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or rather, the huts of the islanders, arranged without any plan,
sometimes a few together, or one by one, are built of poles in the
shape of a house roof, set directly into the ground and cov-
ered with long grass. Window openings are in but few guts.
However, almost every one has two doors at opposite sides
of the hut. The doors are curtained only with mats. The
huts of the common people are two to four square sazhens in
size. The royal ones, which belong to their lordships, are
much more spacious and have approximately 20 square sazhens.
The inside of these huts is the same everywhere, that is,
the floor is covered with every clean patterned grass mats.
At one end it has an elevation, which is seperated from the
other part of the hut by a curtain of the same material, and
serves as a bedroom. The whole difference between the royal
huts and the common ones is that the walls of the
royal ones are covered with mats. The settlement seems very
large because [even] the porest Sandwicher must have two
huts, one for himself and his sons, and the other for his
wives and daughters. However, the king and the lords have
a seperate hut for every wife and daughter.

At a distance of three versts to the right of the settle-
ment, right near the foot of the mountains, American mission-
aries of the Moravian bretheren sect established with the
permission of the late king, Tameamea I [Kamehameha I] their
dwelling, consisting at that time of two small wooden houses
with offices, and of a large hut built as a house and serving