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with the laborious travelling of the past day, that they 
were obliged to put up for the night. They procured a 
little sour poe, and only a small quantity of brackish 
water. Having conducted family worship with the 
people of the place, they laid themselves down to rest 
on their mats spread on the small fragments of lava, of 
which the floor of the house was composed. 
Early the next morning the party at Honomalino 
proceeded to Kapua, and about eight A. m. joined those 
who had slept there. 
At this place we hired a man to go about seven miles 
into the mountains for fresh water; but he returned 
with only one calabash full; a very inadequate supply, 
as our whole company had suffered much from thirst, 
and the effects of the brackish water we had frequently 
drank since leaving Honaunau. Nothing can exceed 
the barren and solitary appearance of this part of the 
island, not only from the want of fresh water, but from 
the rugged and broken tracts of lava of which it appears 
to be entirely composed. 
Unwilling to spend the Sabbath in the desolate and 
almost forsaken village of Kapua, we prepared for a 
long day’s journey, as we knew of no village before us 
containing more than five or six houses for nearly thirty 
miles’ distance. 
Before we left Kapua, we were so favoured as to 
procure water enough to fill our canteens, and about 
10 A. m. resumed our journey. Messrs. Thurston, 
Bishop, and Goodrich, walked on by the sea-side. 
About noon they reached Kaulanamauna, and shortly 
after left Kona, and entered Kaii. 
Kona is the most populous of the six great divisions 
of Hawaii, and being situated on the leeward side. 
