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not only visible in every countenance, but fully 
acted out, and all the malignant passions which 
gambling engenders are indulged without restraint. 
We have seen females hazarding their beads, scis¬ 
sors, cloth-beating mallets, and every piece on 
cloth they possessed, except what they wore, on a 
throw of the uru or pahe. In the same throng 
might be frequently seen the farmer, with his o-u, 
and other implements of husbandry; the builder 
of canoes, with his hatchets and adzes; and some 
poor man, with a knife, and the mat on which he 
slept,—all eager to stake every article they pos¬ 
sessed on the success of their favourite player; and 
when they have lost all, we have known them, frantic 
with rage, tear their hair from their heads on the spot. 
This is not all; the sport seldom terminates without 
quarrels, sometimes of a serious nature, ensuing be¬ 
tween the adherents of the different parties. 
Since schools have been opened in the islands, 
and the natives have been induced to direct their 
attention to Christian instruction and intellectual 
improvement, we have had the satisfaction to ob¬ 
serve these games much less followed than for¬ 
merly ; and we hope the period is fast approaching, 
when they shall only be the healthful exercises of 
children; and when the time and strength devoted 
to purposes so useless, and often injurious, shall 
be employed in cultivating their fertile soil, 
augmenting their sources of individual and social 
happiness, and securing to themselves the enjoy¬ 
ment of the comforts and privileges of civilized 
and Christian life. 
After travelling about an hour, through a country 
which appeared more thickly inhabited than that 
over which we had passed in the morning, we 
came to Kapauku, a pleasant village belonging to 
