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In giving an account of the wants of his parishioners, he includes 

 the following, viz. : lawyers, doctors, teachers, artists, agriculturists, 

 manufacturers, preachers, and, above all, money. 



The schools were in the first place composed of adults and children, 

 and numbered five thousand scholars ; but now they are confined to 

 children, between two and three thousand of whom attend school, 

 being one-sixth of the population. 



With regard to the population of this district, I have no positive 

 proof of its decrease. Children are, indeed, said to be few, but the 

 numbers that are reported as attending the schools show that there is 

 as large a proportion of them as in other countries. 



There is at Hilo a boarding-school for boys, under the care of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Lyman, which was established in 1836. This school is 

 sustained by annual grants of the American Board of Commissioners 

 for Foreign Missions Society and by lay donations. 



The number of scholars at the time of our visit was fifty-three, 

 fifteen of whom had just been received, and seventeen had been 

 lately sent to the high-school at Lahainaluna. Tv/elve more were 

 preparing to join that school. The annual expense of each scholar is 

 from sixteen to eighteen dollars : the boys raise about one-fourth of 

 the food they consume. They cultivate a little sugar-cane, which 

 was estimated to be worth fifty dollars the last year. The boys eat 

 at a common table : the dormitory is eighty feet long, by twenty-eight 

 feet wide, and immediately over the school-room; each bed-place is 

 partitioned off into a small room, with mats, six feet by four. The 

 whole is extremely neat and clean. 



The boys in this school appear more cheerful than any others I 

 have seen in this group ; all of them look remarkably healthy, and, 

 indeed, robust for these islands. They are fed upon poe, one of the 

 most nutritious articles of food, and thrive proportionately ; they were, 

 in fact, the largest boys of their respective ages that I saw on the 

 islands. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Lyman, I was present at an examina- 

 tion of the scholars : sacred geography and arithmetic were the two 

 branches most dwelt upon ; the exercises in mental arithmetic would 

 have done credit to our own country, for they were quite as pi'oficient 

 in them as could possibly have been expected. I was much pleased 

 with the arrangements of the dormitory, eating-rooms, hospital, and 

 with the appearance of the "farm," or few acres they had under 

 cultivation. It was very evident that system and good order pre- 



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