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MISSIONARY TOUR 
withstanding, are filled with thickets of small trees, and 
to these many of the inhabitants of Maui repair for the 
purpose of cutting posts and rafters for their small 
houses. The island is volcanic ; the soil shallow, and 
by no means fertile; the shores, however, abound with 
shell-fish, and some species of medusae and cuttle-fish. 
The inhabitants are but few, probabfy not exceeding 
two thousand. Native teachers are endeavouring to 
instruct them in useful knowledge and religious truth, 
but no foreign missionary has yet laboured on this or 
the neighbouring island of Morokai, which is separated 
from the northern side of Ranai, and the eastern end 
of Maui, by a channel, which, though narrow, is suffi¬ 
ciently wide for the purposes of navigation. 
Morokai is a long irregular island, apparently form¬ 
ed by a chain of volcanic mountains, forty miles in 
length, and not more than seven miles broad; the 
mountains are nearly equal in elevation to those of 
Maui, and are broken by numerous deep ravines and 
watercourses, the sides of which are frequently clothed 
with verdure, and ornamented with shrubs and trees. 
There is but little level land in Morokai, and conse¬ 
quently but few plantations; several spots, however, 
are fertile, and repay the toils of their cultivators. 
The population is greater than that of Ranai, though it 
does not probably exceed three thousand persons. 
Native teachers are engaged in the instruction of the 
people; many of the natives also occasionally visit the 
missionary stations in the adjacent islands of Oahu 
and Maui, and participate in the advantages connected 
with these institutions. 
Oahu, the most romantic and fertile of the Sandwich 
Islands, resembling, in the varied features of its natural 
