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peered into it with the keenest search. It was delightful, 
meantime, to us land-lubbers, to watch the workings of his 
face. There was a gleam of triumph creeping over it as lie 
first brought his glass to bear upon the object. But as the 
highest part of the pile came into the field of vision, his 
cheeks dropped an instant, then curled into the well-known 
lineaments of chagrin, and then into those of rage, as if he 
v r ould rather all the land were sunk, than he be found mis¬ 
taken in a matter so purely professional. 
u Damn the land !” he at length exclaimed ; u I suppose 
it must be Mauna-Kea,” and gave the glass to a passenger. 
The breeze piped up and we moved on merrily. Merrily 
flew the gladdening waters from the prow ; steadily as the 
masts stood out the canvass on the clear blue sky; and 
brightly beamed the warm and mellow day on the sea. The 
Scotch mate, who swore by any dozen of things that his 
memory happened to seize, affirmed by his blood and the 
wffiisky that had been buried seven comfortable years at his 
auld aunt’s homestead, thathe would see the lassies of Hono¬ 
lulu before he was a day older ; the professor of psalmody 
sung, “Here’s a health to thee, Tom Moore ;” the Hawaiian 
Island servants of the Hudson’s Bay Company began to count 
their money preparatory to the purchase of poi ; the crew 
began to tell yarns about “ sprees” they had enjoyed in 
Chili, New Holland, Liverpool, Vera Cruz, St. Petersburg!! 
and Montevideo; the six foot bootswain began to whistle ; 
Tom began to grin; a former cabin-boy began to think of 
his mother, whom he expected to meet in the islands ; the 
visitor bird chirped in the rigging; and all for joy ! For 
now the lofty peaks of Hawrnii loomed above the clouds, 
the sea-weed gathered on the prow, and the odor of the 
land puffed over us. 
At five o’clock the breeze slackened again, and until 
nightfall the ship barely moved enough to obey her helm. 
Near ten in the evening it freshened, but as we were in the 
neighborhood of a lee-shore, the captain thought it prudent 
