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seen; and soon after five p. m. we arrived at 
Keauhou, a pleasant village, containing one hun¬ 
dred and thirty-five houses, and about eight miles 
from Kairua. Messrs. Bishop and Harwood 
reached the same place about an hour earlier, and 
here we proposed to spend the night. We had 
not been long in the village, when about one 
hundred and fifty people collected round the 
house in which we stopped. After singing and 
prayer, Mr. Thurston preached to them. They 
gave good attention; and though we conversed 
with them a considerable time after the service 
was ended, they still thronged our house, and 
seemed unwilling to disperse. During our walk 
from Kairua to this place, we counted six hundred 
and ten houses, and allowed one hundred more 
for those who live among the plantations on the 
sides of the hills. Reckoning five persons to each 
house, which we think not far from a correct cal¬ 
culation, the population of the tract though which 
we have travelled to-day will be about three thou¬ 
sand five hundred and fifty souls. We also passed 
nineteen heiaus, of different dimensions, some of 
which we carefully examined. Late in the even¬ 
ing we spread our mats on the loose pebbles of 
which the floor of the house was formed, and, 
thankful for the mercies we had received, laid 
ourselves down, and enjoyed a comfortable night’s 
repose. Thermometer at sunset 71°. 
Early the next morning, numbers of the natives 
collected around our lodgings, and, when informed 
that we intended to perform religious worship, sat 
down on the ground, and became silent, After 
singing a hymn in their language, I gave a short 
exhortation, followed by prayer. They afterwards 
kept us in conversation till about half-past eight, 
