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he had finished the row of cloth plants he was then weeding.

Mr. Stewart conducted an English service in the afternoon. The sound of the hura in a remote part of the district, was occasionally heard through the after part of the day; but whether countenanced by any of the chiefs, or only exhibited for the amusement of the common people, the missionaries did not learn.

At four o'clock, they again walked down to the beach, and found about two hundred people collected under the kou trees. Many more afterwards came; and, after singing and prayer, Mr. Ellis preached to them upon the doctrine of the resurrection and a future state. The congregation seemed much interested. Probably it was the first time many had ever heard of the awful hour when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised and stand before God.

At the conclusion of the service, notice was given of the Monthly Missionary Prayer-Meeting on the morrow evening, and the people were invited to attend. Taua, the native teacher of Keopuolani, visited the family in the evening, and gave a very pleasing account of Keopuolani's frequent conversations with him on the love of God in sending his Son, on the death of Christ, and on her great desire to have a new heart, and become a true follower of the Redeemer. He informed them, that she had several times, after the attendants had most of them retired, sent for him at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening, to engage in prayer with her and her husband before they retired to rest.

This account was truly gratifying to all the family, and tended much to strengthen the pleasing hope, which, from her uniform, humble, and Christian conduct, they had for some time indulged, that a saving change had taken place in her heart.

7th. In the afternoon Messrs. Richards and Ellis waited on the Queen Keopuolani, to converse with her respecting the houses and fences, which she

had kindly engaged to erect for the missionaries. The interview was very satisfactory. Keopuolani seemed anxious to make them comfortable, and assured Mr. Richards that the houses would soon be ready for them. The missionaries then visited Maaro, the chief of Waiakea, a large district on the eastern side of Hawaii. He had been on a short visit to the king at Oahu, and was returning to his land in the Ainoa. He received them kindly, and when informed that Mr. Ellis wished to proceed in the vessel to Hawaii, said, "It is good that he should go; we shall sail to-morrow." The eastern part of Lahaina, in which he had his encampment, was highly cultivated, and embellished by some beautiful groves of kou trees and cocoa-nuts. There were also several large ponds well stocked with excellent fish.

On returning from their visit to Maaro, the missionaries found the people collecting under the cool shade of their favourite trees in front of Keopuolani's house, for the purpose of attending the Monthly Prayer-Meeting. About 5 o'clock the service commenced. Mr. Ellis gave an address from the Saviour's commission to the first missionaries to the heathen, Matt. xxviii, 19. "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations." The audience appeared gratified with the brief account given of the missionary operations of the present day, especially those among the various clustering islands of the South Pacific, with whose inhabitants they feel themselves more particularly identified, than with the native tribes of Africa, or Asia. It was a circumstance truly animating to see so many of those, who, wrapt in the thick darkness of paganism, had, till lately, worshipped the work of their own hands, and sacrificed their fellow creatures to devils, now joining in concert with Christians of every nation in praying for the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the world.

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meha, appears well built, is 40 feet by 20, has two stories, and is divided into four rooms by strong boarded partitions. It was the occasional residence of the late king, but by the present is used only as a warehouse. Several persons who appeared to have the charge of it, were sitting in one of the apartments, and Mr. Ellis, having looked over the house, and. made some inquiries about the native timber employed for the floor, beams, &c. sat down on one of the bales of cloth lying there, and asked them if they knew how to read, or if any of them attended the school and the religious services on the Sabbath. On their answering in the negative, he advised them not to neglect these advantages, assuring them it was a good thing to be instructed, and to know the true God, and his Son, Jesus Christ, the only Saviour. They said, "Perhaps it is a good thing for some to attend to the palapala and the pule, (reading and prayers;) but we are the king's servants, and must attend to his concerns. If we, (meaning all those that had the care of the king's lands,) were to spend our time at our books, there would be nobody to cultivate the ground, to provide food, or fetch sandal wood for the king." Mr. Ellis asked them what proportion of their time was taken up in attending to these things. They said, they worked in their plantations three or four days in a week, sometimes from daylight to 9 or 10 o'clock in the forenoon; that preparing an oven of food took an hour; and that when they went for sandal wood, which was not very often, they were gone three or four days, and sometimes as many weeks. Mr. Ellis asked them what they did in the remaining part of those days, in which they worked at their plantations in the morning, and also on those days when they did. not work at all. They said, they ate poe, laid down to sleep, or kamailio no, (just talked for amusement.) They were then asked, which they thought would be most advantageous to them, to spend, that time in learning to read, and seeking the favour of

Jehovah and Jesus Christ, that they might live forever, or wasting it in eating, sleeping, or foolish talking, and remaining ignorant in this world, and wretched in that which is to come? They immediately endeavoured to turn the conversation to some other subject, by saying, "What a fine country must yours be compared with this. What large bales of cloth come from thence; while the clothing of Hawaii is small in quantity, and very bad. The soil there must be very prolific, and property very easily obtained, or so much of it would not have been brought here." Mr. E. informed them that the difference was not so great between the countries, as between the people. That many ages back the ancestors of the present inhabitants of England and America possessed fewer comforts than the Sandwich Islanders enjoy; wore skins of beasts for clothing; painted their bodies with various colours; and worshipped, with inhuman rites, their cruel gods: but since they had become enlightened and industrious, and had embraced Christianity, they had been wise and wealthy: that they owed all their present riches and enjoyment to their intelligence and industry; and that, if the people of either country were to neglect education and religion, and spend as much of their time in eating, sleeping, and jesting, they would soon become just as poor and ignorant, as the Sandwich Islanders were. They said, perhaps it was so; perhaps industry and instruction would make them better and happier; and if the chiefs wished, by and by they would attend to it. After again exhorting them to improve the means now placed within their reach by the residence of the missionaries among them, Mr. Ellis took leave of them.-He also went into several other houses during the forenoon, and conversed with the people on subjects relating to the mission, recommending their attention to the advantages it was designed to confer. Some approved, but many seemed very well satisfied with their

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sent state of ignorance and irreligion, and rather unwilling to be disturbed.

9th. In the evening, after having united with the family in their evening devotions, Mr. Ellis took leave of them, grateful for the hospitable entertainment and kind attention he had experienced during his unexpected stay at their interesting station. He felt considerable regret at leaving Lahaina without the company of Mr. Stewart, whose indisposition, which had been increasing for two or three days, prevented his accompanying the Deputation, of which he had been appointed a member, in their projected tour.

About 9 o'clock Mr. Ellis walked down to the beach, where he waited till midnight, before an opportunity offered for getting on board. On reaching the brig, he learned that they did not intend to sail till day-light. There were such multitudes of natives on board, and every place was so crowded, that it was impossible to get from the gang-way to the companion, without treading on them, and it was difficult any where, either below or upon deck, to find room sufficient to lie down.

10th. Early this morning the vessel was under weigh, but the light winds and strong westerly current soon rendered it necessary to drop the anchor. Between 8 and 9, Mr. Ellis went on shore, and after breakfasting with the mission family, returned to the beach, that he might be ready to embark whenever the wind should become favourable. He sat down in Keopuolani's house, and entered into an interesting conversation with her, Hoapiri, and several other chiefs, respecting their ancient traditions and mythology. He could not help stating to them the striking identity between theirs and those of the Tahitians, and expressed his conviction, that both nations had the same origin. They said their traditions informed them, that their progenitors were brought into existence on the islands which they now inhabit, that they knew nothing of the origin of the people of the Georgian and