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vastation of the tidal ware is traversed and several new 

 villages appear in place of those destroyed. 



The road to Waiohinu is barren, hot and desolate, 

 yet not without botanic interest in showing the rapidity 

 with which nature repairs injuries. This village of 

 Waiohinu, the name signifying in Hawaiian, " shinino" 

 water," is the paradise of Kau, and here Hon. Thos. 

 Martin, a noble specimen of the half-caste race, dis- 

 penses the hospitalities of the place, and exhibits the 

 advanced civilization of Hawaii most worthily. 



KEALAKEKUA. 



High above the sea, along which the coast is almost 

 impassable from its jagged hills of broken lava, ^the 

 government road winds over rough pahoehoe and a-a 

 lava, where recent and remote eruptions have left their 

 ruins ; occasional bursts of vegetation and glimpses of 

 tropical luxuriance relieve the scene, but the sixty long 

 miles are a dreary, hot and fatiguing ride, and the 

 hours monotonous until the beach and its cocoanut 

 groves are reached. Thence on, the lava rock is more 

 passable and the horses may gallop rapidly through 

 groves and villages to the classic land of Hawaii, — 

 Kaawaloa and Kealakekua, where the king among 

 kings, Keawe o Keawe, dwelt ; where Captain Cook 

 was received and worshipped as a god and then slain ; 

 where was the sacred refuge of Honaunau ; the "House 

 of Keawe," and mausoleum of the ancient chiefs of the 

 land. Along this rocky shore there were fought the 

 early conflicts between paganism and Christianity ; here 

 was the first royal violation of the terrible taboo/ and on 

 these rocks, between Kailua and Kaawaloa, the party 



