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For July. 1807*

The Monthof June in Honolulu
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Sketch of a Barmen on Hone Mieeiooj
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Sailing of the Morning Star"
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other column will be found the report of the
Examining Committee.
The crowning exercise of the gatherings
at the College is the exhibition. On that
evening the whole.town appeared to have
turned out. It was at the season of full moon,
and the weather being uncommonly bland
and pleasant, it was a most delightful evening excursion for the town's people to visit
the College premises. Everything passed
off to the satisfaction of all.
The Koyal School and other Government
schools close their year during the month of
June. Examinations are held, when many
of the citizens, both foreign and native, are

present.
On Friday, June 28th, Mr. Beckwith held
The month just closing has been crowded an examination of his Select School under
with anniversary meetings, school examina- Fort Street Church. He is assisted by Miss
tions and public gatherings, which have oc- Atherton, an experienced teacher from the
cupied almost every day. The various mis- Boston public schools. This school numbers
sionary and benevolent societies hold their about fifty pupils, and on the day of examinanniversary meetings during this month. ation they appeared remarkably well.
The most prominent is the "Hawaiian EvanAll the free native schools hold a public
gelical Association." Fully two weeks the examination during the month of June in
Association held daily sessions. These meet- Honolulu. This year the examination was
ings are full of interest to all who look to the conducted in the Key. Mr. Smith's church.
spiritual welfare of this Kingdom. During Large crowds were present.
these meetings the sermons upon foreign and
In addition to the other public anniversahome missions are preached. This year the ries, this year was held one of unusual interRev. J. F. Pogue preached the sermon upon est. We refer to the Sabbath-school celebraHome Missions, a sketch of which will be tion and picnic. This took place on the 15th
found on another page. The Rev. C. B. of June. The foreign and native SabbathAndrews preached a sermon upon Foreign schools united. The day was favorable, and
Missions, and we hope to present a sketch of the assembly large. The procession passed
the same.
through the principal streets of the city.
During the month of June, Oahu College During its progress it passed by the Bethel,
holds a public examination, which is contin- where the friends of temperance assembled
ued for two days. These examinations call to dedicate the drinking fountain erected by
together very large audiences, and the public the Temperance Legion. In another column
interest thus manifested in the cause of will be found the address of H. A. P. Carter,
academical and collegiate education, is highly Esq. The singing in English was conducted
commendable. Our young College is some- by R. Andrews, Esq., and in Hawaiian by
thing of which we feel quite proud. The the Hon. Mrs. Dominis. Everything conprofessors and teachers labor hard, and the nected with the dedication of the fountain
result of their labors is manifest in the pro- was highly gratifying to the friends of temficiency of their numerous pupils. In an- perance. The good cause has thereby reThe Month of June in Honolulu.

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ceived an onward impulse, which is indicative
of good to the community.
Our Catholic neighbors, on the anniversary
of " Corpus Christi," turn out in full regalia
and make a great display. Banners, flags,
music, flowing robes, and numerous other
accessory aids, render the procession quite
imposing. Bell ringing—that never-failing
element of Catholic worship and display—
adds its attraction. Priests and nuns, young
and old, swell the grand procession. We can
well imagine that processions of this nature,
in really Catholic countries, must be quite

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imposing.

In the midst of our anniversary scenes, the
Morning Star arrives with good news from
the Marquesas Islands. An interesting report of the late voyage of this missionary vessel has been issued in the form of a supplement to the Friend for this month. We think
our numerous readers, on land and sea, will
be interested in the journal of the Rev. T.
Coan.
Exchange

of

Seeds and Plants. —From

a copy of the Daily Sacramento Unwa. for
April 28th, we learn that J. Q. A. Warren,
Esq., who visited the Islands in 1865 and
'66, is now in Sacramento, engaged in exchanging seeds and plants. He has various
kinds of rice, which he is willing to give
away to those applying. He it also introducing some of our shade trees into Califor-

nia, such as the algeroba, tamarind, guava,
etc. This is a method ot usefulness which
we rejoice in seeing practiced. Capt. Cook
found these Islands comparatively barren of
fruits and vegetables, whereas now Dr. Hillebrand, who has justreturned from a voyage
to China, India, Java and elsewhere, declares
that we are even *ow better offforfruits than
the inhabitants of those countries. In a very
few years we may hope that our Islands will
become the Eden of the world. It is now the
Paradise foi the lovers of water-melons, so
much so» that a certain California editor
speaks of these Islands as " a water-melon,
patch In the great Pacific."

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Sketch ofa Sermon onHome Missions,

JULY, 1807.

Discouragements in the way are numerous,
and to those who are disposed to look upon
the shady side their name is legion. But is
gayinc hitherto hath the Lord helped there no sunny side—nothing to inspire
Bbtnenr,
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hope, excite zeal, and fill the heart with
■s."—lcUs. 7:xU^
In every age, and in all lands, men have strong resolves that the work can, shall, and
been accustomed to erect monuments by must be done ? In my opinion these are
which to perpetuate and hand down to pos- many, and mighty enough to nerve us for
terity great events which may have taken the battle.
1. The first encouragement which I would
place upon earth. Our text is an inscription
placed upon one of these monuments. Upon mention is founded on God's providential
these Islands a monument is being erected dealings with the nation in preparing the
more glorious than any monument ever way for its evangelization.
erected by the art of man's device. This
Evangelization upon these Islands has a
monument is made up of living stones, built history—a history of efforts put forth by feeupon the' foundation of the Apostles and ble instrumentalities, but made by the Holy
Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief Spirit, attending their efforts, the power of
comer-stone—the church of the living God. God, and the wisdom of God, to the salvaThis church has a work to perform. This tion temporal and spiritual of multitudes.
work is said to be " the evangelization of the Before the arrival of the missionaries God
spiritual needy portions of the population of had united the Islands into one kingdom, and
these Islands, and the supply of their reli- under one king. The kapu system was abolgious necessities by means of divine truth ished. The first message which greeted the
ears of the pioneers was, Kamehameha is
preached, and otherwise disseminated."
1. Who are the agents to be employed in dead. Liholiho is King. The kapu system
using the means mentioned for the evangeli- is abolished." The high priests of the old
zation of the spiritual needy upon these Isl- religion were ready to welcome them to their
ands?
work. Contention, strife and persecution
2. And what are some encouragements to came, but they went fearlessly on, and soon
excite these agents to prosecute the work to churches, schools and knowledge spread
throughout the group. God crowned their
completion ?
My object will be to answer these two labors with success, and multitudes now in
questions, and to their consideration I now heaven, as well as many upon earth, were
turned from the power of Satan to God, from
invite your attention this evening.
1. Have we agents in this independent death to life.
2. The success which has attended the
christian community who may engage in
this work, and where may they be found ? labors of the Hawaiian Board since its formThese are not wanting. They are numerous, ation is calculated to encourage these agents.
This Board is the working power of this
and well adapted to engage in the work.
Who are they ? Not among the missionaries christian community. When this Board comare we to look for these agents. These will menced operations there were only three Habe expected to do their part of the work, but waiian pastors upon the Islands. Now we
not upon them alone rests the responsibility have twenty-seven. There were upon the Islof carrying it to completion.
Bear ye one ands at that time twenty-two churches, sevenanother's burdens," is the command of Paul. teen of which were supplied by foreign pasHence there are other portions of this com- tors, and two by natives not ordained. Now
munity who must aid in bearing this burden. we have forty-six churches—fifteen supplied
These are the disciples of Christ gathered by foreign pastors, and the rest, say thirtyinto what are termed " foreign Evangelical one, by Hawaiians. Our schools for females
churches" in this land. There is, however, have increased in numbers and efficiency.
another part of this christian community upon The issues from the press have been multiwhich this work has special claims. I mean plied. The lambs of the flock have not been
the descendants of those who first brought neglected. Our Sabbath-schools are prosperthe light ofthe gospel to these shores. These ous, and many of the children of the old misare located upon all parts of the Islands, and sionaries are found in them laboring for the
come in contact dailywith the people in their salvation of the race. Besides all this, more
secular, intellectual and religious pursuits. than twenty-five thousand dollars have been
Upon them rests the responsibility of com- contributed during the year 1866 by these
pleting the work commenced by their fathers. churches for the work of saving a lost world.
This responsibility they cannot ignore, and
3. Another source of encouragement may
be derived from the fact that we are not laremain innocent.
There is another class who must not be boring alone for the present population of
omitted in this enumeration, viz : the native these Islands, but for posterity.
These valleys and hills will be cultivated;
converts. Many of these are doing, and will
do a good work in helping forward the cause. this soil will yield its increase to enlarge the
These, then, are the agents to be employed wealth of the world j commerce with her
in this work. Men redeemed by the blood winged messengers, will make this a stopof Jesus Christ, regenerated and sanctified ping place between two continents; manuby the Holy Spirit, are prepared to be co- factories will spring up, and in due time the
workers with the Head of the church in land will be covered with thriving villages,
ushering in the time when the top stone may and it may be, cities teeming with men,

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at Fort Street Charch, June
9th, 1867, by Rev. J. F. Pogne.

Prenches

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he placed upon this monument shouting,
grace unto it."
" Graoe,
Having seen the agents by whom this
wo* is to be done, let us now
look at some
things which may encourage these agents in
performing their work.

women and children. What will be the chardepends much upon the efforts
now put forth.
4. The great encouragement to prosecute
this work is yet to be mentioned, viz : God
is with hi.
acter of these

We are engaged in the same work for
which the Father gave his Son, and for which
the Son gave his life. He who gave Moses
his commission and was with him in all his
labors, has said to us, "All power is given
unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost:
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever 1 have commanded you: and, 10, lam
with you alway, even unto the end of the
world." Had we not one of the encouragements which we have to urge us to duty—
were our enemies a thousand times more
powerful than they are—yet with this blessed
promise, "I will be with you," we ought to
gird ourselves for the battle, and as the conflict waxes hotter and hotter, march with our
conquering King to conquest and to victory.
When this victory shall have beenachieved—
the top stone placed upon this monument—
the nation emancipated from Satan'srule and
saved—with joy will we inscribe upon it,
our help. Not unto us,
"butEbenezer—God
to thy great name, 0 Father, be the
praise for ever and ever."
Pitcairners on Norfolk Island.

We have received a letter from one of the
old Pitcairn Islanders, now residing on Norfolk Island. The writer's name is Buffett.
This person visited Honolulu over twenty
years ago and wrote a series of articles upon
the history of the Pitcairn Islanders, which
were published in the Friend during the year
1846. It will be recollected by our readers
that all the inhabitants (about two hundred)
of Pitcairn's Island were removed by the
British Government to Norfolk Island, after
that island was abandoned as a penal settlement. So much dissatisfied were some of
these people that they chartered a schooner
and returned to their old home on Pitcairn's
Island, where they are now living. Among
those who remained on Norfolk Island was
our correspondent, Mr. John Buffett, who
married a daughter of one of the original
mutineers of the Bounty. This letter was
written February 7th, 1867.
# « # # We are now getting on very
well. We obtained about two hundred and
forty barrels of humpback oil this year, and
last year about three hundred and fifty barrels. We export cheese and butter, and
should get on very well if they would leave
us alone; but they want to civilize us, and
we find it a great deal better to be semi-civilized, as we do not find so much roguery in
the latter as in the former state. When we
came here we were officially informed that
the land, withthe exception of seven hundred
acres, as glebe land, was ours, and the sheep
and cattle also; but we soon found to the
contrary, for the sheep were taken from us,
and all the cattle we had not marked, and
we now understand that a thousand acres of
the best land on the island is sold, or to be
sold to the Bishop of Melenesia, and we have
nothing to say in the matter. Some time
ago we advocated that the Bishop should
have a branch school on the island, we supposing that at most he would not want more

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than two hundred acres, but judge of our
surprise when we heard of his having a ninth
part of the island.
You may have heard or seen the reports
published in the Sydney Morning Herald,
where our community whs scandalized as
sunk in utter indolence, as being too lazy to
do anything for ourselves, etc. —in fact, making us to be worse than the savages in the
interior of Africa. No doubt it was done
with the intention of degrading us, that others may have the credit of raising us in the
scale of civilization. John Adams and myself have endeavored to refute the slander.
Our reply has been published in the Sydney
Empire, and the editor of the Empire has
kindly given his opinion on the subject,
which agrees with ours. I wish, most reverend Sir, you may see the publication, but
1 can assure you it is a most slanderous and
disgusting account of our character.
I hope some day to land on Pitcairn's, and
then I shall be nearer to you, and have the
pleasure of communicating with you. In the
meantime, dear Sir, if you will kindly do
what you can to assist in forwarding communication between us and Pitcairn's, you
would greatly oblige-us.
I remain, dear Sir,

Your obedient servant,
John Buffett.
P. S.—Reading in the Friend an account
of the South Sea missions, I noticed the remark that two young men belonging to
our community were killed at Santa Cruz
by the natives. I would inform you, Sir,
that one was a son of Rev. Mr. Nobbs—the
other a dear grandson of mine, Fisher Young,
whose mother and father, Simon and Mary
Young, are now on Pitcairn's. We know
not yet if they have heard of their loss, but
there is one thing that consoles me. It was
my dear daughter's first-born son, and at his
birth, she, like Hannah, gave him to the
Lord, and we hope that He received him, and
that he now wears a martyr's crown. They
were both engaged in the missionary cause,
not as sailors, but teachers, and 1 believe
they are the first who fell in the Melenesian
missionary cause. They were both young
men, bom at Pitcairn's, and had they been
spared, the one would have succeeded Mr.
Nobbs, and the other, I think, would have
been chaplain at Pitcairn's. But it has
pleased the Lord to call them in the morning
of life, and 1 hope and trust that they are enjoying " that rest which remains for the peoJ. B.
ple of God."

