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to Kairua, expecting to obtain a passage to Oahu, 
in a native vessel called the pilot-boat. 
Before daylight on the 22d, we were roused by 
vast multitudes of people passing through the dis¬ 
trict 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 thou¬ 
sand 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 deposited the wood at the store¬ 
house, 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 com¬ 
fortably warm, and is probably impregnated with 
sulphur : various medicinal qualities are ascribed to 
it by those who have used it. 
The natives of this district manufacture large 
quantities of salt, by evaporating the sea w T ater. 
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 
