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it ready in frame from the United States; and she paid 
a considerable price for it. While we were here, Boki 
supplied us in profusion with every thing that the Island 
produced; and Marini, by his orders, furnished us with 
milk, butter, grapes, melons, and bananas. 
One of the officers having promised to procure a skull 
or skulls for a phrenological friend, sent some natives up 
the hill called Lahahi, where the dead used to be deposited, 
to procure some. The ascent is steep and difficult; and the 
new Christianity of the natives has not yet so entirely done 
away with the ancient superstition, but that our kanakas 
stripped off every particle of clothing before they went, that 
they might not incense the spirits of the place. 
Our increased intercourse with the natives has made us 
sensible of the singular effect produced on their language 
by the introduction of English names for the various things 
with which they have become familiar since the discovery of 
the Islands. We must not call their language poor, because 
it sufficed for all the necessary purposes of speech in the 
state of society to which they had advanced; and even to 
something more—for poetry was already cultivated, and the 
pleasantness both of rhythm and rhyme had been felt. But 
many indeed are the new words, introduced as their wants 
and the means of gratifying them have increased ; and these 
