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brethren were surprised to hear him use so much evan¬ 
gelical language in prayer. During the conversation 
of the evening, he expressed a desire, which has since 
been gratified, that a missionary might reside in his 
neighbourhood, that he and his people might be in¬ 
structed in the word of God; might learn to read and 
write, and become acquainted with what the missio¬ 
naries were teaching at the stations where they dwelt. 
He is about fifty years of age, and regretted exceed¬ 
ingly, as many others have also done, that he was so 
far advanced in life before the missionaries arrived at 
the islands. The Sabbath passed away pleasantly, 
and, it is to be hoped, profitably, both to the interesting 
inhabitants of the place, and their guests; and the lat¬ 
ter retired to rest, animated and encouraged by what 
they had that day witnessed. Early next morning 
they set out for Kairua, where they arrived about nine 
o’clock in the forenoon. 
Unable to proceed with the well for want of proper 
instruments with which to drill the rocks, the greater 
part of this day was spent in ascertaining the popula¬ 
tion of Kairua. Numbering the houses for one mile 
along the coast, they found them to be 52.9; and al¬ 
lowing an average of five persons to each house, the 
inhabitants in Kairua will amount to 2645 persons. 
This certainly does not exceed the actual population, 
as few of the houses are small, and many of them large, 
containing two or three families each. 
The varied and strongly marked volcanic surface of 
the higher parts of the mountain called Mouna Hua - 
rarai, in the immediate neighbourhood of Kairua; the 
traditional accounts given by the natives of the erup¬ 
tions, which, from craters on its summit, had in differ- 
