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found it yet; perhaps this is it, of which you are 
telling us.” 
During the same journey we overtook Maaro, 
the chief of Waiakea, and three or four hundred 
people, returning with sandal wood, which they 
had been cutting in the mountains. The bark 
and sap had been chipped off with small adzes, 
and the wood appeared lighter in colour than 
what is usually sold at Oahu, probably from its 
having been but recently cut down. 
The sandal wood is the same as in the East 
Indies, and is probably the santalum album. It is 
a tolerably heavy and solid wood, and after the 
sap, or part next the bark, is taken off, is of a 
light yellow or brown colour, containing a quan¬ 
tity of aromatic oil. Although a plant of slow 
growth, it is found in abundance in all the moun¬ 
tainous parts of the Sandwich Islands, and is cut 
in great quantities by the natives, as it constitutes 
their principal article of exportation. It is 
brought down to the beach in pieces from a foot 
to eighteen inches in diameter, and six or eight 
feet long, to small sticks not more than an inch 
thick and a foot and a half long. It is sold by 
weight; and the merchants, who exchange for it 
articles of European or Chinese manufacture, take 
it to the Canton market, where it is bought by 
the Chinese for the purpose of preparing incense 
to burn in their idol temples. 
Shortly after ten o’clock, on the 10th, the 
chiefs, and people, in considerable numbers, as¬ 
sembled in a large house adjacent to that in which 
we resided, agreeably to the invitation given them 
last evening. The worship commenced as usual, 
and I preached from the text, “ Happy is that 
people whose God is the Lord.” The attention 
