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There are eleven schools in the district, which give instruction to 

 about five hundred children. The church has increased in four years 

 to two hundred members. Of marriages, there are about seventy 

 annually. 



On the 6th of November, the Flying-Fish returned to Honolulu. 

 In the neighbourhood of Honolulu, there are a number of fish-ponds 

 belonging to the king, in which are bred several kinds of fish. There 

 are many other ponds belonging to individuals. The taro-patches are 

 used occasionally for this purpose, and not unfrequently are seen to 

 contain large fish ; thus poe and fish, their principal food, though of 

 such opposite natures, are raised together. 



They have several modes of taking fish, with the net and hook, and 

 sometimes with poisonous herbs. 



They likewise take shrimps and small fish by forming a sort of pen 

 in the soft mud, in one corner of which a net is placed ; the shrimps 

 and fish leap over the enclosure of the pen, which is gradually con- 

 tracted towards the net, which acts like a large seine. 



The most conspicuous point about Oahu, is the noted crater on its 

 east end, called Lealu or Diamond Hill. This lies about four and a 

 half miles from Honolulu, and forms a very picturesque object from the 

 harbour. It is the largest coast-crater on the island, and was visited 

 by many of us. The rock, for the most part, consists of vesicular lava, 

 very rough and black. The ascent to it is somewhat difficult. On the 

 margin of the crater, calcareous incrustations are formed. It is quite 

 shallow, and between a half and a third of a mile in diameter. There 

 is no appearance of a lava-stream having issued from it. Its surface is 

 thickly strewn with lava-blocks, which were also found embedded in 

 the coral rock along the shore. The raised coral reef was also seen 

 here, where it is partially decomposed, so as to resemble chalk, and 

 had been quarried. This rock was found to contain fossils of recent 

 species. 



At the foot of this hill, on the western side, are the remains of a 

 heiau or ancient temple. Certain ceremonies were performed on the 

 consecration of these temples, a description of which my friend Dr. 

 Judd obtained for me, from the best native authorities, and for which I 

 must refer the reader, who may be curious in such matters, to Appendix 

 III. The mode of building these structures, if so they may be called, 

 was for each of the inhabitants, both high and low, to bring stones bv 

 hand. They are usually quadrangular. The one above noticed was 

 on the hill-side overlooking ihe plain lying towards Honolulu, on which 

 is the village or town of Waikiki. 



Off the village of Waikiki there is an anchorage, and the reef 



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