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H~anatakuua Bsv.-Honolulu Again
The Morning Star kedged ont of Hanaahi har-
Dor ON Saturday. The kedge was slipped and a
boats crew Of Marquesans sent to recover it.
Seeing they made but little progress, the mate
Wa dispatched to assist them ; he found the boat
anchored 70 the buoy and her crew asleep
IL ID only . short sail to Hanatakuua. The
coast, with the exception of one valley (where the
people were engaged in war, four men killed and
wounded in forty days), was composed of high
cliffs OF the common red, black and whitish vari-
cites of Volcanic rock, spotted by great numbers
Of the tropic and other white sea birds.
In Ha1atakuua Bay a small coasting schooner,
built, owned and commanded by a ma
tive of Lahaina, but under French colors, was at
In beating mp from Nukahiva she had
carried away her jibboom, she had also been
aground and lost her false keel, but the captain
vas in excellent spirits, and soon after sailed
again for the windward.
Hanatakuua was pronounced BY all to be the
most beautiful and desirable of all the bays Wis
tied by The Morning Star more easy of access,
80 IL -on6C& VI 6CtStit& Ahuc way edic III I'LL
bat the stormy season. One vessel, a whaler, had
bcen wrecked here in a northern storm. On the
eastern side is a large stream affording an excel
lent Watering place for ships. A large cocanut
grove stands at the mouth of the bay, which
seemed Waikiki over again, The valley was one
continued grove Of breadfruit and cocoanuts ;
there were other trees, but by no means so nu-
nerous. The houses were some little distance re-
moved inland. They were neat, and after the
idsas Of their owners, comfortable. The land
was vailed to some extent and excellently watered.
Stones Of all shapes and sizes ~abounded, Of one
invaRiable black color. We saw the fortresses
built Of etones, also trees which had been wounded
By the balls of the other party. When the can
non (avsd from the wreck) began to attack, the
defenders abandoned the fortress and hid behind
. Hill. Yet the chief whose protection Kauwea-
loha enjoys, gained the victory, because his party
held out the longest. He is a noble specimen of
the physical man, and has the bearing of a king.
He has won honor for himself, having assumed
the names las 10 their cussom) of thirteen men,
who have either been killed or wounded by him
in war. The house of Kauwealoha was framed
in Hawaiian style, but no furniture whatever
save one chest. The Morning Star brought civil
LIKED comforts to this missionary home also. Di-
rectly in front of the house were two most beau
|tiful shade trees (ihi), whose foliage was 90 dense
tLat no ray of the sun could shine upon the sacred
rocks which lay beneath them. 1t was under the
Nshade of these trees that our Sabbath services were
held Here the natives listened with evident
pleasure to the hymns sung during worship, espe-
cially to those sung by the crew of the Morning
o. E--ls-l H. - L. k---lk L. NJ
and Mrs. Bingham.
The feature of this valley, which was most pc
~euliar, was a hula (dance) ground-very spa
cious, very level smooth and hard, and shaded by
four OK Eve magnificent trees. In the center was
IA uised platform of stones. It's dimensions thirty
- by eighteen The face stones being smooth,
|eome nin-none less than six-feet in length by
three in width. The stones must have been
brought from q distant cliff (p.K) but who
chapel the stones, how they were brought there
(for they were of immense weight), or who built
the sacred platform. were questions the Marquee
sans cuuld no more answer than VIII built the
pyramids. Here was also q tall structure, about
Elk feet square at the base, twenty-five feet high
and two and a half feet square at the top, built
|of poles and matched with breadfruit leaves. 1t
uccnly about thirty years old. The building
D0f . sacred character, but exactly what was
10 mace plain.
me mission m TINS place was only three months
pa, y, 'ns e.'e' .a' very .'nay alspossa ano
puA' noa'e iol 'ne lSepe'n {, 'ne -no'"'"y
&@ PeoPie..i'noo' tne kno"ieoge OF Aau"ea-
p'nA-n mn'onaly. !" was = very pleasant sur
Pln ey'aine mere iooKs ia'orao,e ior 'ne
.~1y "o1A' anu .ef'Anty 'he 'aney = one
% S@s"ss PseasAns P'aces' . mucn 80 tnas 'ne
cEe~ "ooio eiadty nave remained q Gay OF Two
ionger' DUE the freight was al discharged the
water vas ON BOARD ana the Morning Ndr In
Pc 20 ses 70 Micronesia-
On Iuesoey, June %, 1901, the fuoTn'ng
~ ssfs iianatakuua one nad 70 return sne
m@'ons1'en 20 tneil stations oe'ore sne c'aid say