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teach them to use the sulphur that is produced abundantly 
in Hawaii. It is to be hoped, also, that the spiritual doc¬ 
trine that those gentlemen are inculcating, and the habit of 
universal clothing,-which the chiefs who have travelled are 
desirous of introducing, will check the vice and its con¬ 
sequent evils which have been too often mentioned and 
lamented by former visitors to require a more serious notice 
here. 
Our coming to reside on shore has been the signal for 
all the petty traffickers in curiosities to gather round us. 
Feather tippets and cloaks, war-helmets, weapons, mother- 
of-pearl fish-hooks, and even gods are brought to market; 
and as the latter article has been in much demand, the 
handicraftsmen have set to work and manufactured a few 
new ones, just as good as the old, but that they have 
never been worshipped—and do not the antique-makers in 
Home do the same ? The stone hatchets are also becoming 
very rare, but they were never of the best sort of hatchet- 
stone though of the same nature. The edges of these 
hatchets appear to have been cut while the stone was in a 
soft state—we do not comprehend, however, how it hardens, 
whether nature did all, or whether she was assisted;— 
however that might be, the workmanship executed with 
* Axe-stone. 
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