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tioned could reach the hand of Paul as he
The Grand Exposition.
was standing near the fire.
have received the following lines from a venerWhen the inhabitants of the island saw the ableWegentleman
of Northampton, Mass., now in hi*
viper hanging to Paul's hand they exclaimed, eighty-fourth year. He was a delegate to the Grand
"No doubt this man is a murderer whom, Peace Congress in Paris, in 1Mll, at which Victor
oldest member from
though he hath escaped the sea, yet ven- Hugo presided,ofandtheis now the
A. B. C. F. M. The lines, ai
geance suffereth not to live." So certain were Massachusetts
oar intelligentreaders will perceive, are in the poetithey that vengeance had overtaken him at cal
measure of the celebrated Franciscan monkish
last that they spoke of him as already dead. hymn of the 18th century, called " Stabat Mater."
The nations of antiquity had some very They are probably the first short poem in that meascorrect notions of God, and especially of his ure in the English language:

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justice in punishing the guilty. This knowlIn not France now symbolising
edge had probably been handed down through
What the world mutdnn lurprisiag—
successive generations from Noah and his
Of the Prince of Peace" the may,
When all"king* shall bow before Him,
sons; but as they did not like to retain the
And allnations until adore Him —
knowledge of God (see Rom. 1:28), it became
Whom the fiercest Khali obey f
more and more mingled with fables. From
11.
conscience and observation they had retained
For proud France a new position
to-day
this
l-'.x position"
a more correct notion of God's justice than of
la
In the bloody" Champ dc Man ;"
his other attributes ; but this attribute they
Showing what she
" deems most glorious,
Good o'er evil now victorious—
personified—that is, they regarded it as a
Fruits of Peace, not pomp'of Wars.
goddess whom they called Nemesis, or Dike.
111.
Dike was the name used by the barbarous
In this field behold the wonderinhabitants of Malta when they saw the viper
Bee that pile of Bibles yonder,
Missiles not of deadly strifehanging on Paul's hand. " This man must
Weapons fatal to all error,
surely be a murderer, for although he has esStriking guilty hearts with terror,
Yet bestowing endless life !
caped the dangers of the sea, yet Dike has
not suffered him to live."
IV.
One of the orphic hymns—hymns supposed
Book of Life to every peasant,
That, O France, were noble present,
to have been composed by Orpheus—is adFilling every cot with song •,
dressed to Dike. " I sing the eye of all-seeWar's dread engines then discarded,
Arts
of peace by all regarded,
ing, bright-robed Dike, who sits upon the
Jesus'rule o'ersways all wrong.
sacred throne of Zeus—or Jupiter—the king,
Y.
from heaven surveying the life of mortals."
When God's Book alt tribe* are reading,
Hesiod represents Dike as the daughter of
As forall God's Son Is pleading—
Triumph grand of Charity!
Zeus, sharing his throne, and noting the evil
That will be » for«*'» Exhibition,"
That the "unequalled Exposition,"
disposition of men.
From the stars they come to see !
By Aeschylus, Dike is portrayed with a —[Bible Society
W. A.
Record.
balance, ready to weigh the good and evil
deeds of men. The passage may be thus Hawaiian Music.—lt is something to bear of
paraphrased : The' swift balance of Dike is Hawaiians, who but a few years ago, as a nation,
ever watching" its opportunity to descend. possessed no other songs but the semi-barbarous
of their ancestors, and no other music than
To some it comes in the broad light of day. Mclti
—uu," of
the montonous "ah—ah,
The retribution of other crimes awaits the former years,—it is something newo—oo—u
to have to note the
dark twilight of life, and by delay crowds of appearance of a neatly lithographed sheet of music for
woes are gathering. Others are reserved for sale in the bookstore, both the words and music of
which were composed by a Hawaiian lady Hon. Mrs.,
the eternal, never-accomplished night."
Dominis The title describes the sentiments expressed
Plutarch associates Dike with Nemesis and in the composition—" He Mele Lahui Hawaii," or, in
Erings as the punishers of guilty mortals, English, " A Hawaiian National Hymn." Tho words
and they exercise their functions in both this are not rhyme, but read smoothly, with the euphony

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world and the next.
The Main Cause or

the

Maori War.—ln a re-

cent Auckland (New Zealand) paper, we notice the
report of a Temperance Society meeting at that place,
at which much attention was drawn to the demoralising effect ofstrong drink upon the Maories. It was

stated that there was a great outcry or protest from
the more Christian and civilized natives at the opening of places for the sale of drinkaround them. The
Chairman of the meeting gave a tribute of respect to
For the Friend.
William Thompson—one of the principal leaders in
Remarks on Acts 28:4.
the Maori rebellion —who, he said, had become
to British rule, because he could not have
The rain was falling and the weather was disaffected
the power granted for preventing drink being concold, when Paul and his shipwrecked com- veyed up the Waikato ; hence his desire to have a
panions reached the shore of Malta. To king and laws of their own. so that the Maori race
might not become extinct by the partaking of strong
build a good fire was doubtless their first drink.
Many tribes of aborigines were instanced
for
this
Paul
collected
purpose
and
thought,
who had become or were daily becoming extinct beof
threw
on
sticks and
them
the fore the white man's drink. It was declared that the
a bundle
fire already kindled by the barbarians. Just only way to preserve the noble race of New Hollandobthen a viper dartedfrom the heat and fastened ers was to keep strong drink from them. These Haon his hand. The viper is a venomous ser- servations will, in many respects, apply to theof the
waiians, a kindred race. The native members
pent, from twenty inches to three feet in Legislature have invariably,
almost to a man, been
bite
causes
death.
speedy
length, and its
in favor of stringent laws against the sale of intoxiVipers become torpid as soon as the temper- cating drinks, but, unfortunately, the laws they hare
enacted have, in a great degree, proved inoperative,
ature falls sensibly below the mean tempera- and
strong drink, combined with other causes, is fast
ture of the place they inhabit. They are ac- doing death's
work. It is stated that the Maori war
customed also to dart at their enemies sev- has cost the British Government over throe millions
eral feet at a bound, and thus the one men- of pounds or 916,000,000 '.—Advtrlutr.

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characteristic of the Hawaiian tongue, and the music
is very sweet, the first few bars resembling those of
the popular song of Hazel Dell." When sung by
a full choir of natives, many of whom, male and
female, have well managed voices of peculiar sweetness of tone, the National Hymn," expressing as it
does both piety and patriotism, cannot fail to become
popular. The lithography is very creditably dons) at
Newcomb & Co's book-bindery. We subjoin a translations of the words i

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Almighty Father, bend thine ear,

And list the nation's prayer,
That lowly bosrs before thy throne,
And seeks thy fostering care.
Grant thy pesec throughout the Isad,
O'er each sunny sea-girtisle ;
Keep the nation's life, O Lord,
And upon our Boverelgu smile.
Guard Him with thy tender care ;
Give Him length of yea" »° reign
won,—
Qn the throne His Fathers
J)h «» the nation once again.

Give the King thy loving grans,
And with wisdom from oo high,
Prosperous lead his people on
As beneath thy watchful eye.
Cnoaus—Grant thy peace, fee.

Bless, oh Lord, oar country's rsnsss,
Grantthem wisdom so to live
That our people maybe saved,
And to tare the glory give.
Wstrh thou o'er as, day by day,—
King sad people—with thy love,
For our hupe is all in thee ;
Bless us, thou who reign'st above !
—Adiertutr.
Cbosus—Graut thy peace, etc.

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THE FRIEND.
JILV 1, 18G7.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Beecheb's Norwood, or Village Life in
New England.—There was a time at no
very distant date, when novels were tabu to
some of the good people of America. A
change has come over the minds of many
upon this subject. Seeing " Norwood " advertised in the New York Observer, we presumed it would not be wrong to read it, so
for the first time in our life, we bought a copy
of the New York Ledger. Keport says the
publisher of the Ledger pays Mr. Beecher
$10,000 for this serial, which will make its
appearance in the successive numbers of the
Ledger. The scene of " Norwood " is laid
in the valley of the Connecticut. " Look,"
says the writer, with my eyes, good reader,
"
upon the town ol Norwood, that refusing to
go down upon the fat bottom-lands of the
Connecticut, daintily perches itself upon the
irregular slopes west, and looks over upon
that transcendent valley from under its beautiful shade trees, and you will say that no
fairer village glistens in the sunlight, or nestles under arching elms. It is a wonder (hat
Norwood was ever allawed to venture so near
the low grounds of the Connecticut—for it
was early settled, not far from thirty years
after the Pilgrims' landing."
This paragraph takes us again to the scenes
of college life, when on vacation and festival
days, we rambled over the hills of Hampshire
County and along the banks of the beautiful
Connecticut, .under those " arching elms."
We have visited Norwood, or some similar
town in that beautiful region. Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, Sunderland and Greenfield are all sister towns to Norwood. We
thank Mr. B. for transporting us to that delightful region of Massachusetts. Nearly six
years we spent in Amherst, looking forth
upon the very spot where " Norwood aestles
under arching elms."
We shall follow Rachel Liscomb and
Abiah Cathcart as they settle down to life's
labors on the old Templeton farm. We have
visited many such farms, and looked down
many " old-fasbioned wells of mysterious
depth," and drank from the old oaken bucket,
" spurting out its contents on every side, and
filling the well with a musical splashing
sound, reserving hardly enough to serve for
a good drink."
We shall be disappointed if Mr. B. does
not furnish his readers with many a bright
page descriptive of New England life. His
descriptions are life-like. Abiah Cathcart's
horses we have seen a hundred times, and
"the great golden-speckled rooster" we heard
crow more than thirty years ago, aa he drew
"
up with magisterial dignity."

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Whether Mr. B. has really struck thatrich
mine of golden ore that lies embedded under
the angular and somewhat stiff exterior of
New England character, remains to be seen.
But that there is a rich mine there, is a fact
that some future Scott or Irving will yet disclose. The world has already heard much
about New England, but the reading world
may rest assured the story of New England
life, habits and character has not yet been
fully portrayed. We shall anxiously wait to
see whether Mr. Beecher has been endowed
with the " Divine gift " to unfold and portray New England life and character.
The "Sparkler."—This is the attractive
name of a monthly journal of art and literature published by the Pithanologian Society
of Columbia Grammar School, New York
city. Three numbers have been received,
and they indicate wit, taste and ability on
the part of the youthful aspirants for editorial
fame. The two sons of Dr. G. A. Lathrop,
formerly of Honolulu, are contributors to the
columns of the Sparkler. When they resided in Honolulu, these boys were "brimfull" of Young America, and we should infer that the same spirit still animated their
■minds. We notice some poetical effusions
and translations from the French in the
Sparkler. Success to the conductors. We
shall be happy to exchange.
Young Ladies' Seminary, Benicia.—This
institution, under the efficient management
of Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Mills, with its eleven
teachers and one hundred and twenty pupils,
(eighty-one of whom are boarders,) appears
to be in most successful operation. A catalogue has been received. We are fully confident its advantages equal those of any other
female seminary this side of the Rocky Mountains. We notice among the graduates this
year that there are two from the Islands—

MissClaraandMissMarionßowell.ol Kauai.
Stranger's Friend Society.—The

ladies

of Honolulu, interested in sustaining the
Stranger's Friend Society, met on the 6th of
June at the residence of the Seamen's Chaplain. From the report of Mrs. A. E. Austin,
the Treasurer, it appeared that the Society
had assisted fifteen sick and indigent persons
belonging to five different nationalities, viz

Oahu College.

The annuul examination and exhibition of thits
institution liavc taken place during the past month,
and been well attended. Indeed the hall was
crowded on each occasion to its utmost capacity.
The number of students has increased the past
year, and the catalogue shows that 74 have been
m attendance. Considerable improvement was
noticeable in the various classes examined, and
the readiness with which the scholars answered
all questions showed that they had been well
drilled. The hall was decorated with thirty-five
specimens of colored drawings, evidencing the
skill of the pupils in this branch of their instruction. The report of the examining committc,
which we insert below, is so full that more from
us will not be necessary.
We may here state that the institution wns
founded in lH4l,and is consequently twenty-six
years old. Its total endowment fund amounts to
#35,205, including four thousand dollars recently
given by James llunnewell, Esq., of Boston,
which makes the total of his gift #10,000. We
sincerely trust that some special efforts will lie
made to increase the fund to one hundred thousand dollars, as the College needs more teachers
and buildings, and with ample provision in these
respects, it might accommodate two hundred students.

REPORT

Of the <'••iiimiiK■■■ Appointed n> attend il.r
Kxmiiiiiai ion of Ihe Onhu College, on the
lllii, lglhnud 13th of June.

With the school year just closed, Oahu College entered upon it* second quarter of a century. It is
interesting to notice the change in the relative position of the institution indicated by the Catalogue of
Pupils, in which there are only fourteen out of seventy-four names who arc children of American Missionaries, while six are of purely Hawaiian parentage. This institution was commenced with reference
to the whole English-speaking community of these
islands; and it is gratifying that it has, thus early in
its biftory, develop*! so successfully in the direction
intended by its foumlers. The crowded attendance
upon the examination and exhibition gave full evidence that our community is not wanting in appreciation ofthe plan of the institution, and of the mode
in which it is being carried out.
The compression of the examination into a day and
a half was productive of increased interest, and did
not detract from its real value. A very marked improvement was apparent to those who could make
the comparis n, o\er the examinations of the last
few years, in the distinctness of utterance on the
part of the pupils. We would exhort both teachers
and scholars not to remit their endeavors in this very
important matter.

'

An inspection of therecords of the year, exhibiting
the standing of each scholar, shows a very marked
and Ugh rate of good deportment and of scholarly
attainments; and it is, in fact, so uniformly high
that we would suggest to the teachers 1 more rigid
and discriminating mode of marking. Such records
$21 00
I.—American
lose very much of their value, unless kept with
;.—nniiBii
oo uu
perfect impartiality; and we would recommend that
11 00
3—German
the decimals, in the first records certainly, bo discon24 00
4.—Portugal
G 00
6.—Portugal
tinued.
23
SO
6.—German
We were much pleased with the general manner in
7.—American
3 00
which the examinations were conducted, and there
12 50
8.—American
was a very satisfactory certainty on the part of the
9.—American
25 00
10.—British
10 00
pupils. It would be an improvement, were there no
11.—British
3 60
voluntary prompting of ouo pupil by another; and
12.—American
13 50
we would urge it should not be allowed in the ordi13.—Russian
IS 00
00
1«
14.—American
nary recitations of the institution, as it is in them
81 60
15.—British
that this unnecessary and bad habit is formed.
The practical turn given to the studies examined
rotal amount expended
$319 50
was very satisfactory—as in the classes of Greek and
From the Treasurer's report, it appears Latin,
physical geography, chemistry and familiar
that there remains unexpended $40.15, be- science. We were particularly gratified with the
sides the fund of $2,000 invested in Gov- attention paid to the Hawaiian language, and with
the fact that theTrustees will, the coming year, offer
ernment bonds.
a prize to the individual making the greatest advance
each class pursuing this study. The Hawaiian
The Rev. James Daly.—This young man in
may well become one of the special features of a
graduates at Andover Theological Seminary course of study at Punahou.
this year. He has already left for a tour The exhibition on Thursday evening was interestGreater attention might,
and encouraging.
through Europe, expecting to visit Palestine ing
however, we would suggest, be devoted to the art of
his
travels
corwill
he
and Egypt. During
elocution. It was interesting that D. Malo, a native
respond for the Boston Congrcgationalist Hawaiian, should appear to so good advantage in this
and the Pacific of San Francisco.
very particular.

:

T II F F R I UN 11. JULY,

1867.

