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POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES. 
CHAP. XI. 
Jouneyto Kearakomo—Description of the dracaena, or ti 
plant—Account of the application of a priestess of Peld 
to the chiefs at Maui, to revenge the insult offered to the 
goddess—Visit of Kapiolani to the crater—Reported 
eruption of lava in Kapapala—Sabbath in Kearakomo 
—Affectionate reception of Mauae—Fragment of a song 
on his birth—Conversation with the people—Marks 
of an earthquake—Description of Kaimu—Manner of 
launching and landing canoes at Kehena—Preaching- 
Visit to Kinao—Popular superstitions respecting the 
origin of diseases. 
Though we left our encampment at daybreak, it 
was eleven o’clock in the forenoon before we took 
our final leave of Kirauea. 
The path by which we descended towards the 
sea was about south-east-by-east. On the high 
lands in the vicinity of the crater, we found the 
ground covered with strawberry plants, on some 
of which were a few berries, but the season for 
them appeared to be gone by. The plants and 
vines were small, as was also the fruit, which in its 
colour and shape resembled the hautboy straw¬ 
berry, though in taste it was much more insipid. 
Strawberries, as well as raspberries, are indigenous 
plants, and are found in great abundance over 
most of the high lands of Hawaii; though we do 
not know of their existence in any other islands of 
the group. 
