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MISSIONARY TOUR 
village containing 100 houses. Mr. Thurston preached 
twice to the people. 
In the afternoon of the 25th, the brig Nio arrived 
from Oahu, intending to remain five or six days, and 
then return. 
About five p. m. Mr. Thurston set out on a visit to 
the inland district of Waimea, having been furnished 
with a guide by Mr. Young. It was dark when he 
reached Ouli, a place belonging to the latter, where he 
put up for the night. 
After worship with the people, on the morning of the 
26th, Mr. Thurston walked on to Kalaloa, the resi¬ 
dence of the chief of Waimea, Kumuokapiki, (Stump of 
Cabbage.) Leaving Kalaloa, he walked on to Waia- 
kea, from thence to Waikaloa, Pukalani, and Puukapu, 
which is sixteen or eighteen miles from the sea-shore, 
and is the last village in the district of Waimea. At 
these places he addressed the people. 
The soil over which he had travelled was fertile, well 
watered, and capable of sustaining many thousand in¬ 
habitants. In his walks he had numbered 220 houses, 
and the present population is probably between eleven 
and twelve hundred. 
The surface of the country is gently undulated, tole¬ 
rably free from rocks, and easy of cultivation. In this 
district, and throughout the divisions of Hamakua and 
Kohala, together with the greater part of Hiro, the 
plough might be introduced with advantage, and the 
productions of intertropical climates raised in great 
abundance and excellent quality, as the sugar-cane, 
and other indigenous plants, grown at Waimea, are 
unusually large. 
From Puukapu he directed his steps towards the 