I continued in this state for ten
months, under the discMtne of God's tender
love, designed to bring me to repentance. I
bless His name for the chastising rod.
Being unable to perform duty, 1 was invalided home, and transferred to the sloop-ofwar Vincennes, bound for New Yoik. We
touched on our way at Honolulu, and being

We thank the teachers for their laborious attention been born.

to the intellectual and moral advancement of the
minds under their care during the year past, and
would assure them that their very pains-taking labors
are fully appreciated by a grateful public.
Wm. Hjsynolds,
Jno. S. MoGrkw,

W. P. Alexander,
L. H. Gcuck,

Committee.

somewhat improved in health, I obtained libpromised the docdrunk; but I fell
into bad company and broke my promise, and
while intoxicated fell over a spare mast near
the gang-way of the ship, and would certainly have been killed, had not one of the
men seized hold of me. He told me of it the
next morning. 1 sat down on the deck and
asked what will become of me. I thought of
the vows I made in the hour of danger to my
long suffering God. I thought of the many
perils 1 had escaped, and the many times I
had been delivered from death. My poor
father's last prayer for me came more forcibly tomy mind than ever, and as I leaned
over the side of the ship I wept where none
could see me, but Him who despiseth not
the tears of the contrite. I felt the influence
of the Divine Spirit working in my soul, and
my heart was softened. Rev. Mr. Damon,
the seamen's chaplain, came on board with

Death of John Byrns, Lay Missionary to erty to go on shore, having
Seamen on East River, New York.
tor that I would not get

Late New York papers, as well as private
letters, announce the death of this earnest
laborer in the seamen's cause. Some of our
renders may remember a long article published in the Friend of last September, entitled, "A Wandering Sailor brought home to
God." That sailor was Mr. John Byrns,
whose useful career has now been brought to
a close. Mr. Byrns had become well known
in New York as one of the most successful
laborers among seamen. He had been a soldier in the British army, and afterwards
scived as a sailor on board an American manof-war. He was a native of Ireland. Several years ago we read a letter written by
Mr. Byrns and published in the Sailor's Magbooks and tracts.
azine. From this letter we copy the followparagraphs :
In February, 1854,1 entered the United
States navy, and in July following sailed for
the Pacific, rejoicing that I was where my
relatives would never see me again,and purposing when I reached some foreign port to
run away from the service. But God's mercy
was leading me in a way I knew not. Four
ing

days out from Rio Janeiro we were overtaken
by"a storm. The waves rose mountain high,

the thunders rolled,and the lightnings played.
In the twinkling of an eye our mizzenmast
went by the board, and shortly after our
mainmast. We expected the foremast to follow. All hands were called to save ship—
the signal gun proclaimed distress and called
for relief. Terror was on every countenance,
and hurried thoughts of dear parents, of
wives and children whom they might never
see more, wrung many hearts with anguish.
But these thoughts did not trouble me. My
past sins rushed up before me, God's gracious spirit resisted. His long suffering provoked, and now I thought the barren fig tree
was about to be cut down. I exclaimed,
"well, I'm damned for ever, and justly too.
The Lord called and I would not obey, and
now he is going to destroy my soul." My
sainted father's last prayer came up to my
view, and I saw his raised hands praying
even in death for his poor wandering child.
I lifted my heart to God, and said, " 0 Lord
spare me but once more, and I will serve
Thee." I cried to Him for Jesus' sake to
save me. He heard my prayer, and we were
delivered from death. I continued to pray
for a time, morning and night, but did not
leave off drinking rum, a ration of which was
served out to us> daily.
Soon after it pleased God to lay his afflicting hand upon me. 1 was seized with inflammatory rheumatism, which deprived me
of the use of my hands and feet, and so racked
my whole body with pain, that 1 often wept
as 1 lay on the deck, and wk-hed I had never

I went to him and said,
He
give me a Testament ?
so, and commenced to read and study
it, but the more 1 read, the more I felt condemned. I thought 1 had gone too far to expect forgiveness, and as my burden increased
I knew not what I should do. I roamed about
the deck ; I could not eat, nor remain five
minutes in one place. Where, thought I,
shall I now go ? My sin has found me out.
God will cut me down now, and I shall be in
hell for ever. Still I felt and acknowledged
his justice in so doing. I remained in this
wretched state four or five days. I did not
know that there was a christian on board, but
thinking that a very moral young man with
us might be one, I made my case known to
him. He replied, " You must not give way
so ; pray a little in the morning and at night,
and if you are sorry for getting drunk, God
is good and will forgive you ; so think no
more on the subject. You are weak in body,
and if you feel so, your health will give way.
So come John, cheer up and help us sing

"didSir, will you
I

"

'Poor Dog Tray.'" "Ah," said I, "shipmate, ' Poor Dog Tray' can't give me any
comfort now ; the arrows of the Almighty

are fast within me, and unless He restores
my soul nothing else will." He replied, "I
hope you are not going to extremes." "I am
going," said I, " to begin in earnest and seek
God. 0 that I knew where I might find
Him !" I continued to read my Testament,
but the more I read the greater was my bur-

den.

I was soon called to meet severe persecution. Wherever I went through the ship, I
met mockery and scorn ; but Jesus was with
me, and stood by me. In the night my hammock was let down by the men while I was
asleep, and I fell across a large chest. I was
not much hurt, but somewhat stunned, and'
holding on to a stauncheon, I kneh down and
prayed to my God not to lay this sin to their
charge. I was asked the next morning if the
Lord did not visit me during the night. Yes,
said 1,blessed be His name, and if you do

not repent, He
you think not.

53
will visit you in an hour when

They threatened to burn my Bible. Ah,
said I, that might do in my poor priest-ridden
country, but, thank God, I am sailing under
the stars and stripes now, and Antichrist cannot hold its deluded victims in slavery here.
The laws of America protect my rights, and
no one, I say it with respect and love to my
officers, shall prevent me from reading God s
word, and praying and praising Him.
After a little while the mouths of the revilers were stopped, so that I could walk up
boldly and speak to any of the crew about
the welfare of their souls. 1 continued to
pray for my shipmates, and soon had the
comfort of seeing a boy about sixteen years
of age come out on the side of the Lord. He
was next the mark for ridicule, but He who
never forsakes His children stood by him,
and delivered him from their snares. Seeing
this dear soul rejoicing in God, I felt much
encouraged to persevere in my efforts for the
salvation of my shipmates. We both united
in covenant to serve the Lord. Never shall
1 forget that night, when under the bow of
the launch we knelt together, and gave ourselves away to Him who had loved us. This
dear boy was much tried by the wicked men,
but nothing was able to move him. One officer on board tried to stagger his faith; he
used to send for him in the only times the
boy had to study and improve his mind, and
, where
ask such question's as this : " E
did Cain get his wife ? " " Sir," he replied,
"I am ignorant. The only answer 1 can
give you is, my God knows where Cain got
his wife, and I did not ask him this question
when I felt the burden of my sins, but I cried,
God be merciful to me a sinner."
At Tahiti the crew got liberty to goashore,
and for four or five days abandoned themselves to intemperance. During this time I
had much abuse to encounter, but I strove to
bear up under it, looking totrmt Saviour who
endured the scoffings of poor vile men. I
was much comforted by those words of his,
of me."
" learn
On reaching New York, being still afflicted
with lameness, I was sent to the hospital in
Brooklyn, where I remained two months
happy in the Lord. My health having improved, I obtained my discharge and left the
service. I have since been in the Sailor's
Home in this city, wheie I have received
much kindness from Captain Tracy and his
wife, and had the joy of seeing seveml of the
boarders hopefully brought to Christ. The
welfnre of the sailor is very near my heart,
and I cannot but pray and hope thatthe time
is at hand when the abundance ol the sea
shall be converted to God.
New Books on the Hawaiian Islands.—
We learn that W. T. Brigham, Esq., of Boston, who visited the Islands two years ago,
is preparing, and will very soon publish, a
memoir on the geology of the Hawaiian Islands ; and that his companion, Mr. Mann,
will publish a work upon the botany of the
Islands. Some few pages of Mr. Mann's
work have already been received by Dr. Hillebrand. We are glnd to know that men of
science are laboriously toiling to investigate
the natural history of the Islands. Persons
competent to judge inform us that much yet
remains to be explored.

THE FRIEND, JULY, 186

54

Hawaiian Evangelical Association.
Hawaiian Evangelical Association has been
session the past month, and engaged each
in discussing questions of vital importance
lag moral and religious well-being of the Hawaiian people. The reports from the various
stations throughout the islands all corroborate
the fact that vice, immorality and drunkenness
are rapidly on the increase, and unless soon
chocked by the stern authority of law, the Hawaiian race will ere long be numbered among the

K'he
put.

The attendance of missionaries, native pastors
and lay delegates from the churches is larger
than ever before. The association numbers not
for from seventy or eighty members, comprising
among them the most educated of the Hawaiian
race, and some really able native speakers, whom
,itis a pleasure to listen to. One can notice from
year to year a decided advance among them in all
the qualities that go to make leaden and teachers
of the people.
On June 13th, Captain William Reynolds, of
the Lackawanna, was present, and made a few
remarks to the association, which wo arc permitted to insert. No one is more competent to state
tho facts which he docs, as in 1839-42 he accompanied Lieutenant Wilkes in his Exploring Expedition, and visited nearly every group
of islands in the Pacific, saw the natives in
their own countries, under various forms of
religious teaching, and from perspnal observation makes his own comparisons. Coming from
such a source, the following statements will
carry weight wherever they may be read in any
part of the civilized world

:

ADDRESS Or CAPT. WM. REYNOLDS.

Mr Friekds—
It is not as a stranger, nor as the Captain of a
ship-of-war recently arrived, but rather as one whose
recollections of then islands go back to more than a
quarter of a century ago, and who subsequently
made hii home among you for many years, that I
venture to say a few words on this interesting occasion of the annual meeting of the American Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, at Honolulu.
So long ago as 1840 it was quite evident that
American influence, both lay and clerical, was thepredominant agency at work in shaping the religious, social and business relations of this people, and to my
brother officers and to myself it was most gratifying
to find that, under the auspices of our countrymen, a
very satisfactory state of things prevailed here, in
marked contrast to what had been observed at the
southern groups in this ocean.
I will endeavor to state briefly the prominent points
which then came under my notice, and which subsequently became more apparent to me, and to oiler in
passing, a slight contrasting allusion to the condition of matters in the South Pacific.
The relations between the foreigners residing
here and the Hawaiians were then, in the main
peaceful, and this unusual but happy condition has
continued to this day. Acts of violence between individuals of the two races have been almost unknown,
and, if lam not mistaken, it is only within a few
months that the life of a white man has been taken
by a Hawaiian since the advent of the American
Missionaries in 1820.
The Hawaiian people have been generally educated
in due regard to their capacity and needs, insomuch
that the bulk of them have been able to read and
write, and a fair proportion qualified to conduct such
business as pertains to their modes of life. Hawaiians have had seats for many years in Parliament,
have served as judges and jurors, and have engaged
in the practice of law and in various other callings
and occupations.
They possess the advantages of newspapers in the
Hawaiian language, and they are very much given
to writing letters to and fro by the post
The marriage tie was early established among
them, and the family relation encouraged with an
Improvement of their moral condition as remarkable*
as that of their intellectual advancement
Churches have been erected in every hamlet and
the Sabbath has ben as reverently observed as it it
at home.
The Bible was long ago published in the Hawaiian
language and distributed by the American Mission
•xMbsively among the people.

For all these advantages the Hawaiian people are
indebted to the gesvous kindness of American
friends, who, 48 yeartAgo, when the rest of mankind were indifferent to the welfare of the Hawaiian
race, founded a Christian Mission within this group,
and who have sustained that Mission with unfailing
seal and liberality np to the present day.
To the labors of these American Missionaries, the
Hawaiian people owe their written language and all
the literature they possess, as well as the education
by which they are enabled to read and write, and to
take a part in the affairs of life.
A college, a high school, divers boarding schools,
and a system of common schools, after the New
England model, have been the means by which the
American Mission have so successfully elevated the
Hawaiians above the ignorant state in which they
were found in 1820, and so early was this process of
instruction inaugurated and so successful was its
operation among the people that, when in later years,
Missionaries of another creed sought to establish a
footing here, they found it necessary Jo set aside their
usual practice of non-education, and to enter into
competition with the American Mission in the matter
of instructing the natives, in order to maintain their
ground at all.
Another wise and thoughtful act of the American
Mission was the establishment of a boarding school
for the children of the chiefs, in an excellent family
of the Mission, which gave to them the inestimable
advantage of the influence of a good New England
home during their tender years, in addition to the
educational opportunities thus provided for. This
school was in successful operation in 1840, and was
one of the most gratifying examples of the liberal
and judicious measures of onr countrymen for the
benefit of the Hawaiians that then fell under my observation. The present King, as well as the late
King, were members of this first Hoyal school.
I am not aware that any cotemporaneous Mission
in the Pacific, or any Mission established at a later
day in this ocean, has had so great a measure of
success attendant on their efforts, as has been the
case with the Hawaiians under the instruction of the
Missionaries from the United States.
At Tahiti, in 1830, the difference in favor of the
Hawaiians was very manifest, although an English
Mission had been established there at that time for
more than forty years, and over twenty in advance
of the American Mission here. Since then events
have placed Tahiti out of the comparison.
At the Tonga Isles, a civil and religious war was
prevailing in 1840, encouraged by the English missionaries of that day as stated by Captain Wilkes,
in the narrative of the U. S. Kxploring Expedition;
and at the Navigator Group, where is also an English
mission, civil and religious wars have prevailed of
late years, adding largely, of course, to the other
causes at work, in depopulating those islands.
At New Zealand, the newspapers of the day are
boasting of having the longest war on hand ever
known, between the English and the New Zealand
people. At these islands an English mission has
been established for more titan fifty years, and has
the benefit of a bishopric or two, in its support, a
sacerdotal aid which is the one tiling needful, according to modern opinion in certain quarters, when
the conversion of a primitive people from barbarism
to Christianity is to be undertaken. Yet mission
results in New Zealand, even with such a potent
priestly agency at work, have not had the highest
success or produced the most gratifying results.
Only last year a coasting schooner was cut off by the
natives, and an English missionary particularly selected and put to death, and afterwards eaten; a
little transaction which certainly does not exhibit the
most affectionate relations as existing between the
natives and their pastors.
Bishop Williams of Waipa, New Zealand, has published an account of Christianity among the New
Zealanders from 1805 to 1865, on which an English
critic remarks as follows : One of the most recent
acts of the New Zealanders in connection with Christianity was to eat a missionary or rather a missionary's brains, and the Bishop of Waipa may well say
that it may seem a most unfavorable tune for publishing a book on Christian missions, but more particularly one which professes to give an account of
Christianity among the New Zealanders. However,
the Bishop is not altogether dissatisfied with the
results of missionary labors and seems to think that
if Satan, in the form of Romish priests, could be cast
oat, true Christianity would make great progress."
That Bishop therefore finds Satan in the form of
Roman Catholic priests in the way of his making the

"

New Zealanders true Christians, after 50 years trial,

whereas another Bishop nearer at hand and newly
entered upon the mission field in the Pacific, finds
the obnoxious American Puritans (accorning to
a recent catechism, descendants of one Brown
and his followers who, settled New England after
cutting off the head of Charles the First, and it
may be inferred that these descendants came here
to cut off the heads of all the Kamehamehas) to be
kit Satan in the way of making the Hawaiians true
Christians, and makes no mention of the Romish
priests who have been here for many years, as impeding in any way the good cause of religious conversion.
These two prelates disagree so decidedly upon such
a vital point, that it is not likely that either of them
can be correct, and it is to be hoped that Bishop
Williams is as unjust, and as wide of the truth, in
throwing upon the Romish priests at New Zealand,
the onus of thwarting the conversion of that martyred race, of whom, out of a very large population,
but 40,000 are reported to be now left alive, as the
Hawaiian Bishop is in pronouncing the American
mission at the Hawaiian Isles, after an existence of
nearly half a century, to be a failure; and, in
charging it with making the people worse morally
than they were in their heathen days. It is with a
sense of shame for my kind that I feel compelled to
allude upon this occasion to such an extraordinary
statement, coming from such a source. If it could
be true, or even near the truth, the cause of missions
might well be abandoned all over the earth ; but
the common phases of Hawaiian life give to it a
denial, the mission of the Morning Star in carrying
Hawaiian pastors to evangelixe other isles gives it a
denial; the scenes of yesterday and of to-day give to
it a denial; turn which way you will, there is nothing to be found in its support. Indeed the wickedness of this assertion is only to be equalled by its
folly. Puritanism and immorality have never been
allies in any shape, and all the assertions of all the
Bishojie of Christendom cannot make it appear that
the American missionaries at these islands have
afforded an exception to the rule. The most complete defence of this American mission, if it needs
one, is to be found at this day in these facts: that an
Hawaiian Monarch is still upon the throne, with his
people and some thousands of foreigners living together in peace and security, while the Marquesas,
Tahiti and New Zealand have long since lost their
native kings,—that the Hawaiians arc an educated
people, and the churches and schools fully attended
throughout the group, that many Hawaiians arc in
the ministry; that some are at work as missionaries
at other isles, to the South and to the West; that
others are successfully teaching their younger kindred in the schools of the kingdom; that the moral
and social condition of the people corresponds with
the advancement of their education—that no civil or
religious wars have taken place since the advent of
the American mission in 1820, and that, as is fully
apparent to any truthful observer, the Hawaiians
generally love and respect the American clergymen
and teachers who have devoted their lives to the improvement of the Hawaiian race.
I do not for a moment suppose that you, my countrymen, of the American mission, require a word of
support from me; you can safely rely upon your
position, which is impregnable as it stands upon the
sure foundation of truth and cannot be disturbed
by the slanders of your enemies; but as it is my
good fortune to be present upon this interesting
occasion, as I have been for so many years a witness
of your good deeds and an observer of their excellent results, I could not say less than I have
said. I will close with the hope that you will neither
be dismayed nor discouraged by opposition from any
quarter, and that still faithfully supported by the
Awrerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and sustained by the admiration and by the
best wishes of all good men of your own, and of
every country, you will persevere in your Christian
work unto the end.

