The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-12-24

--,-:s There was one
broken pitcher, q few i.:.Ne -
49, saJ 49, avoh..I 5od. Tho manner
= ,.h;.h 49,. na..;oes ind whaling cap
tain who had given them sas an 9e SZss-
salt from the brine of his ana PNA
made the big swallow bu1 up IN sne snions
the thought Of their suffer during their ions'
patient waiting for supplid
Now the Morning SD had come. Ine'l
troubles were ended. TheJ we're ready 70 forge'
the past-indeed, it was fo] ptten. They would
not willingly consent that ven this should %
made public, but how else euld the stockhotders
in the Morning Star imagiht the deep, delicious
pleasure, or partake of the rich delight that the
band of Hawaiian missionaries felt rs they well
coined our vessel to their homes. Ka Hoksao,
ea no ka moku o kakou. The past was gone for
ever. They would never see another me.
$ Here is our vessel, the Morning S4 Shebe-
longs to us. She win never let us want.
The mouth of the Omoan Valley. not much
more than a quarter of q mile wide, is NOT bid by
trees to the Sery waters edge, but there aSe few
rods of stony ground, then a few houses, and
there is also quite q little pond whenauehips pro-
cure water. The mission premises, consisting of
three dwelling houses and an open building, the
injecting house of the station looking toward the
setting sun, are situated a short gun shot from
the breakers and only a stones throw from the
steep hill side which forms the southern slope Of
the valley. They are sheltered only by q few tall
cocoanut trees, but directly behind, the tfricket
of luxuriant vegetation begins, while on the
northern side there is a sacred (tabu) enclosure,
(perhaps 1 should say elevation, as it is q plat
form of stones some four feet high,) densely
shaded; the trunk of one of the trees standing on
the dividing line is SO large that three men touch
ing the tips of the fingers of their out stretched
arms could not encompass the half of it. The
houses are all small, with the exception of that of
Mr.. Bicknell, (his before he took . new station
at Hivaoa, and built with bamboo lathing and
is plastered with mortar. They are built Of ma
tive material after the pattern of the grass houses
in Hawaii, only, if anything, more simple two
tall bread-fruit posts at either end of the house
sustain the ridge pole, then four corner posts re-
ceive into deep grooves the cave poles, two other
supporters are placed midway of the length of the
building ; to these posts are tied the rafters. The
thatch has been previously prepared by stringing
bread fruit leaves on bamboo sticks or by splitting
cocoanut leaves ana Dlaiding the two halves to-
gether. These are tied on, and the house is COM
pleted. In the house of Kaiwi there was a parti-
ton made of braided cocoanut leaves, closed by a
door. 1t was entirely unsealed and could easily
be entered by any active person it contained
much of the unused remaining property of the
mission-a cobweb treasury. The p~lastered house
had once been broken iq While Mr.. Biz
the Mission resided here, and while KaiwfW1
general meeting it was again entered, and the
only artjieA in the hoy q cloth partition and a
bed ticking, were stolen.. And now having looked
at the stone walls Of the enclosure, having seen
the church lot, its rank growing weeds, its young
orange trees, its red and yellow pepper, and hay-
ing looked at the mound which marks the resting
place of the Hawaiian wife who chose to die and
be buried on heather soil rather than return to
her kindred and friends,-we have seen all that
is particularly interesting about the mission prem
Uses of Fatuhiva.