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was unusually still; not a canoe was seen in the 
bay, and the natives seemed to have left their 
customary labours and amusements, to spend the 
day as directed by the governor. Mr. Bishop spent 
half an hour with him this morning, explaining in 
English the 21st and 22d chapters of Revelation. 
I joined them at breakfast, having arrived at 
Kairua about an hour before daylight. I had left 
Towaihae on the preceding day at six in the morn¬ 
ing, in a canoe kindly furnished by Mr. Young. 
About nine a. m. I stopped at Kaparaoa, a small 
village on the beach, containing twenty-two 
houses, where I found the people preparing their 
food for the ensuing day, on which they said the 
governor had sent word for them to do no work, 
neither cook any food. When the people were 
collected, I addressed them, and, after answering a 
number of inquiries, proceeded. 
At Kaparaoa I saw a number of curiously carved 
wooden idols, which formerly belonged to an adja¬ 
cent temple. I asked the natives if they would 
part with any? They said, Yes; and I should 
have purchased one, but had no means of convey¬ 
ing it away, for it was an unwieldy log of heavy 
wood, twelve or fourteen feet long, curiously 
carved, in rude and frightful imitation of the 
human figure. 
After remaining there till two p. m. I left them 
making preparation to keep the Sabbath-day, ac¬ 
cording to the orders they had received from the 
governor. 
About four in the afternoon I landed at Kihoro, 
a straggling village, inhabited principally by fisher¬ 
men. A number of people collected, to whom I 
addressed a short discourse, from 1 John i. 7.—- 
This village exhibits another monument of the 
