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pounds of coffee each ; and the calculation is, that the average yield 

 of each tree will be equal to that amount. 



Mr. Goodrich, the missionary who preceded Mr. Coan, was very 

 desirous of introducing the culture of sugar-cane and coflfee, and 

 became very active in promoting it. With the assistance of the 

 natives he planted a large number of coffee trees, and was bent 

 upon instructing them in the mode of cultivating both. He also 

 erected a small sugar-mill. I regretted much to hear that his stic- 

 cessor viewed all these improvements in a far different light, and, 

 not content to allow the trees to fall into neglect, he actually took the 

 trouble to root them iip, in order to arrest the progress of the im- 

 provement of the natives in their culture. 



I walked round the garden with the missionary, and saw all the 

 vines, fruit, and ornamental trees, to which his predecessor had paid 

 so much attention, and in which he had taken such pride, going to 

 waste. One would have thought that the spirit of his calling would 

 have dictated a more worthy and enlightened course. I never was 

 more satisfied with the folly of such a step, than when the question 

 was asked me by an intelligent native, " Why the missionaries no like 

 grow sugar-cane and coffee?" I could not but believe that the intelli- 

 gent lady of the establishment, with her numerous scholars, would 

 have been well employed in superintending the garden, and that it 

 would have proved a source of recreation as well as of profitable 

 industry to all concerned. 



The districts of Hilo and Puna are embraced under the same pastor, 

 the Rev. Mr. Coan. It is the largest charge in the group, and accord- 

 ing to the last census, contains twelve thousand inhabitants. In 1840, 

 seven thousand of these were reported as communicants, forming 

 twenty separate congregations, all of which are under the charge of 

 native catechists, and are visited quarterly by the missionary for 

 inspection, instruction, discipline, and the Lord's Supper. All the 

 communicants meet yearly at Hilo. 



Being much engaged with the natives, I had a fair opportunity of 

 observing their improvement in religious knowledge ; and I regret to 

 sa}^ that it is not such as I anticipated from the accounts that were 

 given me, or equal to what it ought to be from the exertions of their 

 pastor ; for, while I cannot but condemn the course he has pursued in 

 rooting up the coffee plantations, and overturning the good w^orks of 

 bis predecessor, I must do him the justice to say, he is untiring in 

 his clerical duties, and his field is one of constant labour, both of 

 mind and body. 



