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forms a prime article of food in those parts of the 
island, where there is a light soil, and but little water. 
Between three and four o’clock in the afternoon we 
reached Kaulu, a small village environed with planta¬ 
tions, and pleasantly situated on the side of a wide 
valley, extending from the mountains to the south point 
of the island. As the men with our baggage had not 
come up, we waited about two hours, when Tuite, the 
head man of the village, arrived, and pressed us to 
spend the night at his house. We accepted his invita¬ 
tion, and proposed to him to collect the people of 
the village together, to hear about the true God. He 
consented, and a little before sunset about a hundred 
and fifty assembled in front of his house. Mr. Thurston, 
after the usual devotional exercises, preached to them 
for about half an hour, and they paid great attention. 
During the' evening, a baked pig, with some potatoes, 
and taro, was brought for our supper, of which we 
made a hearty repast. 
At the request of Makoa, Tuite furnished men to 
carry our baggage to the next district, and soon after 
daylight on the 29th we left Kauru, and, taking an 
inland direction, travelled over a fertile plain, covered 
with a thin yet luxuriant soil. Sometimes the surface 
was strewed with small stones, or fragments of lava, 
but in general it was covered with brushwood. 
The population in this part did not appear concen¬ 
trated in towns and villages, as it had been along the 
sea-shore, but scattered over the whole face of the 
country, which appeared divided into farms of varied 
extent, and upon these the houses generally stood 
singly, or in small clusters, seldom exceeding four or 
five in number. 
