NOTES.
[{0}] A native word used to signify an old resident.
[{14}] A Frugiferous bat.
[{28}] The kahili is shaped like an enormous bottle brush. The fines are sometimes twenty feet high, with handles twelve or fifteen feet long, covered with tortoiseshell and whale tooth ivory. The upper part is formed of a cylinder of wicker work about a foot in diameter, on which red, black, and yellow feathers are fastened. These insignia are carried in procession instead of banners, and used to be fixed in the ground near the temporary residence of the king or chiefs. At the funeral of the late king seventy-six large and small kahilis were carried by the retainers of chief families.
[{40}] A week after her sailing, this unlucky ship put back with some mysterious ailment, and on her final arrival at San Francisco, her condition was found to be such that it was a marvel that she had made the passage at all.
[{44}] Dear old craft! I would not change her now for the finest palace which floats on the Hudson, or the trimmest of the Hutchesons’ beautiful West Highland fleet.
[{47}] This temperature is, of course, in shallow water. The United States surveying vessel, Tuscarora, lately left San Diego, California, shaping a straight course for Honolulu, and found a nearly uniform temperature of from 33° to 34° Fahrenheit at all depths below 1100 fathoms. The following table gives a good idea of the temperature of ocean water in this region of the Pacific:--
100 . . 64° 7
200 . . 48° 7
300 . . 42° 4
400 . . 40° 4
500 . . 39° 4
600 . . 38° 6
700 . . 38° 3
800 . . 37° 5
900 . . 36° 6
1000 . . 35° 6
1200 . . 35° 4
3054 . . 33° 2
The Tuscarora found the extraordinary depth of 3023 fathoms at a distance of only 43 miles from Molokai.
[{59a}] Metrosideros Polymorpha.