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MISSIONARY TOUR 
up in the most confused manner, by some violent con¬ 
vulsion of the earth, at the time it was in a semifluid 
state. There was a kind of path formed across the 
most level part of it, by large smooth round stones, 
brought from the sea-shore, and placed about three or 
four feet apart. By stepping from one to another of 
these, we passed over the roughest piece of lava we 
had yet seen; and soon after five p. m. we arrived at 
Keauhou, a pleasant village containing one hundred 
and thirty-five houses, and about eight miles from 
Kairua. Messrs. Bishop and Harwood reached the 
same place about an hour earlier, and here we pro¬ 
posed to spend the night. We had not been long in 
the village, when about one hundred and fifty people 
collected round the house in which we stopped. After 
singing and prayer, Mr. Thurston preached to them. 
They gave good attention; and though we conversed 
with them a considerable time after the service was 
ended, they still thronged our house, and seemed un¬ 
willing to disperse. During our walk from Kairua to 
this place we counted six hundred and ten houses, and 
allowed one hundred more for those who live among 
the plantations on the sides of the hills. Beckoning 
five persons to each house, which we think not far 
from a correct calculation, the population of the tract 
through which we have travelled to-day will be about 
3550 souls. We also passed nineteen heiaus, of dif¬ 
ferent dimensions, some of which we carefully ex¬ 
amined. Late in the evening we spread our mats on 
the loose pebbles of which the floor of the house was 
formed, and, thankful for the mercies we had received, 
laid ourselves down, and enjoyed a comfortable night’s 
repose. Thermometer at sunset 71°. 
