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tivated. The Irish potato, Indian corn, beans, coffee, cotton, figs, 

 oranges, guavas, and grapes, have been introduced, and might be 

 successfully cultivated, if there was any demand for them. 



The climate is mild throughout the district. The thermometer 

 ranges between 62° and 76° in the winter, and from 70° to 86° in the 

 summer, and seldom above 86° or below 62° ; this, it will be remem- 

 bered, is on the lee side of the island. They seldom have strong 

 winds ; and in the day they enjoy a cool sea-breeze, which changes to 

 the land-breeze at night. 



From May to September is the wet or rainy season, when they 

 experience a good deal of rain ; and this is also the growing season. 



In December, January, and February, they have usually very dry 

 weather, and the winds prevail from the north, from which quarter it 

 sometimes blows fresh. 



The natives are better off here than could have been expected, and 

 some of their houses are large and airy. The chiefs set a good 

 example in this respect. Kapiolani, one of the chief women, has a very 

 comfortable two-story stone dwelling. They have also built a stone 

 church, one hundred and twenty-five feet long by sixty feet wide. 



Good paths for horses have been made throughout the district, with 

 much labour. An evident improvement has taken place in the habits 

 of the females, who nave been taught the use of the needle, and other 

 feminine employments. Kapiolani has been very assiduous in intro- 

 ducing improvements, and she has caused to be erected a sugar-mill, 

 to introduce the manufacture of sugar, and make it an object for the 

 people to raise the cane. 



Our gentlemen, during their detention, crossed over to the north 

 shore of the bay of Kealakeakua, to visit the place were Captain Cook 

 was killed. The natives pointed out the spot where he fell, which was 

 on a rock, the most convenient for landing of any in the vicinity, as it 

 is somewhat protected from the swell by a point of lava rocks. Within 

 a few yards there is a stump of a cocoa-nut tree, at the foot of which 

 he is said to have breathed his last. The top of this tree had been 

 cut off and carried to England by H. B. M. ship Imogene. It is now 

 treasured up in the museum of the Greenwich Hospital, which I cannot 

 but feel was an appropriate disposition of it, calculated to recall his 

 memory to the minds of the thousands who view it, and inspire in 

 them the feeling of proper pride, in finding that the country appreciates 

 so remote an emblem of their distinguished countryman. If any thing 

 is capable of inspiring ambition to exertion in deeds of valour or of 

 usefulness, such things must assuredly have that effect. The drawing 

 of the stump of this tree, is from a sketch made by Mr. Peale, who 



