Nor in his works the Maker view,

Then lose his works in Him?
By me, when I behold HIM not,

Or love Him not when I behold,

Be all I ever knew forgot;

My pulse stand still, my heart grow cold !”

After this memorable ascent and return from Halea-ka-la, our party were all kindly cared for by Rev. Mr. Green at Makawao, including the United States Commissioner, George Brown, since lost, as it is supposed, in a Typhoon, on his return to America by way of China.

In the vicinity of Mr. Green's residence at Makawao is the largest sugar-making establishment at these Islands, except that on Kauai. It belongs to an enterprising and upright American, who has procured a lease from government, on favorable terms, of upward of two hundred acres of excellent land. One hundred and fifty are under cultivation with sugar-cane. He has cast-iron cylinders for his mill, which is turned by oxen. A large part of the fuel for his furnaces is the refuse ground cane. Natives are employed as laborers, at a rate of from twelve to twenty cents per day.

The sugar has to be carted either twelve or eighteen miles to a landing-place, where it sells for three cents a pound. It is clean and well granulated, and much superior in quality to the common West India brown sugar. Much of the cane-juice is not made into sugar, but boiled into syrup or molasses, and sold for eight and ten cents per gallon. It is a much finer article

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than that which sells in America for thirty and thirtyfive cents.

It needs, however, the best thrift and husbandry to keep such an establishment out of debt and make it productive. How long the land will bear cane well without manuring, remains to be seen. The Koloa plantation on Kauai is said to be running out, and no longer to yield a dividend to its holders. Extensive manuring, it is thought, will be necessary in order to keep up its productiveness. The high lands all along the south side of East Maui, from Kahikinui to Haiku, are very fine for farming. It is the region in which most of the Irish potatoes are raised for the ships at Lahaina, and all the wheat raised at the Islands is grown here. Its climate, also, is highly salubrious, and it will yet be the garden of the Sandwich Islands, from which not only whale-ships, but the hotels of San Francisco, shall obtain their supplies.

Were it a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, as well as a land that drinketh water of the rain of heaven, it would be attractive to foreign settlers above any other district in this group. But, owing to the cavernous. and cellular character of the rock, as in every volcanic country, there cannot form reservoirs in the high lands that might be feeders to wells dug lower down; but the rain either at once runs off in some places on the surface, or percolates quickly through and settles to a level with the sea.

Hence there are no wells in Hawaii-nei, except on coral bottoms nearly at a level with the ocean, as at Honolulu, Lahaina, and the mission station on Molokai. The springs from which natives drink all along the sea, especially on the leeward side of the Islands, are so brackish that their water is hardly better than a dose of salts to a man unused to it. Up in the mountains, it is found in pools made by cavities in the rocks.

In returning from Makawao to Wailuku, a distance of twenty miles, you may take a romantic path down to the sea by the way of Haiku, through dells and groves of the silvery kukui, and the deep-green moonleaved koa, with its beautiful mimosa-like blossoms. Nearly on a level with the sea, you will cross several long, nicely smoothed artificial furrows, in which the natives used to play at ulu-maika, a kind of game of quoits; and you will ride over fine white sand-hills, as pure and crinkled as a drift of new-fallen snow, and as beautiful and barren, too, as any ever seen in Araby the Blest.

One sand-hill in that vicinity has been an old burying-ground or battle-place, now laid bare by the winds. Skulls, having jaws in perfect preservation, with thirty-four teeth sound, (showing that the savage practice of knocking out teeth did not prevail when they were inhumed,) and all the bones of the human body, some of them of gigantic size, lie bleaching all around.

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I collected a few for the benefit of comparative anatomy, and rode off with a skull dangling at my pommel, to give to some head-hunting phrenologist; not, however, without certain compunctions as to the propriety of transporting the dead, and separating these disjecta membra of our common humanity. Be it that they belong only to the ignobile vulgus, or to forgotten savage chiefs, yet are they remnants of a mortal that is to put on immortality, of a corruption that is to inherit incorruption, alike with the guarded bones of the world's proudest kings, whose mausoleum must be a pyramid or structure of marble.

Should a passion for bone-worship ever get in vogue here, as in the Old World, the wily priest can metamorphose some of these into good Saint Anthony's, and save the trouble of importation from his tomb in Egypt.

Hamlet's reflections are so natural, though abrupt and moulded by his passion, that every one must have had them in turning up an unknown skull, or observing for the first time the bleaching remains of the dead -“That had a tongue in it, and could sing once. This might be my lord such-a-one that praised my lord sucha-one's horse, when he meant to beg it. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion in the earth? To what base uses may we return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole? As thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make

loam and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?

Imperial Cæsar dead, and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that the earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!"

As you get into the valley and vega of Wailuku, you see numerous remains of old kihapais, or cultivated lots, and divisions of land now waste, showing how much more extensive formerly was the cultivation, and proportionally numerous the people, than now. It is so all through this foodful region. From accounts kept one year by Mr. Green, he estimated that the births were to the deaths as one to five; and he says the population has fallen off very greatly since the time he was first settled here.

In the year 1842, in the field of Rev. Lorenzo Lyons, on the Island of Hawaii, out of a population of five thousand six hundred, there were four hundred and thirty-four deaths, and ninety-eight births; or the births to the deaths as one to four and two-sevenths. In the year 1848, the year of devastation by measles, the excess of deaths over births in the whole kingdom was estimated at six thousand four hundred and sixtyfive, being an annual decrease of about eight per cent.

If foreigners ever supersede the native race here, they may cultivate rice in the present inundated kalopatches, and without any change. A family of Chinamen are raising it in this valley in considerable quan