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those fond attachments, that in civilized and Christian 
life endear the different members of kindred and family 
to each other, appear scarcely to have existed. The 
absence of relative affections shewn by Kahavari, who, 
notwithstanding the entreaties of his wife, could leave 
her, his children, his mother, and his sister, to certain 
destruction, meets with no reprehension ; neither is any 
censure passed on his unjust seizure of the canoe be¬ 
longing to his brother, who was engaged in saving his 
own family, while his adroitness in escaping the dread¬ 
ful calamity of which he had been the sole cause, 
is applauded in terms too indelicate to be recorded. 
The natives pointed out a number of rocks in the 
sea, which, they said, were thrown by P61e to sink the 
canoe in which Kahavari escaped. 
After travelling a short distance, we saw the Bu o 
Kahavari , (Hill of Kahavari,) the place where he 
stopped, after sliding down-hill, and perceiving the 
goddess pursuing him. It was a black frowning crater, 
about 100 feet high, with a deep gap in its rim on the 
eastern side, from which the course of the current of 
lava could be distinctly traced. Our way now lay over 
a very rugged tract of country. Sometimes for a mile 
or two we were obliged to walk along on the top of a 
wali four feet high and about three feet wide, formed 
of fragments of lava that had been collected from the 
surface of the enclosures which these walls surround¬ 
ed. We were, however, cheered with a beautiful pros¬ 
pect ; for the land, which rose gradually towards the 
mountains a few r miles to the westward of us, presented 
an almost enchanting appearance. The plain was co¬ 
vered with verdure; and as we advance, a woody 
eminence, probably some ancient crater, frequently 
