62 POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES, 
were much pleased with a species of tree ferns, 
whose stipes were about five feet long, and the 
stem about fourteen feet high, and one foot in 
diameter. A smart shower of rain (a frequent oc¬ 
currence in the mountains, arrested their further 
progress, and obliged them to return to their 
lodgings, where they arrived about five in the 
afternoon, gratified, though fatigued, by their 
excursion. 
Mr. Bishop called on Thomas Hopu, the native 
teacher, who has for some time resided at Kairua, 
and was pleased to find him patient under the 
inconveniences to which his situation necessarily 
subjects him, and anxious to promote the best inte¬ 
rests of his countrymen. 
29th. The Sabbath morning dawned upon the 
Missionaries at Kairua under circumstances un¬ 
usually animating, and they prepared to spend 
this holy day in extending, as widely as possible, 
their labours among the people around them. 
Mr. Thurston preached in the native language 
twice at the governor's house, to attentive au¬ 
diences. Mr. Bishop and Thomas Hopu pro¬ 
ceeded early in the morning to Kaavaroa, a 
village about fourteen miles distant, on the north 
side of Kearake’kua, (Karakakooa,) where they 
arrived at 11 a. m. Kamakau, chief of the place, 
received them with expressions of gladness, led 
them to his house, and provided refreshments ; 
after which, they walked together to a ranai , 
(house of cocoa-nut leaves,) which he had some 
time before erected for the public worship of 
Jehovah. Here they found about a hundred of 
his people waiting their arrival. Mr. Bishop, 
with the aid of Thomas, preached to them from 
John lii. 16. and endeavoured in the most familiar 
