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baskets, they use a kind of gourd, which grows to a large size, and 

 seems peculiar to these islands ; these are thin and brittle, but with 

 the care the natives take of them, are extremely serviceable; they are 

 used for almost every thing, as dishes, for carrying water, &c. It 

 takes two gourds to make one of the baskets used for transporting 

 articles ; and the smaller one being turned over the opening cut in 

 the larger one, effectually protects the contents from rain. Some of 

 these gourds will contain upwards of two bushels, 

 these islands, they are almost indispensable. 



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MODE OF CARRYING BURDENS. 



The gait of the Kanaka moving with his load is a quick trot, and 

 he takes very short steps. The loaded calabashes, when suspended 

 from the sticks, have the see-saw creaking sound that is heard from an 

 easy old-fashioned chaise. 



Besides the carrying of burdens, there are many natives engaged 

 in the same employments as the lower classes in the United States. 



Almost every profession of civilized nations is represented here, 

 except that of law, of which, as yet, there are no practitioners either 

 in Honolulu or at the other islands. 



There is no great beauty in the location of the town of Honolulu, 

 nor any taste displayed in its plan ; yet there are a number of com- 

 fortable habitations, surrounded with young trees, intermixed with 

 the grass houses of the natives. The roads, or streets, are entirely 

 destitute of trees, and the natives and foreign residents here seem to 

 have no inclination to plant them in the town ; this surprised me, for 

 it would tend more than any thing else to their comfort. The high 

 adobe walls, which have been introduced from South America, how- 



