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arose from the gently undulated surface, while groups 
of hills, clothed with trees of various foliage, agreeably 
diversified the scene. The shore, which was about a 
mile to the eastward of us, was occasionally lined with 
the spiral pandanus, the waving cocoa-nut grove, or 
the clustering huts of the natives. At half-past four w e 
reached Kahuwai, where we sat down and took some 
refreshment, while Makoa was engaged in bringing the 
people of the place together. About one hundred and 
fifty assembled around the door, and were addressed. 
After conversing some time, we travelled in an inland 
direction to Honoruru, a small village situated in the 
midst of a wood, where we arrived just at the setting of 
the sun. 
Whilst the kind people at the house where we put up 
were preparing our supper, we sent and invited the 
inhabitants of the next village to come and hear the 
word we had to speak to them. They soon arrived ; 
the large house in which we had taken up our lodgings 
was filled, and a, discourse was delivered from John 
xii. 46. “ I am come a light into the world,” &c. 
We afterwards spent an hour in conversation and 
prayer with the people of these sequestered villages, 
who had perhaps never before been visited by foreign¬ 
ers, and then lay down on our mats to rest. 
We arose early on the 8th, and Mr. Thurston held 
morning worship with the friendly people of the place. 
Although I had been much indisposed through the 
night, we left Honoruru soon after six A. m. and, tra¬ 
velling slowly towards the sea-shore, reached Waia- 
kaheula about eight, where I was obliged to stop, and 
lie down under the shade of a canoe-house near the 
shore. Messrs. Thurston and Bishop walked up to the 
