and Mrs. Coan arrived in Hilo, where Mr. and Mrs.
Lyman had been toiling for some time, and had produced a marked
change on the social condition of the people. Mr. C. was a fervid
speaker, and physically very robust, and when he had mastered the
language, he undertook much of the travelling and touring, and Mr.
Lyman took charge of the home mission station, and the boarding and
industrial school which he still indefatigably superintends. There
were 15,000 natives then in the district, and its extremes were 100
miles apart. Portions of it could only be reached with peril to
limbs and even life. Horses were only regarded as wild animals in
those days, and Mr. C. traversed on foot the district I have just
returned from, not lazily riding down the gulch sides, but climbing,
or being let down by ropes from tree to tree, and from crag to crag.
In times of rain like last week, when it was impossible to ford the
rivers, he sometimes swam across, with a rope to prevent him from
being carried away, through others he rode on the broad shoulders of
a willing native, while a company of strong men locked hands and
stretched themselves across the torrent, between him and the
cataract, to prevent him from being carried over in case his bearer
should fall.
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