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reading, of which the periodical publications sent fromAmerica , and our united libraries, form a tolerable col-lection. I then visit the schools, call on the chiefs, andafterwards walk ' to our garden, about a half milefrom the teach, on the plantation given us by Karai-moku, on our first arrival at Lahaina . This I have suc-ceeded in reducing to a regular form, have enclosed itby rows of bananas, planted the grape, pine-apple,orange, and tamarind, besides a variety of vegetables,and some choice shrubs and flowers ; and in its cultiva-tion and improvement have great amusement, and muchpromised future delight. In these walks I am often

accompanied by H- and C-, while B—— is

engaged in a fine school kept by her every afternoon,in the chapel adjoining our yard.

As to our evenings, though it is now our winter, theyare ushered in with little of that luxury of comfort ,which the Christian poet must often have felt, before hecould so sweetly have sung,

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,

Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, '

And, while the bubbling and loud hissing urnThrows up a steamy column, and the cupsThat cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,

So let us welcome peaceful evening in :

Still evening is the pleasantest portion of the day. Ouryard is no longer crowded by noisy natives, whosechiefs are lounging about our writing-desks and work-tables. C-forgets his mischief and his play, in the

sweetness of infantile sleep ; all out of doors is silent,except the restless surf; and we are left without inter-ruption, renewedly to apply ourselves to this unformed