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mostly under the age of two years, and thirteen at ages beyond ten 

 years. It is thought by Mr. Forbes, that this proportion of deaths 

 would hold good through the district. One thing seems certain, how- 

 ever, that they do not all die from hereditary diseases; many are 

 carried off by diarrhoea, occasioned by improper diet, and a few are 

 stillborn. There has also been much emigration from this district to 

 others, and many have embarked as sailors on board whale-ships. 

 The laws under which they formerly lived, have caused them to be 

 improvident. They have frequently suffered from want of food ; and 

 not unfrequently they are obliged to work without either good water 

 or sufficient nutriment. 



From all accounts, cases of infanticide are rare, nor, as we have 

 before observed, is it thought that the law prohibiting illicit inter- 

 course has had a tendency to increase it. One of the causes which 

 formerly made it frequent, was the husband leaving his wife for 

 another woman, which invariably led to her destroying the child. 



As respects intemperance, there has been no native seen intoxicated 

 for several years. 



There are twenty-three schools, one of which is kept by the mis- 

 sionaries, and the others by natives, some of whom have been educated 

 at the high-school at Lahaina. The number of scholars is between 

 seven and eight hundred. 



The principal diseases are those of a scorbutic character, cutaneous 

 eruptions, remittent fevers, catarrhs, and inflammation of the viscera : 

 these are the most fatal. Diarrhoea, dysentery, and ophthalmia also 

 prevail to some extent. 



Our gentlemen, during their detention, crossed over to the north 

 shore of the bay of Kealakeakua, to visit the place where Captain Cook 

 was killed. The natives pointed out the spot where he fell, which was 

 on a rock, the most convenient for landing of any in the vicinity, as it 

 is somewhat protected from the swell by a point of lava rocks. Within 

 a few yards there is a stump of a cocoa-nut tree, at the foot of which 

 he is said to have breathed his last. The top of this tree had been 

 cut off and carried to England by H. B. M. ship Imogene. It is now 

 treasured up in the museum of the Greenwich Hospital, which I 

 cannot but feel was an appropriate disposition of it, calculated to 

 recall his memory to the minds of the thousands who view it, and 

 inspire in them the feeling of proper pride, in finding that the country 

 appreciates so remote an emblem of their distinguished countryman. 

 If any thing is capable of inspiring ambition to exertion in deeds of 



