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obtained all tlieir medicinal herbs from the gods, who 
also taught him the use of them : that after his death 
he was deified, and a wooden image of him placed in the 
large temple at Kairua, to which offerings of hogs, fish, 
and cocoa-nuts were frequently presented. Oronopuha 
and MaJcanuiairono, two friends and disciples of Ko- 
reamoku, continued to practise the art after the death 
of their master, and were also deified after death, 
particularly because they were frequently successful 
in driving away the evil spirits by which the people 
were afflicted and threatened with death. This is the 
account they have of the first use of herbs medicinally; 
and to these deified men the prayers of the kahuna are 
addressed, when medicine is administered to the sick. 
During the day we examined various parts of the 
district on the western side, and sounded in several 
places along the channel leading into the bay. The 
district of Waiakea, and the bay of the same name, the 
Whye-a-te-a Bay of Vancouver,* form the southern 
boundary of the division of Hiro, are situated on the 
north-east coast of Hawaii, and distant about twenty 
or twenty-five miles from the eastern point of the 
island. The highest peak of Mouna-Kea bears due 
west from the sandy beach, at the bottom or south 
end of the bay. In the centre, or rather towards the 
south-east side, is a small island connected with the 
shore by a number of rocks, and covered with cocoa- 
nut trees. South-west of this small island the native 
vessels usually anchor, and are thereby sheltered from 
* Recently in some of the public journals this bay has been 
called Byron’s Bay, having been visited and explored by Cap¬ 
tain Lord Byron, on his late voyage to the Sandwich Islands 
in his majesty’s ship Blonde. 
