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multitudes of people passing through the district from 
Waimea with sandal wood, which had been cut in the 
adjacent mountains for Karaimoku, by the people of 
Waimea, and which the people of Kohala, as far as the 
north point, had been ordered to bring down to his 
storehouse on the beach, for the purpose of its being 
shipped to Oahu. There were between two and three 
thousand men, carrying each from one to six pieces of 
sandal wood, according to their size and weight. It 
was generally tied on their backs by bands made of ti 
leaves, passed over the shoulders and under the arms, 
and fastened across their breast. When they had de¬ 
posited the wood at the storehouse, they departed to 
their respective homes. 
Between seven and eight in the morning, we walked 
to the warm springs, a short distance to the southward 
of the large heiaus, and enjoyed a most refreshing 
bathe. These springs rise on the beach a little below 
high-water mark, of course they are overflowed by 
every tide; but at low tide, the warm water bubbles 
up through the sand, fills a small kind of cistern, made 
with stones piled close together on the side towards 
the sea, and affords a very agreeable bathing place. 
The water is comfortably warm, and is probably im¬ 
pregnated with sulphur: various medicinal qualities 
are ascribed to it by those who have used it. 
The natives of this district manufacture large quan¬ 
tities of salt, by evaporating the sea water. We saw 
a number of their pans, in the disposition of which 
they display great ingenuity. They have generally 
one large pond near the sea, into which the water flows 
by a channel cut through the rocks, or is carried thither 
by the natives in large calabashes. After remaining 
