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MISSIONARY TOUR 
villages, either on the shore or a short distance inland, 
and contains probably a population of 20,000 souls, 
among whom a missionary might labour with facility. 
Though there is at present no chief of distinction resid¬ 
ing here, as at Kairua, or Kearake’kua, yet the very 
circumstance of establishing a station here might lead 
one to remove hither; and the conduct of the people, 
we have no doubt, would alter materially as they be¬ 
came better acquainted with the missionaries, and their 
object in settling permanently among them. It is near 
Kearake’kua bay, the frequent resort of shipping, where 
supplies might be left; and the natives also told us, 
that fresh water in considerable quantities might be 
procured at a short distance. We had not an oppor¬ 
tunity to examine the place where they said it was 
found; but should this prove a fact, Honaunau would 
possess an accommodation seldom met with on this 
side of the island. 
Being sufficiently recovered to proceed on the jour¬ 
ney, we left Keokoa about eight o’clock on the morning 
of the 24th. After travelling half a mile, a singular 
appearance of the lava, at a small distance from the 
shore, attracted our attention, and, on examination, pre¬ 
sented a curious phenomenon. It consisted of a co¬ 
vered avenue of considerable extent, from fifty to sixty 
feet in height, formed by the flowing of the lava, in 
some recent eruption, over the edge of a perpendicular 
pile of ancient volcanic rocks, from sixty to seventy 
feet high. It appeared as if, at first, it had flowed over 
in one vast sheet, but had afterwards fallen more slowly, 
and in detached semifluid masses. These, cooling as 
they fell, had hardened and formed a pile, which, by 
continued augmentation from above, had ultimately 
