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there some time, it is conducted into a number of 
smaller pans about six or eight inches in depth, which 
are made with great care, and frequently lined with 
large evergreen leaves, in order to prevent absorption. 
Along the narrow banks or partitions between the dif¬ 
ferent pans, we saw a number of large evergreen leaves 
placed. They were tied up at each end, so as to re¬ 
semble a shallow dish, and filled with sea water, in 
which the crystals of salt were abundant. 
Although salt was never made by the Society Island¬ 
ers, who used as a substitute the sea water, in a cocoa- 
nut shell-full of which they always dipped their food 
before eating it, it has ever been an essential article 
with the Sandwich Islanders, who eat it very freely 
with their food, and use large quantities in preserving 
their fish. They have, however, besides what they 
make, salt lakes, which yield them large supplies. 
The surplus thus furnished, they dispose of to vessels 
touching at the islands, or export to the Russian set¬ 
tlements on the north-west coast of America, where it 
is in great demand for curing fish, &c. 
The facility which many parts of the coast afford for 
this purpose, and the length of the dry season, are 
favourable to the process; and, together with the ready 
market which the natives find for it, will probably in¬ 
duce them, as they advance in civilization, to manufac¬ 
ture it in much greater abundance. 
In the afternoon, Mr. Goodrich returned from Kairua, 
and informed us that the pilot-boat was at Keauhou, 
and would sail for Oahu in a fortnight. He also 
brought the more pleasing intelligence, that the gover¬ 
nor was engaged in building a chapel for the public 
worship of God at Kairua, having at the same time 
