the former 

 occupies the eastern end of the island, the latter the western. Both 

 are basaltic. It is remarked of these two ranges, that the soil and 

 growth of the plants are dissimilar; for instance, the kauwila, the 

 wiliwili, the haw, and the uhiuhi are found on the Kaala, and are 

 either not found, or only in a dwarfish state, on the Konahaunui; 

 whilst the acacia (koa), and the lehua, do not exist on the former, 

 though growing luxuriantly on the latter. 



Waialua lies at the foot of the Konahaunui range, on its western 

 slope, while the northern slope of Kaala nearly reaches it. Here 

 begins the plain before mentioned, which extends to Ewa, a distance 

 of about twenty miles. Part of the Waialua district is cultivated 

 by irrigation, and produces abundantly. Five considerable streams 



* Since leaving the island, I have learned that Mr. Locke had, in farther experiments, 

 satisfied all that his success was quite equal to his anticipations ; and I regretted, in late 

 advices, to learn of his death, after a few days' illness, being thus cut off in the full tide of 

 his usefulness. 



