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MISSIONARY TOUR 
We supped with the governor as usual, and, after 
family worship with his household, prepared our bag¬ 
gage for our journey, some of which we left to be for¬ 
warded by the Ainoa to Waiakea, a district on the 
eastern side of the island. 
About eleven o’clock in the forenoon, on the 18th, 
we waited on the governor to express our grateful sense 
of the generous hospitality we had experienced from 
him, during our protracted stay at Kairua. We also 
thanked him for the friendly advice he had given, and 
the acceptable aid he had so kindly furnished for the 
prosecution of our journey, and informed him that we 
were ready to proceed. He had before given instruc¬ 
tions to our guide. He now directed the man who was 
going in the canoe, to take care of our things, and told 
us he would send some men to carry our baggage by 
land, as far as Kearake’kua. We then took leave of 
him, and proceeded on our journey. Messrs. Eisliop 
and Harwood went in the canoe, the rest of our num¬ 
ber travelled on foot. 
Our guide, Makoa, who had been the king’s messen¬ 
ger many years, and was well acquainted with the 
island, led the way. He was rather a singular looking 
little man, between forty and fifty years of age. A 
thick tuft of jet black curling hair shaded his wrinkled 
forehead, and a long bunch of the saihe kind hung down 
behind each of his ears. The rest of his head was 
cropped as short as shears could make it. His small 
black eyes were ornamented with tataued Vandyke 
semicircles. Two goats, impressed in the same inde¬ 
lible manner, stood rampant over each of his brows; 
one, like the supporter of a coat of arms, was fixed on 
each side of his nose, and two more guarded the cor- 
