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exclaimed, “ Jehovah is a good God ; I desire him 
for my God.” 
About this time Makoa arrived with our baggage. 
We were glad to see him, and inquired where he had 
been during the past week ? He said he remained 
only one night at Honuapo, and followed on the next 
morning; observing, at the same time, we must have 
travelled fast, or he should have been here before us, 
as he had not gone round by the volcano, but had 
proceeded in a straight line from Kapapala to Keara- 
komo. 
The evening we spent with the people of the place 
in conversation on various subjects, but principally 
respecting the volcano which we had recently visited. 
They corroborated the accounts we had before heard, 
by telling us it had been burning from time imme¬ 
morial, and added, that eruptions from it had taken 
place during every king’s reign, whose name was 
preserved in tradition, or song, from Akea, first king 
of the island, down to the present monarch. Kaimu, 
the district where we were, was overflowed in the days 
of Arapai, but how many generations it was since he 
reigned, we could not learn, as they were not agreed 
about it among themselves. They also repeated the 
account of the inundation of Kearaara, and the low 
land of Kapapala, five moons ago, and some of them 
told us they had seen the large rock carried out into 
the sea at Mahuka. Like the people of Kearakomo, 
they believed Kirauea to be the abode of supernatural 
beings. 
Tfyey recapitulated the contest between P61e and 
Tamapuaa, and related the adventures of several war¬ 
riors, who, with spear in hand, had opposed the vol- 