The following facts indicate that the
English people are sensible.. Who would not
prefer to jee a drunken man whipped to a
poor horse abused ?
Lord Francis Russell, who was lately fined
in England for abusing his horse, has justbeen
acquitted on a charge of punishing his coachman. The judge ruled that as the man was
drunk, the master had a right to thrash him.

I'll X F Xl KM),

ADVER TXSEKEBYTS.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

BOARDING SCHOOL AT KOLOA.

SAILOR'S HOME!

PLW
OACEFS ORSHIP.

BKAMKN'S BETHKL—Rev. 8. C. Damon Chaplain—Kinf
street, near the Sailors' llomc. Preaching at 11 A. M.
Seats Free. Sabbath School after the morning service.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings at 74 o'clock.
N. 11. Sabbath School or Bible Class for Seamen at 8)

55

JULY, 18 67.

THE

RET. DANIEL, DOLE, AT KOLOA.
Kauai, has accommodations in his family
o'clock Sabbath morning.
Par a Few Hoarding Scholars.
FORT STREET CHURCH—Corner of fort and Beretanla
streets—Bey. K. Corwin Pastor. Preaching on Sundays at
tr Persons wishing to learn the Terms will apply to him
or the Editor of Tmt Fsissd."
6tf
11 A. M. and 7J P. M. Sabbath School at 10 A. M.
STONE CHURCH—King street, above the Palace—Rev. H. H.
CONWAY,
<V
every
Sunday
Hawaiian
at
»J
ALLEN
Parker Pastor. Services In
A. M. and S P. M
ka» alhar, Hawaii,
CATHOLIC CHURCH—Fort street, near Beretanla—under Will continue the Oenersl Merchandise and Shipping business
the charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Msigret, assisted by Key,
at
theaboveport,
where they are prepared to furnish
Pierre Parens. Servicesevery Sunday at 10 A.M. and U P.M
the Justly celebrated KawaihaePotatoes, and
SMITH'S CHURCH—Beretanlastreet, near Nuuanu streetsuch other recruits as are required
by whale ships, st the
Rev. Lowell Smith Pastor. Services In Hawaiian every
Snndsy at 10 A. M. and 2} P. M.
shortestnoticeand on the most reasonable terms.
REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH—Corner of Kukui and
on Hand.
Ml-ly
Nuuanu streets, under charge of Rt. Rev. Bishop Staley,
assisted by Rev. Messrs. Ibbotson, Gallagher and Klkicigm. A. r. csbtss.
ton. English service every Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7j swissus rsoK.
P.M.
C. BREWER A CO.

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OR. J. IrIOTT SMITH,

Dentist,

666 ly

Office corner of Port and Hotel Streets.

E. HOFFMANN, M.l>.
Physician end Surgeon,
Comer Merchantand Kaahajnanu sU., near Postofnoe. 681 ly
C. H. WETMORE, M. D.
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,

HILO, HAWAII, a L

N. B

—REFER TO—

Jobs M.Hood, Esq.,
Chas. Bbswbe, k Co.

I
JsmssHobsbwbll, Esq. J
J.C. Merrill A Co.
1
R. B. Swais a Co.
>
Cbas. Wolcott Brooks Esq. )

Mew York.

043 ly

Corner of Port and Merchant Streets.

C. S. BARTOW,

inetloneer,

Sales Room oa Qaeest Street, sas dear
073
Kaahumanu street.
E. P, ADAMS.

lists

ly

Anetleneer and Commission Mrrthant,
FIRE PROOF STORE,
la Roblasea's Building, tiuera Street,

R
noswn.

JOHN 8. McGREW, M. D.(

630-ly

648-ly

direct or Indirect, with any outfitting establishment, and allowing no debts to be collected at his office, he hopes to five ss
food satisfaction in the future as he has In the past.
CT Office on Jas. Robinson & Co.'s Wharf, near the U. g.
666 3m
Coniulste.
J. 0. HSRSILL,

JOBS U CRICKS*.

ALDRICH, MERRILL & Co.,
Commi§§ion Merchants
Auctioneers,

Part Street.

204 and 206 California Street,

Tools, aid Aeriealtural implements,

ly

Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants, aid
Dealers in General Merchandise,

Keep constantly on hsnd a fullassortment of merchandise, for
the supply of Whalersand Merchant vessels.
066 ly
J. B. ATHSSTOS.

AMOS S. COOKS.

CASTLE A COOKE,

Importers and General Merchants,
In Fireproof Store, King street,opposite the Seamen's Chapel.
yy.is»c>, ivgouta for
Dr. Jaynes Celebrated Family Medicines,
Wheeler Wilson's Sewing Machines,
*- Sugar Company,
TheKohsla
TheNew England Mutual Life Insurance Company,
The New York Pbenix Marine Insurance Company,
006 ly

JOHN THOS. WATERHOUSE,

Importer and Dealer in General Merchandise. Honolulu, H. I

—REFERENCES—
Honolulu
His Ex R. C. WyUie,..Hon. B. F. Snow, Esq.,
Thos. Spencer,Esq
11110
Son,
Dlmomd k
H Dickinson, Esq...Lahsina Mcßoerw Merrill, San Francisco
«
Esq.,
Q.
Lawton,
T.
.San
C.' W. Brooks
Co.. F. Field ft Eice,
New York
Tobln. Bros, ft Co.,
Wita*,aiohard»*Oo,Hooilala.

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T\r PHANCIBO o.
ALSO, AGENTS OF THE

as

C. L. RICHARDS It CO.,

SASTL B. OsJTLS.

Office—Over Dr. E. Hoffmann's Drag Store, corner of Kaaha
msnu and MerchantBts., opposite thePost Office.
Orrios Hooas—From 8 to 10 A. M.i from i to 6 P. M.
WW ly
RssiDßSoa Ehba lions" o> Adajis St.

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R. W. ANDREWS,

MACHINIST.
ALL KINDS OF LIGHT
CHINERY, GUNS, LOCKS, A-c.
REPAIRS
Fellows'
Fart Street, opposite Odd

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381-ly

San Francisco and Honolulu Packets.

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McCraken, Merrill & Co.,
FORWARDINC AND

t'oiiiiiiission Merchants,
Portland.,

Oregon.

BEEN ENGAGED IN OUR PREHAVING
business for apwards of seven years, and being
located in a fire proof brickbuilding, we are prepared receive
to

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Wheeler Wilson's
AGENTS FOR

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SEWING MACHINES!
rTUUS MACHINE HAS ALL THE LATEST

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and dispose of Island staples, such as Sugar, Bice, Syrups, Palu,
Cotfce, Ac., to advantage. Consignments especially solicited
for the Oregon market, to which personal attentionwill be paid,
and upon which ossh advances will be made whenrequired.
best
Ham Fssscujco Rbtbsucss:
sonable terms.
Badger Llndenberger, Jss. Pstrlek k Co.,
Also for sale, Photographs of the Craters Kllaaee sod
Fred. Ikon,
w. T. Coleman Co.,
Haloakala,and other Island Scenes theKINDS KAMkStevens, Baker A 00.
UAMEIIA, etc., etc.
Post la«n Rsrssssoss:
At the Callery on Fort Street.
Allen A Lewis.
Lsdd k Tllton. Leonard A Grseo.
H. L. CHASE
HoBOLOLO RSTSSSSOSS:
P. B.—Having purchased the Portrait Negatives from Mr.
a Bavidge. A) Ml-ly
Walker, Allen k Co.,
Weed, dupllcstecopies can be had by those person wlsbroi hr
L
ths same.

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Hall..

improvements, and, Inaddltion to former premiums, was
awarded the highest prise above all Baropean and Amsrtean
Sewing Machines at the World's Exhibition in PARIS In 1161,
exchange, ate.
and at the Exhibition In London In 186*
.„
Theevidenceof thesuperiority of this Machineis fosnd In the
XT All freight arriving st Ban Francisco, by or to the HonoluluLine of Packets, willbe forwarded ran or oosunssioa. record ofIts sales. In 1861—
The Orover k Baker Company, Boston,
XT Exchange on Honolulubought and sold. Xt
—aarsaaaoas
The Florence Company, Massachusetts
Honolulu
Co.,
The Parker Company, Connecticut,
Hears. C. L. Richards A
J. M. Singer A- Co., Mew York,
H HscxrsLD k Co.,
0 Bbswses/00.,
Finkle A Lyon,
**
Bishop* Co
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Cuss. W. Howland, Delaware,
Dr. R. W. Woob,
M. Greenwood k Co., Cincinnati, 0.,
N. 8. C. Perkins, Norwalk, 0.,
Hon. E. H. Allbb,
Wilson H. Smith. Connecticut,
D O. WiTsasus, Esq.,
sold
18A60, whilstthe Whssst A Wilson Company, of Bridesauir
port, made and sold 1»,7i»dsring the same period.
II tf
CT Please Call aad Exaaslae.

Particularattentiongiven to the sals and purchase of merchandise, ships' business, supplying whaleshipi, negotiating

ssnt

PHOTOGRAPHS!
dr VISITK ; LARGER PHOTOgraphs; Copying and Enlarging.
CARTES
manner, ami on the most resRetouching done In the

MA-

COOKE,

CASTLE

—AND—

LADD,

Importer aadDealer in Hardware, Cattery, .iterhaalts'
031

I'hyslrlan and Snrueon.

San Francisco.

THE BUSINESS ON HIS OLD
Plan or settling with Officers and Seamen immediately on
CONTINUES
their Shipping at his Office. Having no connection, either

W. A. ALDSICH.

lodging, per week,.

$6
o
do.
do.
Shower Baths on the Premise*.
Mrs. CRABB.
Manager.
Honolulu, April 1,1866.

LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT.

JUDD,

N.

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AQKNTS

Per Ike Parcaascaud Saleef Islaad Produce.

GEORGE WILLIAMS,

HILO DRUG STORE.

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Honolulu. Oiihu, 11. I.
AGENTS
Boston
Of lite
and Honolulu Packet I.lar.
Officers' table, with
AGENTS
Per theMaker, W ailuku A Hiinu I'laulatlous Seamens' do. do.

MedicineChests carefully replenished at the

A. P.
attorney and Counsellor at Law,

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ADVERTISEIVIEra-TS.

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PUBLISHED

AND EDITED BT

SAMUEL C. DAMON.

4 MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED
MARINE

TO TEMPERANCE, SEAMEN,
AND
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THE FRIEND, JULY, 1867.
For the Friend.

Will yon meet me there ?
Far from our dull mortal
'vVuy beyond

eyes,

our earthly sight;

Card.—The underslgmil would most respectfully acknowl
Address by H. A. P. Carter, Esq.,
edge the honor conferred upon him, by tbe Subscription of $60,
IMivtrnl '(( the dedication of the Drinkimj Fountain by twelve gentlemen of Honolulu,
to constitute linn an Horn'
rary Member of the " Queen's Hospital Association.''
in Honolulu, June 15, 186Z.
S. C. DAMON.
GSNTI.EMRN

OF THE

HONOLULU TEMPERANCE I.EOION I

By your favor the pleasant duty devolve* ujmti me to congratulate you to-day upon tin; completion of your Fountain. lam
happy so to do, and to felicitate you as well upon the prompt
and liberal l mepunas which an ever generous public made to
your appeal tor thenecessary means; upon the cordialco-operation of His Majesty's Government to enable you to carry out
your design, and npon your happily chosen site, under the

Where the eternal city lies
Clothed in robes of endless light;
Where tbe saints and angels dwell,
Holier far than tongue can tell;
Whore the blight ot gin ne'er fell.
Will you meet me there?

