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of them : that after his death he was deified, and 
a wooden image of him placed in the large temple 
at Kairua, to which offerings of hogs, fish, and 
cocoa-nuts were frequently presented. Orono- 
puha and Makanuiairomo , two friends and dis¬ 
ciples of Koreamoku, continued to practise the 
art after the death of their master, and were also 
deified after death, particularly because they were 
frequently successful in driving away the evil 
spirits by which the people were afflicted and 
threatened with death. This is the account they 
have- of the first use of herbs medicinally ; and to 
these deified men the prayers of the kahuna are 
addressed, when medicine is administered to the 
sick. 
During the day we examined various parts of 
the district on the western side, and sounded in 
several places along the channel leading into the 
bay* The district of Waiakea, and the bay of the 
same name, the Whye-a-te-a bay of Vancouver,* 
form the southern boundary of the division of 
Hiro, are situated on the north-east coast of 
Hawaii, and distant about twenty or twenty-five 
miles from the eastern point of the island. The 
highest peak of Mouna-Kea bears due west from 
the sandy beach, at the bottom or south end of 
the bay. In the centre, or rather towards the 
south-east side, is a small island connected with 
the shore by a number of rocks, and covered with 
cocoa-nut trees. South-west of this small island, 
the native vessels usually anchor, and are thereby 
sheltered from all winds to the eastward of north- 
* This bay is now called Byron's Bay, having been 
visited and explored by Captain Lord Byron, on his late 
voyage to the Sandwich Islands in his majesty's ship 
Blonde, 
