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nious and useful ladder. The canoes of the place were 
light and small, seldom carrying more than one man in 
each. A number were just landing, as we arrived at 
the place. Two men went down, and stood close to 
the water’s edge, on the leeward or southern side of 
the rock. The canoes were paddled up one at a time. 
The person in each, then watching a convenient oppor¬ 
tunity, rowed swiftly to shore, when the rolling billow 
carried the canoe upon the rock, and it was seized by 
the two men who stood there to receive it. At the 
same instant that it was grasped on each side by the 
men on the rock, the one in the canoe, who steered it, 
jumped into the sea, swam to the shore, and assisted 
them in carrying it up the ladder to the top of the cliff, 
where they placed it upon curiously carved stools, 
made of the wood of the erythrina, and returned to the 
rock to await the arrival of another canoe. In this 
way five or six were brought up while we stood looking 
at them, and I took a sketch of their useful contrivance. 
We then walked to the house of the head man, which 
was large, and contained several families. A number 
of people soon gathered round us ; and when they had 
expressed their wishes to hear what we had to say, I 
addressed them on the subject of our religion. 
Leaving Kehena, we walked on to Kamaili, a plea¬ 
sant village, standing in a gently sloping valley, cul¬ 
tivated and shaded by some large cocoa-nut trees. 
Here we stopped to take breakfast, having travelled 
about four hours and a half. The hospitable inhabit¬ 
ants, at the request of our guide, soon brought us some 
fresh fish, a nice pig, with potatoes and taro, and a 
calabash of good water. The people who were not 
employed on their plantations, or in fishing, afterwards 
