68 KAUAI AND OAHU. 



about seventy pupils in this district, who are taught by natives. There 

 are two houses of worship, and about forty communicants. No de- 

 crease is apparent in the population within a few years. 



On the fertile places, although the pasturage was good, yet no cattle 

 were to be seen. 



From Lihui, they pursued their way to Hanawale, which is a small 

 fishing village at the mouth of a little stream. The country on this 

 route was uninteresting, until they reached Wailua, the residence of 

 Deborah, a chief woman of the islands, readily known as such from 

 her enormous size, and the cast of her countenance. She has a person 

 living with her called Olivia Chapin, who speaks English, and has 

 learned how to extort money. Deborah has about forty men in her 

 district ; but they were absent, being employed in the mountains cut- 

 ting timber to pay the tax to the king. 



Near Deborah's residence are extensive fish-ponds belonging to her, 

 which have been made with great labour: they are of different degrees 

 of saltness. The fish are taken from the sea when young and put into 

 the saltest pond ; as they grow larger, they are removed into one less 

 salt, and are finally fattened in fresh water. While our gentlemen 

 were there, Deborah received young fish in payment of the poll-tax, 

 w T hich were immediately transferred to her ponds. 



Wailua, (two waters,) was formerly a place of some importance. 

 It is situated on a small stream of the same name, in a barren, sandy 

 spot. 



Deborah furnished them with a double canoe, to carry them up the 

 river to visit the falls. Taking the western branch, they ascended it 

 for two and a half miles. 



There are many good taro-patches and sugar plantations on its 

 banks. They landed in what appeared to have been an old crater, in 

 form of a basin, with high perpendicular banks. The low grounds 

 along the river are extremely fertile, producing bread-fruit, sugar-cane, 

 oranges, &c. The latter, however, are suffering from the blight, and 

 some of the trees were covered with a black smut, produced by a 

 species of aphis. 



In ascending, an insulated black rock is passed, known as the 

 " Muu," which has been detached from a high rocky bluff, that is 

 remarkable for the dikes visible in it. 



They afterwards ascended the bank, two hundred feet high, and 

 crossed about half a mile to the falls, over a plain covered with grass 

 and wild sugar-cane. The stream was very small, running sluggishly, 

 and passed over a precipice of barren rocks, one hundred and sixty 

 feet in height. Although there is neither tree nor shrub along the 



