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to go into it. We therefore proceeded to Maui, for the 
double purpose of getting water, of which we begin to feel 
the want, and seeing Kahumanu, the widow of Tamehameha, 
though not the mother of Kilio Riho, who partakes with 
Karaimoku the regency of the Islands. 
May 4.—At daylight this morning, while the snowy 
peak of Maouna Keah was still visible, we discovered the 
double-hilled Maui, and coasted along- it almost all day, 
that we might reach the harbour of Lahaina, which is in 
the most populous and fertile district of the Island. The 
eastern part appears very beautiful; the slopes are well 
wooded, and there are broad valleys, and deep ravines, and 
lofty rocks, from which several streams fall in broken cas¬ 
cades directly into the sea, and the whole is enlivened by 
numerous huts and plantations. About six p. m. w r e an¬ 
chored close to the shore in Lahaina bay, lat. 21 ° N. long. 
156’ 5 ' W. It was very beautiful: groups of trees grow 
down close to the sea, and many of them, by the novelty and 
beauty of their foliage, delighted us: there was the bread 
fruit* mingled with the cocoa nutf ; the elegant and useful 
kouj; the banana the wauti||, of which native cloth is 
* Artocarpus. f Cocos Nucifera. j Cordia Orientalis. 
§ Musa paradisaica, several varieties ; among the rest one very small, which 
the natives dry (there is one similar in Guzerat). |] Broussonettia papyrifera. 
