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It must have cost no small exertion to have brought these 
heavy guns up here; but it was a work of Tamehameha's, 
who seems to have had no idea of difficulty which was not 
to be overcome. The valleys between the hills in the im¬ 
mediate neighbourhood of Honoruru are in a very high state 
of cultivation, and now afford many exotic fruits which no 
prejudice has prevented the natives from adopting and using 
as freely as their own native vegetables. 
May 17.—We made an excursion on foot to-day again to 
the hills; we were charmed with the variety and strangeness 
of the vegetation, and not a little pleased to find our old ac¬ 
quaintance the bilberry among what appeared to us the finer 
sort of plants. On our return we paid a visit to Nalii the 
second, or vice chief of Karakakua, who, with his wife Iva- 
peolani, is here at present to attend the council which must 
be held before the little king can be acknowledged, and 
which is only delayed till Karaimoku’s health permits him 
to undergo the fatigue of it. Their house is very neat and 
orderly. They are perhaps the best informed Christians 
among the whole body of converts. They are pretty con¬ 
stantly attended by a certain native teacher, whom we con¬ 
sidered as a very great bore, but he is probably the agent 
of good. Nalii was extremely inquisitive about England, 
and sought from us explanations of many things which the 
