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manner responsive to his song 1 , a rustic little drum, 
formed of a calabash, beautifully stained, and 
covered at the head with a piece of shark skin.. ***** 
The governor and his friends were evidently 
pleased with his lay, and the youth seemed repaid 
by their approbation. 
In the morning of the 16th, Messrs. Goodrich 
and Harwood endeavoured to ascertain the height 
of Mouna Huararai, by means of two observations 
at the extremity of a base line of two thousand two 
hundred and thirty feet. They made the height 
of the mountain to be seven thousand eight hun¬ 
dred and twenty-two feet; but their quadrant being 
an inferior one, we thought the height of the moun¬ 
tain greater than that given above, though it is 
never covered with snow. 
The accounts the natives gave us of the roads 
we were to travel, and the effects the short jour¬ 
neys already made, had produced on our shoes, 
convinced us that those we had brought with us 
would be worn out before we had proceeded even 
half way round the island. We therefore provided 
a substitute, by procuring a tough bull’s hide from 
the governor’s store-house, and making ourselves 
rude sandals ; these we afterwards found very ser¬ 
viceable, as they enabled us to travel over large 
tracts of lava with much more expedition and 
comfort than we could possibly have done without 
them. 
At four p. m. the musicians from Kaii again col¬ 
lected on the beach, and the dancer commenced a 
hura , similar to that exhibited on Monday evening. 
We had previously appointed a religious meeting 
for this time, and, about an hour before sun-set, 
proposed to the governor to hold it on the beach, 
where the people were already assembled. He 
