hale-boat.

After dinner, without stopping to rest, we mounted our horses, and sped
up the hill to Lahainaluna, a distance of two miles, over a hot, dusty
road, to attend the examination of the native seminary or college there.
Most of the services were conducted in an unknown tongue, but the
answers were prompt, and seemed to be in most instances satisfactory.
After sitting and hearing recitations for about three hours, we left,
and visited some of the rooms of the students. They looked very neat and
clean, many of them having gay patchwork quilts on their beds, and quite
a number of them had our illustrated newspapers pinned on the wall, with
their favorite general occupying a conspicuous place.

The first of May was commencement day. The exercises were held in the
church at Lahaina. We went down about nine. The alumni walked in a
procession to the church, and were a fine-looking, intelligent set of
men. The addresses were very creditable. The audience were attentive and
quiet, and were well-dressed. The singing was very good,--Hawaiian words
set to some of our familiar college tunes, which were sung with a great
deal of spirit.

After the exercises in the church, the alumni had a dinner in the yard
of the church, under a grove of cocoa-nut trees. The foreign guests were
honored with a table by themselves, and were served by students. At the
end of the table was a pig roasted whole, stuffed with greens, baked
with hot stones in one of their ovens in the ground. This dish they call
"luau" [lu-ow]. Besides whole pig, they had other pork, veal, poi,
bread, cake, and cocoa-nut water. The whole dinner was well-served, and
the white guests showed their appreciation of the good things by making
a hearty dinner.

But we must wait for our ride in Lahaina until to-morrow.

XVI.

Lahaina--Kauai.

"Come, aunty," called Alice, "we want to take our ride in Lahaina."

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We started soon after the alumni dinner, and rode down towards the
beach, where we saw the American consul's residence, a cozy, thatched
house, then turned off upon a road leading to the hospital. Here is the
finest grove of cocoa-nut trees to be seen anywhere on the group of
islands. Soon after the arrival of the missionaries, they perceived that
no one planted cocoa-nuts, and that there was danger of the trees dying
out. A missionary was talking to a high chief woman, and said to her,
"Why don't you plant c