shadow of those walls withinwhich the fricudsof TemtH'ranee
have so often gathered. I congratulate also this assemblage
and tile public, generally, u|s>n the ac-ouieiuon to our public
works of one at once so ornamental ami bo useful.
My friends, this day marks a new era in the history of Temperance BBsetStsSS in this place, anil 1 hail its brightness and
glory as auspicious omens for their future. To-day, the friends
of TcmiMTanco assemble to dedicate the first structure erected
solely in the cause of Temperance in this city, and so long as
this stands it will be your protest against the vice of intemtwrancc, and tile musical plash of its falling waters will be your
invitation to all to partake of its benefits. Happy shall we be
if, by its clearness and purity, it shall prove suggestive to all of
Far beyond the shores of time
that purity of life and thought which the practice of TemperWhere our pleading Saviour stands,
ance promotes.
Tile distinctive feature of your cause, as typified by this
In that holy, sinless clime,
fountain, is its freedom to all. While, on the one hand, you
With His wounded Ride and hands,
use every means in your power to check the How in our midst
There will be the ransomed blest
of the dark stream of Intemperance, with all its horrid train of
evil influences—itssaddened homes, its blighted hoBSB, its disLeaning on their Saviour's breast;
honored graves—here, you ots'ii up a fountain of that element
There we'll lind our long sought rest;
from Eden's day, lias BSSa llisl's purest gift to man, and
Will you meet me there?
L. K. which,
which, gathered baas a hundred rills in yonder smiling valley,
you lead hither to continually i>our out its tribute to the happiness atal comfort of your fellow men.
[Kkfi.y.]
We hail with peculiar satisfaction and joy the presence of
I hope there to meet you.
these children,with their bcnining laces, and the Wight-waving
banners of tbe Christian associations they represent. We
would early implant the seeds of Temperance in their young
in loving our Maker who sent us His Son,
hearts, forit is our earnest hope that when the mantles of their
That, dying for sinners, we might be thus won,
fstlters have lalieu upon litem, and to their hands have been
And pleading His merits for me to atone,
o.tnniitted these works of Faith ami I.ove, that they will
00 cast all my cares upon Jesus alone,
remember the bright June morning when they gathered with us
to celebrate the dedication of the first drinking fountain of
Who ever is ready to plead, and help save
Hawaii nei, and that, n memlici-iug this, they will, with pride
The vilest of sinners from death and the grave
and joy, carry on the causewe represent.
That with Him in glory we all may appear,
Gentlemen of the Legion: it is our trust that this outward
To worship the Father through Eternity's year.
dedication Is but symbolic of the dedicationof your henrts and
efforts to the great cause you have esisiused,and as this is to
In hearing the sentence, Come enter thy rest,"
\k a monitor and an invitation, so you arc to stand steadfast in
1 hope there to meet you among all the blest.
your lot, and with increasing numbers and efficiency, persevere
until,
not here alone, hut in many a disconsolate home and desThough darkness encompass, amiweak be our faitli— pondent
heart, you will have reared imiierishable monuments
Though Satan assail us, remember He suith,
of Temperance atal Love to l>ear witness to your fidelity and
"We're tempted no more than we're able to bear," leal. Your cause is an undying one—foundedupon the highest
moral needs of man. No legal code Is complete without a
And ever Ho's ready to hear a faint prayer ;
recognition of its rules; no moral code is sufficient without an
He'll help us at all times to overcome sin,
incorporation of its principles; no liuman characteris perfect
That we may be holy—a crown thus to win.
without practising its precepts, it challenges the highest study
of
the (Statesman and Philanthropist. Its need Is felt in all the
How gladly I welcome Him unto my heart,
ramifications of society. It should reach to the utmost limit 01
And'pray that all evil from mc may depart
humanity, and sound the very depths of human woe. You are
That by His free grace, I enabled will be
its recognised exponents here, and your inspiration should be
equal to your gtssl cause. It is in this trust that we here
To triumph o'er Satan, and meet there with thee.
dedicate this Fountain to Uie immortal cause of Temperance.
Yes, there with the ransomed I hope we will meet,
For there we may kneel at our dear Saviour's feet;
Sailing of the "Morning Stir."—This
And there, after life's stormy seas have been crossed,
we
all
be
lost
vessel
sailed for a long cruise among the
In rapturous pleasure
will

When life's battles all are o'er,
And we sleep within the tomb ;
When we leave this earthly shorn
Then to meet our Until doom ;
When we've fought the christian fight,
And our souls have taken flight
To that world of pure delight,
Will you meet me there!

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MARINE JOURNAL.
, .I.
PORTHONLFUS

ARRIVALS.
June 2—Am schr San Diego, Tengfctrom, —days from Howlaud1! Island.
4—Am clipper shipMagnet, Crosby, 18 day* from San
Francisco.
6—Am ship Nightingale, Dexter, 16 days from San
Francisco.
7—Haw'n bark Bcrn.ee, Cathcart, 14 days from San
Francisco.
9—U. 8. 8. Lackawanna, Reynolds, from Kauaf.
10—Am brig Morning Star, Bingham, fr Marquesas Is.
13—Am ship Sumatra, Kinsman, 15 days from San
Francisco.
21—Dark D. C. Murray, Dennett, 12 days from San
Francisco, with radsc and passengers, to Walker
& Allen.
23—Am brig Advance, Perry, 14 days fr San Francisco.
26—Am clipper ship Bengal, Ingersoll, 16 days limn Sun
Fninclsco.

DEPARTURES.
June I—Am1—Am brig Hesperian, Wood, for Humlroldt.
4—Am ship Magnet, Crosby, for Hongkong.
4—Kukh. gunboat(sornostay, I.utkc, lor Japan.
4—Am bark Cambridge, Brooks, forSan Francisco.
6—Am harkenUne Jane A. Falkiulmrg, Graff, for
Portland, Oregon.
6—Dr. bark Kasttteld, Watts, for Valparaiso.
7—Am bark Camden, Mitchell, for Tcckalet.
B—Am ship Nightingale, for Japan.
14—8hii>Sumatra, Kinsman, for Hong Kong.
14—Am Hcltr San Diego, Tengstrom, for Howland'H Is.
16 —Haw. brig Kamehameha V., Stone, for Uaker'n Is
22—Am bark Rainier, Haydn, for SanFrancisco.
24—Am brig Advance, Ferry, for Japan.
28—Haw. bark Uernice, Cathcart, for San Francisco.

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MEMORANDA.
ok thk Morning Star.—The Morning Stitr
sailed from Honolulu for the Marquesas Island March 98th,
via Hilo. Among thepassengers were nine Marnuesnns who
had been under the instruction of Mr. Kicknell the lawt two
years. The ftl 8. reached Hilo March 31sl. On the 2<l April
the people of Hilo gave her a public welcome. On the evening of the thirdshe resumed her voyage, taking on board Mr.
Coan. Messrs. Parker and Coan went as delegates of the
Hawaiian Uoard. On the eighth a Mavqiusau woman died,
and wrs buried at sea. We crossed the line in 169 s West
Longitude, and made Uapou on the 27th. Lay off and on all
night, and were off Hakahekau in the morning—the station
of Rev. Samuel Kauwealoha. Hailed on the 30th of April
for Nuubiva, ami anchored in the harl>or of Taiohae. The
next day sailed for Hahuna and thence to Hivava and Fatuhiva. On the last the general meeting of the Marquesas Mission. We lay at anchor one week, and after returninu the
missionaries to theirhomes, set sail for Hilo May 22d,r*»achinu
that jK>rt June6th. Lay at anchor two nights, and NACfeed
11. Dinoiiam, Jr., Master M. S.
Honolulu June 10th.
Report

In praising our Maker, that mercy He gave
Micronesian Islands at 3, P. M„ on Monday,
Where wrath was deserving ; He stooped us to save.
Oh ! there with the angels and saints we will be,
PASSENGERS.
July I. It is expected that she will touch at
Enjoying a life where from sin we'll be freeseveral islands hitherto unvisited by any misFrom San Francisco—Per Bernice, June 7—F Brown, M
Where troubles, and trials, and temptings shall cease,
Httrkunan, Msstcr Bucktuian, A Morrison, A Lausence, ii
And ail through eternity, perfect cur peace.
sionary vessel. Her cruise will necessarily RPritchard,
T H Jordan, J J Paulsen, V JHuuld—9.
be
exFor
Han Fkancisco—Per Cambridge, June 4—Lady SuJune, 1807.
T. G. T.
be protracted, so that she may not
jierior, Miss Bcllon, Miss Chambers, Miss Ella Durioit, Mix*
l.ysaght, 3 children, J Halstead, T Halstcad,Mrs Clark, Julin
The Rev. Theodore Golick.—From a pected to return in less than five or six months. Davis,
Mr and Mrs Gough, J Noble—l6.
off,
the
cast
the
MisFrom, Howland's Island—Per San Diego, June 3—o
C/tristian World lately received, Just before the hawser was
copy of

we learn that Mr. Gulick is under appointment to go to the city of Mexico as a mis-

Reiners, 9 Hawaiians—lo.
For Valparaiso—Per Eastßeld, June O—J Estall, Mrs
Estall and 6 children, JohnHunt, James Wright, JamesBlack,
R N Beebee—ll.
From Ban Francisco—Per Sumatra, June 13—Mr Flitllips.
For Honokono—Per Sumatra, June 14—Alai, Akettu,
Youngcheong, CluiuKi,Ahsee.
For Guano Islands—Per Kamehameha V., June 16—AJ
Kerney, John Fletcher, and 9 Hawaiians—ll.
For San Francisco—Per Rainier, June 22—E Hoffschlao.
Forth to their toil the missionaries go,
ger, J C Pierce, E Damon, Prof W D Alexander, W Cornwell,
Gladly to lessen human guilt and woe.
J Sheldon, F W Wise, II Halstesd—B.
God goes before them, freely ta prepare
Fsom San Francisco—Per D. C. Murray, June 21—(len'l
Mr.
A way in pagan lands,—Salvation's highway there." MrCook, wife and svt,Miss W. Dawson, Miss F. Coomb*,
J Callahan,Messrs. 11. Devrill, A. Divrill, Litigate, Hyman, W
Schronbstadle, A. M. Preston, Robt. C. i/sid, Kupeahi.
Information Wanted,
FOR Ban Francisco—Per Bernice, June 28—C Bulge, r
W Brown, Thne Frei.
Respecting Edward St. Germain, of Lansingburgh, New
York. Any information will be gladly received by the editor
MARRIED.
of the Friend or Oaxtttt.
As«sTBONO-MoROAN-On Wednesday. April 10 at All
DIED.
Souls Church, New York, by Rev. Dr. Bellows, William N.
Armstrong to Mary Frances, youngest daughter of the late
Hathawav —lv Honolulu, on the morning of June 21, Captain
E. E. Morgan, all of New York.
Frederick 11. Hatltaway,aged 49 years.
residence or
Weaver—Arkstrono—On May Ist, at theYork,
Laval—ln this city, on the 27th of June, Geo. Wood Laval,
by Rev.
Est]., 128 Fiah Avenue, New
Hopkins,
Lucius
aged 63 years. Mr. Wood was a native of Bordeaux, France,
Phillip
College,
1.. WeaDr. Hopkins, President of Williams
and has been a resilient of Ihcse Islands 42 years.
daughter
of
thelate
Rev.
E.,
and
Ellen
of
Ban
ves,
Francisco,
Constantino—lnSan Francisco, on the 16th of May, 1867,
this city.
at his residence on Montgomery street, J. Constantlne, a native Richard Armstrong of
by the Rev.
June
Blh,
Honolulu,
Bulklbt—Dexter—ln
of Geneva, Swltserland, aged 87 years. The deceased was
of the American
8. C. Damon, Col. Charles 8. Bulkley, Agent
the father of Madame dc Vsrigny, uf lnl P""*to Miss G. Dexter, of Marths s
May 13th, 1887, James C. Dayley, a Russian Telegraph Company,
lUvLsaJMn Oakland,
ami daughter of dipt. Dexter, master or the clipper
native of Salem, Mass., aged 32 years. Tks deceased was a Vineyard,
ship Nightingale.

sionary Hymn was sung, and prayer was ofin English by the Rev. D.Dole, and in
sionary of the "American and Foreign Chris- fered
Hawaiian
by the Rev. B. W. Parker.
tian Union." He will leave New York a*
the
world ! the isles that ages saw.
Joy
to
sooa as he considers it safe to enter the coun- "Vassals of sin,
now wait Messiah's law.
try.

Return of General McCook.—After an
absence of six months on a visit to California
and Washington, we are glad to welcome the
American Minister on his safe return to
Honolulu with his family.
The Rev. E. CorwiiN will deliver the
oration on the 4th of July at the Stone
Church, before theAmerican residents, and all
others inclined to assemble on that occasion.
The Rev. E. Johnson.—We understand
that Mr. E. Johnson, missionary at Waioli,
Kauai, has gone in the Morning Star as the
delegate to the Mission churches in Micro-

nesia.

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SttStritf, Hoi. 18. Sofs

HONOLULU, JULY 1, 1867.

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{(MStros,

M24.

The First Missionary Trip of the New "Horning Star."
By Rev. TITUS COAN,

My Second Voyage to the Marquesas

Islands.
Packet Morning Star," )
Hilo, Hawaii, April 3, 1867.
J
We left Hilo this day on a missinnnry
voyage to the Marquesas. On board Rev.
H. Bingham, Jr., master, and wife; Frank
H. Wise,chief mate; Warren Morse,second
mate; six seamen, a steward and cook;
Missionary

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Key. B. W. Parker and T. Coan, delegates
of Hawaiian Board; Misses Carrie D. Parker
and Maria 0. Kekela, B. H. Naglc, and nine
Marqiiesans, passengers—twenty-six all told.
We also have the corpse of Joseph Tiiekai,
a Mart|uesan chief, and one of the first converts to Christianity on the islands, who died
at Honolulu, and is being returned for sepul-

his native Fatuiva.
April 8. —At 4, A. M., Meto, a Marquesan
female, died. She came on board at Honolulu sick. During the day the corpse was
prepared for its watery grave, and at 4, P. M.,
by order of the master, our noble packet waff
arrested in her foaming track through the sea,
and she lay quietly upon the waters. Remarks were made, prayers offered, nnd tears
shed, when the remains of our Marquesan
sister plunged into the dark waves and passed
from our sight. Again the Morning Star
took the wind into her wings nnd rushed
ture to

through the waters at the rate of nine knots
an hour. It was a solemn season, and the
sudden arrest of the ship in her pathway
through the deep, nnd all the attendant circumstances of committing a fellow being to
a lone grave in this vast waste of waters,
seemed to impress us with the worth of man,
when the winds, the waves, the inanimate
ship, and all surrounding objects seemed to
pause in their career, and, with rational and
immortal beings, to bow in silent awe to the
high behest of Him who remands our bodies
to the earth and calls our spirits before His

bar.
Sleep, sister, in thy deep and dark tomb.
The " Dayspring from on high " dawned

upon thee ere thou wast called away, and we
have hope for thee, that when the sea shall
give up her dead, then thou will appear an
angel of light among the ransomed and joyous throng, which come up from all nations,
and kindreds, and peoples ami tongues.
Sabbath, April 21.—"Land ho!" rang
from our decks at dawn this morning. Light
winds, calms and a three-knot current have
set us far west of our codrse, and we are
among the Paumotu group, named by Bougainville " Dangerous Archipelago." Two
beautiful islands are within two miles (if us,
called King George's Isles, but in the vernacular, Taroa and Taputa. The larger is
fifteen miles and the smaller twelve miles
long, and separated by a channel four and a

half miles wide. They were discovered by
Le Maire and Schoutcr in 1616. They are
low coral ntolls, belonging to a group of
nearly one hundred, lying between the Marquesan and Society Islands; and they are
well named Paumotu, which means "A cloud
of islands.'' Different islands of the group
were discovered at different times nnd by
many navigators, as Quinos in 1606; Le
Maire and Schouter in 1616 ; Koggewein in
1722 ; Byron in 1765 ; Wallis and Carteret
in 1767; Cook in 1769, 1773 and 1774;
Bougainville in 1763; Boenecheo in H72
and 1774; Edwards in 1791; Bligh in 1792;
Wilson in 1797; Turnbull in 1803. Later
and more careful observations have been
made on the group by Kotzebuc in 1816,
1823,
Bellingshausen in ISI9,
Beeehey in 1526. Fitzroy in 1835, and
Wilkes in IS4I. Wilkes supposes the population to 'he ten thousand. The inhabitants
are in a degraded and, mostly, in a savage
state. Nearly all the islands are low, and of
coral formation, builded by that silent and
wonder-working architect, the zoophyte.
The sight of King George's Islands on a
bright Sabbath morning was truly charming.
The shores are one continuous belt of white
coral sand, kissed by the blue rippling wavelets. Within this encircling zone is a bright
garland of evergreens, composed of the cocoanut, pandanus, knu, and various shrubs and
grasses, so intertwined as to form a beautiful

