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one foot in diameter. A smart shower of rain (a frequent 
occurrence in the mountains) arrested their further pro¬ 
gress, and obliged them to return to their lodgings, where 
they arrived about five in the afternoon, gratified, though 
fatigued, by their excursion. 
Mr. Bishop called on Thomas Hopu, the native 
teacher, who has for some time resided at Kairua, and 
was pleased to find him patient under the inconveni¬ 
ences to which his situation necessarily subjects him, 
and anxious to promote the best interests of his coun¬ 
trymen. 
29th. The Sabbath morning dawned upon the mission¬ 
aries at Kairua under circumstances unusually ani¬ 
mating, and they prepared to spend this holy day in 
extending, as widely as possible, their labours among 
the benighted people around them. Mr. Thurston 
preached in the native language twice at the governor’s 
house, to attentive audiences. Mr. Bishop and Thomas 
Hopu proceeded early in the morning to Kaavaroa, a 
village about fourteen miles distant, on the north side 
of Kearake’kua, (Karakakooa,) where they arrived 
at 11 A. m. Kamakau, chief of the place, received 
them with many expressions of gladness, led them 
to his house, and provided some refreshments; after 
which, they walked together to a ranai , (house of 
cocoa-nut leaves,) which he had some time ago erected 
for the public worship of Jehovah. Here they found 
about a hundred of his people assembled, and waiting 
their arrival. Mr. Bishop, with the aid of Thomas, 
preached to them from John iii. L6. and endeavoured 
in the most familiar manner to set before them the 
great love of God in sending his Son to die for sinners, 
and the necessity of forsaking sin, and believing on 
