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also, produces good crops when sufficient moisture caia be had. 

 Potatoes, corn, sugar-cane, and sweet-potatoes, are the chief products 

 of the windward side of the island. 



In some places there are extensive woods, the trees in which are of 

 large size ; but the timber is of little value, being either soft and 

 spongy, or hard and difficult to work. Of the former kinds the 

 natives make their canoes. 



The district of Kula, on East Maui, although extremely rough 

 and rocky, has a loamy, rich, and productive soil : it produces the 

 finest Irish potatoes, turnips, corn, melons, and wheat. The latter, of 

 an excellent quality, is found growing wild. It was introduced about 

 twenty years before our visit, planted, and not the least attention paid 

 to it; instead, however, of "running out," it has increased. At Maalaca 

 Bay there is good anchorage for vessels of any size, and a fine fishery. 



The isthmus is too dry to be fit for cultivation : it is in extent 

 about twenty by fifteen miles. During nine months of the year it is 

 a fine grazing country, and feeds large herds of cattle, that are mostly 

 owned by foreigners. 



The productions on Maui are the same as those of the other 

 islands : to these may be added a few fruits, as grapes, &c., but these 

 are not raised in large quantities. 



In industry and enterprise, the natives of this island have made but 

 slow progress, though there is abundant evidence that they possess 

 both, if properly developed. This is shown in their attempts at culti- 

 vation. 



The king, in order to foster a spirit of enterprise, proposed to a 

 company of about fifty natives, that each should cultivate a small lot 

 of land, of from one to two acres, with sugar-cane ; and that when ripe 

 he would manufacture it into sugar and molasses for one-half, and 

 would, besides, relieve them from all taxation. It was considered 

 that four-tenths of the sugar would pay for its manufacture, and that 

 two-tenths should be equivalent to the taxes. Sixty or seventy acres 

 were planted. The produce was found to be one and a half tons to 

 the acre, besides some molasses. 



Both at Wailuku and at Hamakualoa, the natives have shown 

 much perseverance and enterprise in erecting stone churches. These 

 are built by native workmen, and their dimensions are one hundred 

 feet in length, by fifty feet in width. For the construction of that at 

 Hamakualoa, they were obliged to bring the stones, lime, and sand, 



