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those who had come down to the beach to bid us fare¬ 
well, we were safely launched through the surf. We 
left Waipio, deeply impressed with a sense of the kind 
treatment we had received, and with feelings of sym¬ 
pathy for the mental darkness and degradation of the 
interesting people by whom it was inhabited. We 
could not but hope that they would soon enjoy the 
constant light of Christian instruction, and participate 
in every Christian privilege. A wide field of useful¬ 
ness is here presented to a Christian missionary, and 
we sincerely hope the directors of missionary opera¬ 
tions will have means sufficient at their disposal to send 
a missionary to this, and every other place where the 
people are so anxious to be instructed. 
The shore, along which the canoe was paddled, was 
extremely bold and romantic. In many places the 
mountains rose almost perpendicularly 500 or 600 feet 
above the sea. Their steep sides were nearly destitute 
of verdure, as it was the dry season, yet, at unequal 
distances of a quarter or half a mile from each other, 
beautiful water-falls and varied cascades flowed from 
the top into the ocean below. The rocks seemed com¬ 
posed of various strata of vesicular lava, and in seve¬ 
ral places the water was seen oozing out between the 
strata in the face of the rocks some hundred feet below 
their summits. Large stones and fragments of rocks 
in some places lay scattered along the base of the pre¬ 
cipice, just above the water's edge; but frequently 
the mountain sides seemed to descend perpendicularly 
to a great depth under water. We saw several groups 
of natives passing along on the large stones at the foot 
of the mountains, and whenever they came to a place 
where the deep waters extended to the base of the 
