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road, we reached the sandy alluvial neck or isthmus, the lowest part 

 of which is only seven feet above the sea. Here the sand is constantly 

 shifting, being thrown np into " dunes," and again dissipated by the 

 wind. On reaching the neck, we turned to the west, and rode seven 

 miles before we reached Wailuku, over a plain nearly uninhabited, 

 and hardly susceptible of cultivation, until within a mile of Wailuku. 



The seminary of Wailuku consists of an extensive range of coral 

 and adobe buildings, beautifully situated on an inclined plane, with 

 high and massive precipices behind, in a flourishing village, which 

 shows more of systematic improvement and organized exertion than 

 any place I have met with in the Hawaiian Islands. The fields, also, 

 are better fenced, a:id the crops more diligently attended to. We 

 were kindly received by the Rev. Mr. Greene, his lady, and Miss 

 Oofden, who have the charge of the establishment, which consists 

 of eighty scholars, between the ages of twelve and eighteen years. 

 Every opportunity was afforded me of inspecting the establishment, 

 and while I found much to commend, there were many things I 

 could have desired to see changed. 



In the first place, I was much struck with the appearance of a want 

 of cleanliness in the dresses of the scholars, contrasting so unfavour- 

 ably with the neatness and cleanliness of the rest of the establishment. 

 Neither can it be expected that they should imbibe cleanly habits, 

 or be able to preserve them, when they are allowed to wear their 

 clothes unchanged from the beginning to the end of the week. The 

 dress consists of the usual loose gown adopted in the islands, and in 

 which these children are allowed to sleep. On Saturday they wash, 

 and on Sunday make their appearance in a white cotton smock, shawl, 

 and bonnet, the latter of their own manufacture. Their dormitory is 

 a long adobe building, with walls two feet thick, divided into com- 

 partments twelve feet by ten, each of which accommodates three 

 scholars. More than half of this space is occupied by their bed, 

 which is made of mats laid on a bank of ti-leaves, or sugar-cane, 

 about two feet thick, with a small pillow of about eight inches square. 

 What clothes they had were hung up in the corners, and a scanty 

 supply they appeared to be. Rolls of tapa were laid on the mats, 

 which serve to cover them at night. The only ventilation was 

 through a small window and the top part of the partition-wall, which 

 was left open. I passed into several of these small rooms, all of 

 which had a musty smell, as of decayed or mouldy vegetable matter. 



