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alleviates the cares of the missionaries themselves, in their families, 

 but adds greatly to their success, and power of doing good. One of 

 the great difficulties in practising medicine among the natives, is their 

 heedlessness and inability to restrain their appetites, both as respects 

 the patients themselves, and their families and friends : they often dis- 

 regard all injunctions as to diet, nor do they exercise any control 

 whatever over the sick. The natives, however, are adepts in alle- 

 viating pains, as I myself can testify : the practice of the loomi- 

 loomi seldom fails in assuaging headache and pains in the limbs ; 

 but this is not practised by those who are the disciples of Esculapius. 

 Although the Hawaiian Islands have been much vaunted as a resort 

 for invalids, I am not satisfied that it would be beneficial to visit 

 them, unless the person afflicted would, on choosing the most suitable 

 abode for his recovery, confine himself to the circumscribed limits. 

 Few comforts could be looked for, unless the patient were to become 

 an inmate of some one of the missionaries' or respectable residents' 

 houses, where they will be sure to enjoy all the kind attentions and 

 the care of another home. 



PENRHYN ISLAND FISH-HOOKS, ETC. 



