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called the Armourer *, whose employment it is to catch and 
kill the wild cattle and cure beef, which he does very skil¬ 
fully. The travellers were well pleased to find excellent 
steaks there, which they toasted on a stick, and on which, 
with the bread and other provisions which they carried with 
them, they regaled themselves heartily, and then proceeded 
through the forest. On the upper edge they found some 
extraordinarily large raspberries, and strawberries very like 
our alpine strawberry, but with little flavour. Unfortunately 
they were surrounded by mist almost as soon as they 
emerged from the forest, and could not, therefore, behold 
the glorious view that must be visible in fair weather, of 
the ocean and the adjacent Islands. At sunset they halted, 
and the natives quickly built a hut with branches of trees, 
and made fire by rubbing two pieces of dry wood together. 
'Fhe cold appeared to them intense, though during the 
night the thermometer only indicated 40° of Fahrenheit. 
The next morning, at three o’clock, the party started to 
pursue their way to the summit. They had scarcely pro¬ 
ceeded for two hours, when the lieutenant and purser were 
so overcome with sleep that they lay down on the bare lava 
rock to rest, and only the botanist and missionary proceeded, 
* This man had been in the service of Tamehamcha at Oahu, but for some 
misdemeanour had been banished to Hawaii. 
