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exultation, and rage, which such pursuits invariably 
produce, are not only visible in every countenance, but 
fully acted out, and all the malignant passions which 
gambling engenders are indulged without restraint. We 
have seen females hazarding their beads, scissors, cloth¬ 
beating mallets, and every piece of cloth they possessed, 
except what they wore, on a throw of the uru or pāhe. 
In the same throng might be frequently seen the farmer 
with his o-o, and other implements of husbandry; the 
builder of canoes, with his hatchets and adzes; and 
some poor man, with a knife, and the mat on which he 
slept,—all eager to stake every article they possessed 
on the success of their favourite player; and when they 
have lost all, we have known them, frantic with rage, 
tear their hair from their heads on the spot. This is 
not all; the sport seldom terminates without quarrels, 
sometimes of a serious nature, ensuing between the 
adherents of the different parties. 
Since schools have been opened in the islands, and 
the natives have been induced to direct their attention 
to Christian instruction and intellectual improvement, 
we have had the satisfaction to observe these games 
much less followed than formerly; and we hope the 
period is fast approaching, when they shall only be t>e 
healthful exercises of children, and when the time and 
strength devoted to purposes so useless, and often in¬ 
jurious, shall be employed in cultivating their fertile 
soil, augmenting their sources of individual and social 
happiness, and securing to themselves the enjoyment 
of the comforts and privileges of civilized and Chris¬ 
tian life. 
The country appeared more thickly inhabited than 
that over which we had travelled in the morning. The 