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From or festooned with tropical vines. Even on
coronal of tropical emerald on the brow of Hakahekau, but without inhabitants. north,
the perpendicular walls of precipices, shrubs
this
Hakanahi
he
.visits
on
the
valleys
fadeless wreath
Neptune. Enclosed by
of verdure, like green velvet, are
is tbe quiet lagoon, bathed in silver sunbeams south and east, and thus communicates with and patches
seen
to
The tenacious and plume-like
cling.
at
shores.
the
There
is
one
French
priest
crescented
people.
and rippling upon its
ironwood covers and fringes the lofty caves
After an enchanting view of this gem of Uapou, and he has a neat and well-kept and
pointed rocks ; and down from the dizzy
the Pacific, the Morning Star went about chapel, of native material and architecture,
dash the merry cascades, in lines of
heights
with
and
altar,
bell,
a
short
at
Hakahekau.
pictures
and stood off from the land, and in
It was mournful, as we strolled up this molten silver, from theirrock-ribbed fountains
time the beauteous islets, with their white
shores, their silvery lagoons and their green beautiful and rich vale, to mark the silence of three thousand feet above the sea. Along
cloudy pavilion of
chaplets, sunk below the horizon and disap- and desolation that reigned there. After these lofty pinnacles the
peared. We looked with a sigh for the dark leaving the little cluster of huts near the Jehovah moves upon the winged wind, or
shore, not a living soul was seen, not a voice hangs in soft drapery when the aerial chariot
dwellers on these bright islets.
Hakahekau, Sabbath, April 28.—We beat of man heard throughout all the central and stands still. This is the harbor where Capt.
up to land this morning, and at 10, A. M., upper portions of the valley. The trees were Porter, of the United States frigate Essex,
this bay the gifted
the Rev. S. Kauwealoha, who is located at burdened with breadfruit, cocoanuts, guava, reveled in 1813, and from
Melville, with his friend Toby, abyoung
&c.,
a
but
there
were
not
hands
enough
us
boat.
He
papaia,
in
station,
came
off
to
this
was overjoyed to see the new Morning Star, "to pluck the wanton growth." Untenanted sconded to the hills, whence he made his deway to the valley of the
and to meet old and new friends. Two years houses were in a state of rapid decay, and vious and toilsome
from'which,
with all its parold
heiaus
Taipis
(Typee),
silence
the
in
created
an
solitude
and
reigned
without a visit from Hawaii had
and its bewitching enchantardent desire to see the missionary packet. and dancing grounds, where midnight fires adisical beauty but
too glad to escape. We
Hakahekau, Monday, April 29.—This day once burned; where dark forms moved in ments, he was
was spent in landing Kauwealoha's supplies, the gloom; where human sacrifices were saw the valley he threaded, the ridge he bewhich he
and in taking in ballast, cocoanuts, bread- offered to demons; where the lascivious strode, the cane-brake through
he
the
where
concealed
struggled,
jungle
the
wild
of
cannibals
once
dance
and
orgies
fruit, sugar-cane, pigs, fowls, &c, all of which
Kauwealoha gave us in generous abundance. made the deep groves resound ; where the himself, and the towering ridge over which
This is a beautiful valley, some three miles dead beat of the hula drum was heard the he passed; but he lost his track and his
Taipi—the
long and one-quarter of a mile wide, with livelong night, and where the craggy rocks, reckoning at the same time.
one lateral valley running off to the left. A the beetling cliffs and the lofty hills echoed Typee of Melville—is only four hours walk
sweet babbling brook runs all the length of to the shouts and the "midnight howlings" from Taiohae, and from ancient times, there
has been a well-known trail from the head of
the valley. The vale is rich with luxuriant of blood-thirsty savages.
one
valley to the other. The distance is
ceased,
baleful
the
These
have
these
the
royal
banyan,
howlings
vegetation. Here is
five miles, and men walk it in from
noble breadfruit, the waving cocoanut and fires are extinguished, these dancers sleep in some
three to four hours. Hapii, or Hahpah of
are
silent
in
hibiscus,
and
fierce
warriors
chestnut,
death,
the
these
the
South
Sea
palm,
the pandanus, the kou, the ironwood, the the dust. Their bloody trophies no longer Melville, is between Taiohae and Taipi, and
koaii, the candle-nut, the guava, banana, hang in their houses, and the hills no longer only two or three hours walk from the former.
These valleys are on the same side (south) of
castor-oil, and many other trees, shrubs, echo with their infernal howlings.
Tuesday, April 30.—Having finished our the island as Taiohae, and the author ofTyplants, vines and grasses, filling the whole
and Omoo was, during all his sad four
valley with perennial verdure and wanton work at Uapou, we took our anchor and cast pee
months
of captivity, only four or five miles
10,
and,
M.,
our
at
taking
A.
off
moorings
luxuriance.
thronged harbor he left.
The ridges and hills which enclose the Kauwealoha on board, we sailed for Nuu- from theabove-named
The
valleys, with one or two
hiva,
the
miles
due
The
islsen,
at
north.
opening
twenty-two
valley, except the narrow
are grand and magnificent. Near the head and was in full view on our bows, with Ua- adjacent ones, were once full of inhabitants,
with wild and savage' revelry.
of the valley, and on its right bank, from two huna, Washington Island, on our weather and echoing
are
now
They
nearly depopulated, and a
bow,
of
the
subour
stem.
and Uapou receding from
to three miles inland, is some
limest scenery in nature. Within a vast At 4, P. M., we were at the entrance of Tai- sleepy silence broods over them. The French
have recently sold them to Stewamphitheatre ofrugged hills which send down ohae, or Port Anna Maria, the principal har- authorities
Co., a company of English, French
their serrated spurs to the shore, buttressed bor of Nuuhiva. Here we took a French art &
by bold and lofty precipices, are eightremark- pilot, Mr. Bruno, who brought us to an an- and others, who, it is said, are about to comable cones, two hundred to three hundred chor at 5, P. M. Two English gentlemen, mence plantations of cotton and coffee, artifeet high, and fifty to one hundred feet in Mr. Lawson and Mr. Morrison, came on cles which grow luxuriantly in the valleys
diameter, rising in solitary grandeur from board and spent the evening. A French bark, and on many of the hills of the Marquesas.
their rocky pedestals, and standing as ever- the Tampico, had come in the day before Already a considerable amount of cotton has
grown upon the different islands, and
lasting columns against the sky, giving the from the Paumotu group, where, it is said, been
vessel was offered a full cargo on freight
great amphitheatre the appearance of a cas- the captain went to procure laborers for Ta- our
tellated fortress. They are landmarks which hiti plantations. The captain set his flag to Honolulu. We hear that Stewart & Co.
may be seen far at sea, and which mark the and fired us a salute of one gun. The latter intend to introduce several hundred laborers
on Nuuhiva. That a
bay of Hakahekau, on the north-west of compliment we were unable to return, as we upon their plantations
of
cotton and coffee
on
amount
excellent
large
forms
fire-arms
or
smelt
powder
The
have
not
seen
fantastic
Uapou, without mistake.
may be produced on this group is certain.
produced by the force of ancient volcanic board the Morning Star.
Taiohae has a small population—a few
fires, and by the abrading action of winds,
Taiohae is a noble bay and safe harbor,
rain and chemical agencies on these islands, some two miles deep and one mile wide. It Frenchmen, a few English and Americans, a
are amazHg.
is bell-shaped, being narrower at the neck, or Chilian and a few other foreigners, with a
Island,
entrance,
of
Adam's
and expanding as you proceed in- reduced number of aborigines. In fact, the
The population
Uapou,
a few hundreds of
when Kauwealoha first occupied it, was more ward. The entrance is between two lofty whole island contains butonce
swarmed with
inhabitants,
each
is
whereas
of
a
it
rocky
thousand,
headlands,
the
smalland
at
the
foot
one
but
1863
in
than
forts
and arsenals
the
its
thousands.
The
French
is
and
distance
pox swept off the larger part, leaving only islet. The water deep,
gens d'armes alone are
three hundred.
Hakahekau Valley was from head to head is about half a mile. are abandoned ; two
and these act a,s a
nearly depopulated. Qnly thirty to forty The harbor is surrounded on all sides, except quartered in the barracks,the
fort, the magapeople remain. This was disheartening to the the narrow entrance at the south, with a town police. The jetty,
in a graceroad,
the
sweeping
hills,
zine,
with
latmilitary
and
diversified
school,
his
of
panorama
pre- grand
missionary, breaking up
venting the erection of a permanent meeting- eral ridges, spurs, cones, dells, glens, valleys ful curvature around the head of the bay, and
house, after most of the materials, as lime, and mounds, all clothed in living green. The shaded by two rows of large hibiscus trees—
lumber, &c., had been collected. Meanwhile highest peaks of the island rise three thousand the bridges, and in fact all the former works
and improvements of the French, are fast
the sand-fly became numerous and intolera- eight hundred and sixty feet.
ble in the valley, and Kauwealoha, in selfThe picture of this bay and its surround- going to decay. Ornamental and fruit trees,
defense, built him a house in Hakanahi, a ings is enchanting. Almost every rock and both indigenous and exotic, flourish in luxupretty little nool; twp piJps north-east of pionacle is carpeted with grasses and mosses, riance. Among these we noticed the ban-

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lives in a house some twenty by fifty feet,
yan (ficus indica), the ironwood, cocoanut, of law is little felt or feared, and a wild and He
made
of native material and divided into three
defiant
marks
tbe
tribes.
independence
pagan
breadfruit,
hibiscus,
vi,
palm,
candle-nut,
fig,
rooms. Most of his people, less than a hunVisit to the Nsaaerv.
orange, citron, lemon, lime, South Sea chestnut, guava, and numerous other trees and
Taking Mr. Bruno and Mr. Lawson, who dred, live far up the valley at the foot of a
shrubs. Three streams of considerable vol- kindly gave up the day to us, we walked one high precipice, one mileand a half distant. He
ume came roaring down the precipitous high- mile to the western part of the valley to visit blew a horn and soon collected about fifty
lands, dashing along their rocky beds, and the Sisters'boarding-school, or convent. The people, who seemed joyful to see us. Mr. L.
tearing their way through the beach of shin- houses consist of two main buildings, some has a school of thirty-two pupils—twentygle, sand and boulders into the sea.
sixty feet long, with wattled sides and four females and eight males, fifteen of whom
We visited the spot where Messrs. Arm- thatched roofs, and floors neatly matted with were present on this occasion, and were exstrong, Alexander and Parker, with their braided bamboo or cane, and smaller houses amined in reading, writing, and in reciting
wives, lived in 1833. Brother Parker had for cooking and other purposes. In one of lessons committed to memory. Laioha has
not seen the place since it was abandoned by the large buildings are thereception-room, the been here only thirteen months, and a good
our missionaries in the above-named year. rooms of the Lady Superior and of the two impression has been made on the people; so
We found tamarind trees planted by them. Sisters, the dining-room and the chapel. In it seemed to us. After examination we held
1 measured a banyan tree, and found its cir- the other the dormitory of the scholars, and a meeting with the people, when many adcumference to be eighty-five feet, while its also two convenient school-rooms. An ex- dresses were made, and Captain and Mrs.
umbrageous boughs covered a circle of some pensive stone church, or cathedral, is also in Bingham sung " Happy Land " in the ApaiThis pleased the natives greatly.
six hundred feet.
process of building on the premises. All are ang dialect.
At 2, P. M., we returned to the Morning
Why we Visited IVnnhiv*.
surrounded with an enclosure, and the amStar, taking Laioha and Jose\ a Peruvian
1. It was almost directly in our track from ple yard is planted with potatoes, bananas, convert, who has been at Uahuna
for a seaand
trees.
It is
papaia, and with shrubbery
Uapou to Uahuna.
son, and sailed for Hanamenu on Hivaoa.
and
rural,
pleasant.
heard
that
the
French
authorshady,
tropical
2. We had
The Lady Superior received us with great This Jose is from Paiti. He has been on
ities there were offended that the old Mornseventeen years, and
1865,
Bicknell,
of
and entered into conversation with the Marquesas Islands
urbanity,
Mr.
request
Star
by
in
ing
naturalized.
he
is
I baptized him
thoroughly
educated
French
ease
of
an
and fluency
took about twenty Marquesans to Oahu, all the
1860, and he has been a firm
without permit on the part of the French, or lady. She is a large woman, of fair com- at Puamau in
believer and a patient worker ever since.
explanation on the part of Mr. B. We there- plexion and dignified mien, and the two Sis- Four
years ago he went to Hoounii, a valley
as
white
fore went prepared by facts, to show that the ters were as neat as alabaster and
Taipi, on the south side of Nuuadjoining
snow.
the
ladies
were
exBoard
took
as
of
Alpine
All
Star
and
the
Hawaiian
Morning
he labored ardently as an Evan*
hiva.
Here
spot
neatness,
bore
without
scrupulous
no re- amples of
no part in that transaction, and
"
pay—teaching, preaching, arid
without
gelist
sponsibility in the case; that his Honor J. Ii or wrinkle" in any oftheir garments.
own hands to supply his
with
his
working
session
when
we
in
and
was
not
exThe
school
and Key. J. Bicknell alone purposed
wants.
He
collected thirty scholars,
physical
the
were
girls
ecuted the plan, and that they only were re- arrived, but some thirty of
who were greatly nttached to him, and for
looked
They
healthy
had
about
the
premises.
The
French
Governor
been
sponsible.
to whose conversion he had hopes. In 1863 the
irritated by the act, but before our arrival, it and cheerful, their ages ranging from fourand
small-pox broke out and raged with fearful
had been so explained to him by Mr. Law- sixteen. We visited their dormitory
virulence over the island. A large portion
and
writtheir
books
schoolrooms,
examined
son and other friendly gentlemen, that he
of the people died. Jose, who took the name
of
their
sewwas appeased, saying : " It was all very well ing, and were shown specimens
at baptism, nursed the sick of Hooumi
air
David
was
an
of
education,
There
embroidery.
ing
take
to
Hawaii
for
and
to
Marquesans
and self-forgetting care. He
patient
estabwith
and
the
whole
order about
to be returned ; but the error was in not in- neatness
lishment, and the influence on the girls must had forty cases of the disease, over whom he
forming the French officials."
Of these twenty died, and with
We called on the Governor, who is a lieu- be of a taming character. The Lady Supe- watched.
hands
he buried them all. Their
own
now
his
numbered
tenant in the Imperial navy, and a pleasant rior told us that the school
were panic stricken and left them, and
friends
of
expense
of
the
annual
average
about
and
that
thirty-five
sixty,
gentleman, of
years age.
one to care for them in the
He received us all (captain and three ladies, a pupil was one hundred and twenty dollars. he was the only
the French, as
There is also a school of about forty boys, day of extremity. In 1866
with the delegates) politely, and after a chat
and the adjoining
stated,
before
sold
Hoounii
teacher,
Taiohae.
in
a
secular
through our interpreter, Mr. Bruno, we bowed under French
of Taipi and Hapa, and David Jose
our farewell. Nothing was said about the Time failed us to visit this school, but we valleys
to leave. He therefore came
was
ordered
file,
with
in
1865,
double
of
the
natives
as
the
whole
saw
the
boys
marching
in
taking
Uahuna,
to
where we found him with
establishment,
over
the
to
Sisters'
matter had been previously dropped.
their teacher, to
where
he will return to labor in
Laioha,
a'nd
the I
3. We wished to learn what we could attend vespers, at which and at matins
three miles to the west
a
the
of
valley
Vaipaee,
drew
to
close
missionaries,
As
the
day
Bishop officiates.
about the schools of the French
are the only inhabof
These
two
Star
with
Hakatu.
!
their modes of instruction, degree of success, we all returned to the Morning
ited
on
Uahuna.
valleys
&c.,
us
Morby
Mr.
I
plantains,
given
oranges,
&c.
Hanamenu, Hivaoa, May 6.—We left UaFrom the Governor's residence we went rison, Mr. Lawson and others, and atevening huna
on the 3d, and although the distance is
to the palace of the Bishop, in a cosey little we sailed for Uahuna.
miles, yet head winds, light winds,
fifty
island
is
only
Uahuna,
with
3.—This
May
Hakatu,
dell, surrounded
tropical luxuriance.
currents have held us back,so that
c
alms
and
The Bishop, with one cure, received us thirty miles east of Nuuhiva. We left Tai- we
reached
Hanamenu to-day. This
and
only
Ist,
beating
evening
all
our
on
the
of
the
questions po- ohae
kindly, and answered
side of Hivaoa (La
western
here
harbor
is
on
the
!
wind,
arrived
we
litely and satisfactorily. He estimates the against a strong head
) It is a small but beautiful harDominica
nine
miles
long
at
thouthis
Uahuna
is
group
of
the
whole
eight
morning.*
population
and south by lofty
sand, giving Hivaoa five thousand, and di- and twenty-four in circuit. Like the other bor, flanked on the north
from the
protected
and
mountain
spurs,
viding up the balance among the five other islands of the group, it is of igneous origin,
the rear, by a range of
-trades,
in
south-east
bristling
and
broken
and
precipitous,
high,
inhabited islands.
mountains more than four thousand feet high.
The French have ordained several whole- with mural points.
and
his
The
island of Hivaoa is thirty miles long,
which
Laioha
islands,
for
the
are
is
the
station
of
among
laws
Hakatu
some
and
shape it is like the letter S. Its popin
here,
murder,
is
no
though
cannibalism, wife Ewa. There
harbor
those forbidding wars,
ulation
is supposed to be five thousand, or
sorcery, ice. On the leeward, or north-west vessels may anchor in good weather. The
more
that of all the other islands of the
than
INuuhiva,
laminated
and
Uais
marked
a
remarkable
Uapou
by
islands, embracing
landing
has some fifteen to twenty valleys
It
effeet
and
high
group.
lava cone some three hundred
huna, these laws are beginning to take
richness
and beauty, and its arable
fect. Criminals and offenders are sometimes about two hundred feet in diameter, rising of great
be
to yield half a million
made
might
lands
blue
deep
checks
from.the
like a great pyramid
called to account, and a salutary fear
and
other productions for
cotton,
coffee
in
monument
the violence and ferocity of the savages. On waves, and standing like a marble
commerce.
fires
past
Tahuata,
of
islands,
Hivaoa
and
to
commemorate
the
Plutonic
the windward
At Hanamenu we landed six Marquesans,
Fatuiva, or Christina, Dominica and Mag- ages. J. W. Laioha came on board in his
residents
of the valley, whom Mr. Bicknell
soon
on
the
shore.
boat,
two
we
latter,
on
the
the
own
and
were
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in 1865 took to Oahu for christianand intellectual training. Of these, three were baptized and received to the church at Ewa.
All appeared like sincere christians during
the voyage, and we bless the Lord that the
efforts of our Brother B. to lead them out of
darkness into the '■ light of life " nppear to
have been so successful; while we mourn
that about one-half the number who left the
Marquesas in 1865 were buried on Oahu and
in the deep. This great mortality was probably occasioned in part by change of climate,
of diet, nnd of habits of life. But man dies
everywhere.
On*landing with these six returned .Marquesans the whole valley was alive, and the
beach thronged with people. Fathers, mothers, grandmothers, brothers, sisters, all the
the exiles, came down to
"thekith and kin "(heofweeping,
wailirjg, rubbing
shore, and
of noses (kissing) and embracing were truly
affecting. Soon the breadfruit began to fall,
the pigs to squeal, and the ovens to smoke.
A feast was prepared with surprising rapidity, and it seemed joyful as at the return of
the " lost " and " dead " prodigal.
This valley is three miles deep, the population one hundred. Hero the ship Twilight
was wrecked, and here is the place where the
famous Mills, who went to England and the
United States in 1555 to obtain a missionary,
lived. We saw one of his forsaken children—
a poor blind heathen!
School Kviiiiiinntlon, rtr.

