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contrasted with pagan ignorance and misery, and 
several exclaimed at the conclusion of the ser¬ 
vice, Oia no. Poereere makou. E ake makou i 
hoomaramaramct ia. 6i So it is. We are dark. 
We desire to be enlightened.” In the evening* 
we were so favoured as to procure a calabash-full 
of fresh water from the caves in the mountains* 
where it had filtered through the strata of lava, 
and was received into vessels placed there for that 
purpose. It tasted bitter, from standing long in 
the calabashes; but yet it was a luxury, for our 
thirst was great, notwithstanding the quantities of 
water w r e had drank during the day. About sun¬ 
set we ate some of our raw fish and half-baked 
potatoes. When it began to grow dark, we con¬ 
cluded the day with prayer, imploring the gracious 
influences of the Holy Spirit to follow our feeble 
attempts to declare his truth, and make it effec¬ 
tual to the spiritual welfare of the people. We 
afterwards lay down upon our mats, but passed 
an uncomfortable night, from the swarms of vermin 
which infested the house, and the indisposition in¬ 
duced by the nature of the food and water we had 
taken since leaving the volcano. 
Wlien, on the morning of the 4th, we had 
passed Punau, Leapuki, and Kamomoa, the 
country began to wear a more agreeable aspect. 
Groves of cocoa-nuts ornamented the projecting 
points of land, clumps of kou-trees appeared in 
various directions, and the habitations of the na¬ 
tives were also thickly scattered over the coast. 
At noon we passed through Pulana, where we 
saw a large heiau called Wakaura , Red Mouth, 
or Red-feather Mouth, built by Tamehameha, and 
dedicated to Tairi, his war-god. Human sacri¬ 
fices, we were informed, were occasionally offered 
