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I was in the habit of passing this building almost daily, during 

 the latter part of my stay, and frequently was much amused at the 

 behaviour of the scholars and their teacher. These little boys are 

 for the most part nearly naked; but what they wanted in clothes 

 they made up in curiosity, and on my passing on Kanuha's white 

 horse, out they would come without the consent of their teacher. On 

 one occasion, I was not a little amused at his attempts to restrain 

 them, through which a kind of hurry-skurry ensued, as though so 

 many rats were escaping from a cage : all the teacher could do, 

 escape they would; and when he ran to one door to close it, they 

 would nimbly seek the other, until none were left but such as he had 

 tumbled over. I could not help laughing at this scene. This will 

 give some idea of the difficulties to be sometimes encountered here 

 in teaching, although I would not have the reader suppose that such 

 is the case always. 



TIVil-LU-KO faLi-s 



During our stay at Hilo, I visited the Rainbow Fall : it is about 

 a mile and a half from Hilo, and is well worthy of a visit. The 