loba Honiae was once with Mr. Bicknell
on Oahu one year. He then returned a baptized christian to his native valley, where he
has taught school and kept up christian service on the Sabbath. He appears well, and
we think his influence has been for good
among his people. Among his scholars, five
read fairly in the Hawaiian Testament, and
fifteen in the Marquesan primer. We spent
the evening until very late, in examining, instructing and praying with candidates for
church communion, proposing fo organize a
church in the morning.
May 7.—Early this morning we organized
a christian church at Hanamenu, consisting
of ten members—seven males and three females. Of these, fout had been baptized by
Mr. Bicknell on Oahu, and six were new
Candidates. The Rev. J. Kekela, of Puamau,
was chosen pastor, and Daniel Taoefitu, deacon. After this the Lord's Supper was administered'for the first time in this place.
The s:ene was one of deep and tender interest.

land until Kekela, the resident
missionary, came on board, as the only safe
landing place had long been in the hands of
savage warriors, hostile to the friends of Kekela. After waiting a long time we discovered two sail-boats coming out of the bay—
one heading towards us, and the other steering west along the high shore of the island.
This soon disappeared, and we afterwards
not attempt to

learned that it was the last of a fleet of warboats and canoes returning from the war in
Puamau. The other boat contained Kekela,
who leaped on board with tears of joy, and
was surprised with delight on finding his
daughter, Maria Ogden, weeping on his neck.
Miss Kckcln is now seventeen years old, and
she has not seen her mother for fourteen
years, nor had she ever seen the valley where
her parents, sister and brother reside. The
meeting was affecting.
Kekela told us that the war had just closed;
that the last fighting was on the sth, the Sabbath previous lo our arrival ; that the lust
ally from other valleys returned on the morning of our arrival,-and that the people who
hud for months been hid in thickctsand rocks
and fortresses were beginning to crawl out of
their hiding places in the hills, and coiue
down to the shore. This was glad news,
and it seemed as Providential as joyful. The
door was opened for us among the heathen,
and we were invited to enter.
We went on shore with the Captain and
all the ladies. Landing near the French
Mission, we called on the priest who now occupies the station, and who very kindly offered his boat to Kekela to come on board the
Morning Star, Kekela being destitute of one
of his own. This priest speaks English, and
he once lived at Halawa on Oahu. We had
dispatches for him from his Bishop at Taiohae. He was very urbane and social, and
he received us with much cordiality. In
answer to the question how he enjoyed life
among these savages, he replied, " It is not
very agreeable." On leaving him he sent us
■ basket of large oranges and three loaves of
hot bread.
We walked one-fourth of a mile on the
beach, amidst a crowd of rude and garrulous
people, who almost frightened our ladies.
Many of them had just come out of war, and
there was a savage wildness, an impertinent
impudence and a ferocious license about them
which we had seen no where else. Natives
from other islands called them " wild bulls."
Their audacious disregard of order had been
probably enhanced by the late war. How
surely war develops the direst and most diabolical passions ofhuman nature. It makes
civilization savage, and savages infernal.
We found Naomi, Mrs. Kekela, well, and
overjoyed to meet her daughter, whom she
left in Oahu when only three years old. Kekela lives in a good house, built of stone,
twenty-two by forty-five feet, with attic and
cellar. It is the best house in the Mission,
and well adapted for a boarding-school.

At 9, A. M., Captain and Mrs. Bingham
came on shore, and at 11 we bade our six
fellow passengers from Hawaii, our ten christian brethren and sisters in Christ, and the
mixed multitude which gathered around, an
affectionate and sincere farewell, and returned to the packet. How faithfully this dear
vessel waits on our ministrations and administers to our wants.
From Nuuhiva to this place we have heard
War lo Pnanai.
rumors of n savage war at Puamau, and of a
plot at Omoa to destroy and rob our vessel,
This arose between two pagan clans occuon account of the death of nearly all who left pying opposite sides of the valley, or eastern
Fatuiva for Honolulu in 1865. Our trust is and western. In the progress of the long
in God.
struggle, the eastern clan, on the side occuPuamau, Wednesday, May B.—Early this pied by the French Catholic Mission, formed
Morning we were near this large and ro- an alliance with the tribes occupying four
mantic valley. We all felt solicitude. Kauvalleys lying west of Puamau, viz Hanahi,
wealoha and others advised that we should Motuua, Nahoc and Hunapaoa. The allies

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1867.

sent their

contingents of one hundred and
fifty warriors, armed with spears, clubs and
fire-arms. They all came in boats and warcanoes, and spread terror through the valley.
The old, the sick, the women and children
fled and hid in the forests and jungle, while
the young ond the veteran braves kept watch
day and night. Had the large force in the
eastern part of the valley been bold, they had
swept all before them in the western part.
But they are all cowards, never fighting in
rank or in the open field, but always in ambush, where each man conceals himself, and,
like a tiger, leaps privily upon his prey. Still
they succeed in killing, wounding and capturing about as many, in proportion to the
numbers engaged, as the nations of Europe
and America. Nor do they think themselves
more wicked than christians in thus fighting
one another. When the savages kill two, we
call it murder. When christian generals
slaughter two hundred thousand, we pronounce it glorious. Have we not all one
faiher? and will not one God judge all ?
lit'iiiii of Main.

On the Ist day of .May, just one week before our arrival, (he famous Mato, the chief
who seized and designed to eat Mr. Whalon,
was killed liy a bullet.
Thus his judgment
did not, slumber, We saw the place where
the poor trembling mute was seized and
bound, and those whose interposition, under
God, saved the agonizing captive.
The war has disarranged all things here.
We found no scliool.no church, and we were
informed that no one came to worship on the
Sabbath except Kekela's immediate attendants, or family friends and domestics. This
seemed sad and painful. Kekela is a good
Hawaiian scholar, an intelligent man, and a
man of energy of character and diversified
capabilities. But he seems to have become
discouraged. His hands hang down, and he
had even talked of returning lo Oahu. His
pigs have been stolen, his donkeys and mule
killed and eaten,one ofhis out-houses burned,
anil a nocturnal effort made to burn his large
stone house. This failed by Kckela's being
awakened by the snapping of a firelock and
the flash of light. He arose, and the incen-

diaries lied.
We took Kekela and wife, with their four
children, ant! returned to the Morning Star,
after having preached and exhorted among
the natives who collected at the house of the
missionary:
Atuona. Ilicnoa, May 9.—Atuona is the
station of Mr. Z. llapuku. It is a broad, deep
and luxuriant valley, and the surrounding
scenery is more grand and diversified, if possible, than any we have seen. The great
rampart of rocks in the rear is the highest
point of all the islands, and it is usually hung
with a cloudy drapery. Like other places
described, the lofty spiral centre, the sharp
lateral ribs, the broken hills, the columns,
spurs, pinnacles nnd cones—some stratified,
some laminated, some round, some angular,
some pointed, some truncated, some perpendicular, some leaning, some compact rock,
some vesicular, amorphous, crystalline—in
all shapes and positions : horizontal, tilted,
vertical—with heaps of scoria from the great
Plutonic furnace, all bearing the marks of
fire, and all revealing their igneous origin.
I cannot cease to gaze, and admire, and
wonder,and adore, as I look upon the massive

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piles of rock in every state, form and posi- by a son of Abraham Natua, and by several
tion—piled up, rock upon rock, hill upon hill, other friendly Omoans. All these assured
ridge upon ridge, mountain upon mountain, us that the danger of going on shore was
serried, castellated, turreted, lifting their past j that there had been much murmuring,
lofty points among the clouds, and holding disputing and threatening among the heathen
the drapery of heaven upon their pinnacles. party, but that the christian party, including
How did they rise out of the deep blue sea ? the friends of the dead, told them that they
and what power gave them these fantastic were unreasonable and wrong; thnt men died
forms ? They are masses of confused har- everywhere; that even in Omoa a bowel
mony, defying all the art of the limner, the complaint, dysentery, had just cut off many
pen and ink painter, and the descriptive pow- of their own number ; and, finally, that the
ers of man.
whole matter belonged alone to the relatives
As no one appeared on the shore at Atu- of the deceased, others having nothing to do
ona, we went into the bay in our boat, but with it. To this all assented, and so the uptin; surf being too strong to land, David, our roar ceased. The danger was passed. The
good Peruvian, leaped into the sea and swam Marquesan missionaries landed at evening.
ashore. Passing through a dense jungle of
Saturday, May 11.—Brother Parker and
hibiscus he found Hapuku, and sent him myself removed on shore this morning and
down to the beach. H. dove into the raging took lodgings in
of Rev. J. W. Kasurf like a porpoise, and soon came dripping iwi, the Morning SWr having anchored yesinto our boat. Not being able to land in this terday. By request of friends, the remains
bay, he took us into a lateral bay called Ha- of Joseph Tiiekai were brought on shore, and
kauku, one-quarter of a mile wide and three- at 4, P. M., the funeral was attended in a
quarters of a mile deep, where we run our christian manner at his house. Some of his
boat upon a beautiful sand beach at the foot friends wept and wailed inconsolubly, espeof a sweet valley three miles long, and full cially his sister. His wife, brother and
of people. Here we landed, and scrambling daughter were calm.
fours " up a precipitous cliff, and up, All last night and to-day there has been
"upona all
weary hill, we walked in a burning sun great wailing in the valley, and many people,
one mile, Mrs. B. and all, to the valley of especially women, have cut their faces with
Atuona.
sharp bamboo, and these are smeared with
Atuona is, perhaps, the richest valley we blood and perspiration.
Sabbath, May 12.—As the Omoa meetinghave seen. It is broad, deep, umbrageous
and luxuriant, and watered by an ample and house is dilapidated and leaky, we met in the
limpid stream that runs babbling through the house of Kaiwi at 9, A.JVI. About seventy
dale. It would seem as if all the surround- were present. We preached from Luke 2:10:
ing hills had been laid under tribute to en- "Behold I bring you good tidings of great
rich and adorn this valley, and as if Provi- joy, which shall be to all people." Brother
dence had shaken the lap of nature into it. Parker and Captain Bingham followed with
The trees are magnificent, and the shrubbery, remarks and exhortations. Mr. Zechariah
plants and vines run riot in luxuriance. Cot- Hapuku, of Atuona, was then ordained to the
ton plants grow there twelve feet high, and work of the ministry, having been examined
covered with the white staple. Our pathway ami unanimously npproved yesterday. Rev.
from the beach to Hapuku's house was an T. Coan offered the ordaining prayer; Key.
avenue cut through the hibiscus, the cotton B. W. Parker gave the charge, and Key. J.
and other plants, and impervious to the sun. Kekela gave the right hand of fellowship.
Nrbaol Examination.
At 2, P. M., the congregation reassembled,
Seventeen scholars and about fifty people when seventeen individuals were baptized
came out on s-hort notice, nnd we examined and added to the church on profession of rethe school in reading, arithmetic and geogra- pentance toward God and faith in the Lord
phy. The school was perfectly quiet and Jesus, and one was received by letter from
attentive, and it appeared well. Several of the church at Ewa. Two children were also
the scholars sang " Happy Land " and other baptized.
Of the old members of the church four are
hymns sweetly. We preached, then baptized
three, and three children—organized a church dead, and six still live. These, with the
of five, including Hapuku and wife, and re- eighteen added to-day, make a church of
turned to the ship, after three hours at the twenty-four members, and, including the pastorand his wife, of twenty-six—making thirty
station.
The large valley of Kaaoa lies three miles in all from the beginning.
After the admission of the above the Lord's
to the westward of Atuona, and with the
eastern one, where we landed, and Atuona, Supper was administered to about forty comembraces a population of more than one municants, representing seven different nathousand —nil accessible to the missionary. tionalities. The occasion was one of deep
Omoa, Fatuica. Friday, May 10.—At day- and tender interest. The aged Eve Hipalight we were not far from Omoa, but our hipa, not less than eighty years old, and quite
Marquesan missionaries deemed it not ad- decrepit, was brought in by her friends. She
visable to land until Kaiwi, the pastor of this clasped our hands, held them fast, placed
station, came on board, as we had repeatedly them on her silvery head, and welcomed us
heard that the people here were greatly ex- with much emotion. How we were reminded
asperated at the death of nearly all their of theaged Simeon in the templeat Jerusalem.
friends who went to Honolulu in 1865, nine The day closed in peace. It was a good day,
having died, while two only remained. As and not to be forgotten.
Monday, May 13.—The general meeting
the Mi/rning Star stood out a distance from
becalmed,
of
the Mission was organized on the 11th,
1,
it
was
P.
was
nearly
and
land
i's
boat
was
He
Rev. S. Kauwealoha moderator, and
alongside.
electing
M., before Kaiw
was attended by a chief, a brother of Joseph Rev. J. Kekela, scribe. On Monday the busiTiiekai, who had married Joseph's widow, ness of the meeting was taken up in earnest.

