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Honolulu, they resort to it with their produce for a market. The 

 climate is cooler by a few degrees than that of the opposite or leeward 

 side of the island. Frequent showers keep up a constant verdure. 



There are eleven schools in the district, which give instruction to 

 about five hundred children. The church has increased in four 

 years to two hundred members. Of marriages, there are about 

 seventy annually. 



On the 6th of November, the Flying-Fish returned to Honolulu. 



In the neighbourhood of Honolulu, there are a number of fish-ponds 

 belonging to the king, in which are bred several kinds of fish. There 

 are many other ponds belonging to individuals. The taro-patches are 

 used occasionally for this purpose, and not unfrequently are seen to 

 contain large fish ; thus poe and fish, their principal food, though of 

 such opposite natures, are raised together. 



They have several modes of taking fish, with the net and hook, and 

 sometimes with poisonous herbs. 



They likewise take shrimps and small fish by forming a sort of pen 

 in the soft mud, in one corner of which a net is placed; the shrimps and 

 fish leap over the enclosure of the pen, which is gradually contracted 

 towards the net, which acts like a large seine. 



The most conspicuous point about Oahu, is the noted crater on its 

 east end, called Lealu or Diamond Hill. This lies about four and a 

 half miles from Honolulu, and forms a very picturesque object from 

 the harboiu-. It is the largest coast-crater on the island, and was 

 visited by many of us. The rock, for the most part, consists of 

 vesicular lava, very rough and black. The ascent to it is somewhat 

 difficult. On the margin of the crater, calcareous incrustations are 

 formed. It is quite shallow, and between a half and a third of a mile 

 in diameter. There is no appearance of a lava-stream having issued 

 from It. Its surface is thickly strewn with lava-blocks, which w^ere 

 also found embedded in the coral rock along the shore. The raised 

 coral reef was also seen here, where it is partially decomposed, so as 

 to resemble chalk, and had been quarried. This rock was found to 

 contain fossils of recent species. 



At the foot of this hill, on the western side, are the remains of a 

 heiau or ancient temple. Certain ceremonies were performed on 

 the consecration of these temples, a description of which my friend 

 Dr. Judd obtained for me, from the best native authorities, and for 

 which I must refer the reader, who may be curious in such matters, 

 to Appendix III. The mode of building these structures, if so they 