•

All the brethren read written and full accounts of their stations and labors for the last
two years. Some of these reports were
deeply interesting. Copies of them all were
taken for the use of the Hawaiian Board.
Rev. A. Kaukau, of Hanavave, reported :

- ...

611
9

Population of Hansvvave and Evacva,
Killed and wounded in war,

Rev. J. W. Kaiwi, of Omoa, reported :

Population,

.----.

Killed and wounded in war,

-

He is forbiddea to visit Hanavavc.
Kev. Z. Hapuku, of Atuona, reported

----------

.----Population,
Killed in war,
Kuten of cannibals,

GOO

16

: 700

10
7

Kev. J. Kekela, of Puamau, reported :
Population,

------------------....
-----

Killed and wounded in war,
Killed of allies,
Ktiten of c:innibiilx,
Number of allies wounded, not known.

700
10
2

Mr. J. W. Laioha, of Hakatu, Uahuna,
reported :
Population of valley,
Population of islaud,
Killed by robbers,

75
260
5

Itosrrllnc-Schoflls.

This subject engrossed much attention, and
it was resolved to establish at once a boarding-school for girls at Puamau, under the
care of the Key. J. Kekela and wife, and a
school for boys ot Hakahekau, or rather at
Hakanahi on Uapou, under the care of Rev.
S. Kauwealoha and wife. For the purpose
of carrying these resolutions promptly into
effect, the delegates placed two hundred dollars in the hands of the.appointed teachers.
It is hoped that the schools will be in a great
measure self-supporting. The brethren believe that with eight dollars per scholar a
year, they will be able to furnish cheap cotton garments, such as will induce boys and
girls to live with them and be instructed.
These brethren have houses ample to accommodate twelve or fifteen children each, and
food in their valleys is abundant. We therelore have high hopes that these schools will
soon be in operation. Should this hope be
realized, we feel sure that the benevolent
ladies and gentlemen of the Hawaiian Islands
will rejoice to contribute in cotton fabrics,
clothing, cash, Sec. —enough to clothe these
sons !<nd daughters of the Marquesas, and to
rescue them from the fearful darkness of
heathen cannibalism. I have rarely seen
more perfect specimens of physical organization, or brighterfaces and more active minds,
than among the Marquesan children. Many
of them are beautiful, in spite of their olive
complexion and sad surroundings, and it is
painful to leave them, bright and blithesome
as they arc, to the horrors that await them if
they are not soon redeemed from the deep
darkness which covers them.
Nchsal K.atsiaMlon at Ohm.

About forty scholars were present. Twenty
read in the Hawaiian Testament; thirty: two
answered questions in arithmetic and on the
map of the world, and nine sung pleasantly.
Many lessons, committed to memory, were
recited by the scholars, and one old and blind
woman recited the whole of the first chapter
of Matthew's gospel without a mistake.
After remarks by the delegates and by
Captain Bingham, the services closed by the
recitation of the Lord's Prayer in full chorus.
Kaiwi reports sixty-eight scholars and fifty-

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four readers for the whole valley. When I
was here in 1860, there were fifty-three scholars and thirty-eight readers. Kaiwi is sincere, earnest, patient, discrete and laborious,
and he accomplishes much by his persevering
efforts for this people.
Pipe.

some five miles, to Hanavave. The expedition was bold, and the escape marvellous.

Thursday, May 16.—This day opened with

the flash and rattle ofmusketry. The whole
valley was astir, and the surrounding cliffs
and lofty hills echoed with shouts and reverberated with the sound of arms. One discharge followed another from dawn till noon.
We were a little startled at first at the thought
that war might be at the door,but on inquiry,
we were informed that the firing was in
honor of Kauakamikihei, a celebrated prophetess, who had recently died. The heathen
party had built a house for the goddess
twenty-four feet long, twelve wide and fortyeight high. On the top of this house they
had placed a target, made of kapa, in the
form of a moon. At this target the men were
firing, and when one hjp it the valley rang
again with their triumphant shouts.

This man has rendered himself conspicuous as a spy, a robber and murderer. He
once came from Hanavave, the valley always
at war with Omoa, professed friendship for
tbe Omoans, made friends of Tiiekai and
Kaiwi, and lived on theirhospitality. After
two months he enticed two boys to go with
him to the hills for ohias (native apples.)
When out of sight he seized one boy and cut
off his head. The other fled and escaped,
reporting the tragedy in the village. Omoa
was enraged at the perfidious treachery, but
Pupe was out of their reach. He fled to
■mm
Hanavave, over the hills, and as soon as he
appesred upon the lofty precipice that walls As Key. A. Kaukau, who occupies this staHanavave on the south, he swung the bloody tion, is to retu/n to Hawaii in the Morning
trophy in the air and shouted in exultation Star, Captain Bingham and myself went in
our boats, to see the station and to bring up
to his friends below.
After six weeks this same Pupe returned his goods. The distance is about four miles,
to Omoa for another reprisal. He first ap- and the coast along which we rowed presents
peared at dead of night at the window of one of the grandest and most magnificent
Kaiwi's dormitory and demanded entrance. spectacles in nature. Rocky c!iffs,;jowering
Kaiwi demurred and refused to open the domes and lofty precipices, rent, grooved and
window. Pupe then opened it himself and fluted, everywhere charmed the eye. From
attempted to enter. Kaiwi resisting, Pupe these bold heights, of hundreds to two thoudrew a large sheath knife upon him, and en- sand feet, rills of pure water came gliding in
tered at the window. He then called for silvery lines, and leaping in feathery cascades
food, which was given him. Kaiwi then in- into the sea. Here and there, little cosey
quired his errand to Omoa. He replied that rocks and shaded dells opened along the
there was a great famine in his valley, and rocky shore. Small valleys filled with cocoathat his people had sent him to purchase food nuts, breadfruit, hibiscus and other trees, and
of Kaiwi. K. told him that he had a patch murmuring with living waters, appeared like
of potatoes on the hill towards Hanavave, and enchantment. But these are all desolate.
that he and his people might eat the potatoes Fierce, bloody war has slaughtered the tenon condition of replanting the ground. This ants, or driven them from these Edens of
concluded, Pupe asked for testimonials by beauty. The lofty and abrupt walls, spurs
which he could prove to the people of Hana- and headlands of the coast plunge abruptly
vave that he had communicated with Kaiwi. into the deep sea, and the interior rises, rock
K. gave him some books and six sea biscuits, upon rock, tower upon tower, ridge upon
when P. leaped out of the window and dis- ridge, in wild and fantastic forms, terminating
appeared in the darkness. To feel sure that in the castellated dividing ridge of the islhe had left, Kaiwi and his wife then went and, which seems to rest against the sky.
out of the back door to watelu They soon The entrance to Hanavave bay is almost overheard the rustle of his feet among the stones powering in grandeur and sublimity. Its
and leaves, and saw his dark form about to portals are the everlasting hills, and its senenter a house where the only inmates were tinels the towering rocks that frown upon
two old women. He was still thirsting for you like lofty minarets, or like the mural
blood and hunting for human heads. Kaiwi towers of a castle. We landed on a beach of
hid behind trees and threw stones near to sand and shingle, amidst a mixed throng of
Pupe, in order to frighten him off ahd to save men, women and children, as noisy as loons.
the unsuspecting women. The falling stones Brother Parker remained at Omoa,and Capstartled Pupe, and supposing himself discov- tain Bingham assisted me in speaking to the
ered, he fled to the north side of the valley people,and in exhorting them to forsake their
and over a water brook. Here was the house false gods and come to the Saviour. Haof the old' blind woman noticed in the exam, puku, who went with us, also spoke well to
ination. Her husband is a Mr. Hawkins, an the people, who listened respectfully. After
American, from Portsmouth, N. H., and now this I baptized a man and his wile by the
acting pilot at Omoa. Mr. Hawkins was en names of Job and Rebecca—the first fruits of
board a vessel that night, and his blind Wife Hanavave unto God. They appeared deciwas alone. Now, thought Pupe, a head for dedly well.
Hanavave is sure. He entered the house to
The Offering to kinsksmlkihci.
execute his infernal deed, when a large dog
Omoa, Friday, May 17.—Anotherrush and
seized him by the malo, and in his straggle roar of the heathen. Early this morning we
with the dog the woman escaped, and the were again startled by loud shouts coming
neighbors were aroused. Hearing the ap- down the valley. On looking out we saw a
proach of men, Pupe fled through the jungle, large company of tattooed savages carrying a
up the precipitous hills, and coming to the
peculiar canoe to the sea. This canoe was
potato patch of Kaiwi, dug a load, and re- covered with a broad
platform of bamboo, on
turned uncaught over the ridges and valleys, which was erected a small
round house, cov-

ered with mats, in the canoe there were ■
live pig, a dog and a cock, together with poi,
breadfruit, cocoanats, Arc. The canoe was
ornamented with trappings, and rigged with
a mast and sprit, and a sail of kapa. With
much noisy demonstration it was launched
and pushed out through a roaring surf, by
naked swimmers, into the open sea. Here
the swimmers left it and returned to the
shore. The canoe, without pilot, drifted
slowly out ai the buy; but the wind not favoring, it struck on the northern headland of the
harbor—advancing to therocks and receding
by the rush and retreat of the surf like a rani.
Seeing the peril, a native ran to the point
and shoved off the struggling craft, when it
sailed out to sea and disappeared.
I had a long talk with Teiiheitofe, a high
chief, about the canoe. He said it was a last
offering to their god on the death of the sorceress, or prophetess ; and that this sacrifice
propitiated the god, expiated their sins and
closed the koina, or tabu, which had then
lasted six weeks. During this koina, "all
servile work and vain recreations are by law
(of the pagans) forbidden."
At 3, P. M , we bade farewell to our friends
and the multitude and returned to the Morning Star, to sail for Hivaoa.
Puamau, Sabbath, May 19.—Wearc again
at this place, having returned here to land
Kekela and family. Brother Parker, the native missionaries and myself came on shore
to hold service. More than a hundred people collected under the trees in front of Kekela's house, to whom we preached the "gospel of thekingdom." Many came with spears,
war clubs, whaling spades, harpoons, sharksspears, axes, muskets, bayonets fixed on poles,
long knives, flint, steel, tobacco pouch, pipes,
ice., and during service, little circles of three,
five or ten would strike fire, light their pipes,
have a delicious smoke, and then listen again
to the speaker. Some had the head shaven
all over; some in zones and belts—vertical
or horizontal. Some on one side, some on
the other; some with a tuflfof hair on the
crown, some on the forehead, some on the
occiput, and some hanging over the right or
the left ear. And thus it was with the tattooing. The wildest taste and the most fantastic and capricious figures were displayed
upon the face, arms, lower limbs, and over
the whole body. This tattooing makes the
males look dark and fearful. Children are
not tattooed; females butlittle. Consequently
they often look like anotherand a milder race

of beings.

Before service we had long talks with individuals and clusters of natives. Some were
attentive nnd solx-r. One old warrior, Meakaiahu, with head closely shaven and heavily tattooed, held quite a debate with me.
He said that we should hute our enemies,
and kill those who would kill us. When I
urged the doctrine and example of Christ, he
shook his head and said, What if I love my
enemy and he shoot me "t " When I illustrated and urged the reciprocal law of love,
how it begets love and vice versa, he felt the
truth and began to yield. He then said that
he had killed five men, and had a bullet in
his own body which entered close to the
spinal column, but he would listen tome and
fight no more. Immediately he requested
me to talk with his chief. In doing this, he
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face from under a great leaf which screened
his eyes, and said with emphasis, " Kaoha
Love to thee." He took me to his
M "
chief, a tall old man named Moahau, and he
watched our conversation with eager interest.
The old man was friendly, but witty and
skeptical. He brought up quibbles and objections, one of which was that he was too
old to attend to the new doctrines. "Let
the children," said he, "go with the missionaries ; it is too late for us old folks." When

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We arrived at Hakatu on Tuesday morn- desolated the island, so that, while he has
ing, May 21. Kauwealoha and I went on labored abundantly and been a helper of
shore with Laioha. Laioha called the peo- many*, he has no church under his care on
ple together for service. Several candidates Uapou. We hope be may be prospered in a
for church membership were presented, ex- boarding-school.
amined, approved and baptized—eight in all.
Having landed Kauwealoha, Cant. BingOne of these was Mr. T. C. Lawson, who ham called all hands aft, spoke of the mercy
with tender emphasis confessed himself a of God in thus bringing our work at the i
poor miserable sinner, whose only hope was islands to a happy close, and proposed prayer
in the Lord Jesus. He seemed deeply sin- and thanksgiving. This offered, we sung
cere, and was received with the Marquesan the stanza, "Waft, waft," ice., followed by
converts, when fourteen of us sat down to the three hearty cheers; when our sails were
table of our Lord. Key. S. Kauwealoha was trimmed and the noble Morning Star turned
chosen pastor of this new church of ten mem- her prow towards the Hawaiian Islands.
bers, including Laioha and his wife.
God speed the Morning Star
After service we bade adieu to the mission
On thy Heaven-directed way ;
Bear to the Islands near and far
family, the little church, and the interested
The Light of rißing day.
throng, and Kauwealoha, with one Hawaiian
oarsman and myself, jumped into the gig,
Our vessel seems to feel the inspiration of
taking Mr. Lawson and wife with us, and heaven, and, like a fleet steed homeward
rowed westward along the rock-bound and bound," she makes through the water at the
interesting shore to Vaipaee, the residence of rate of ten knots, dashing the white foam
Lawson, Johnson, Nagle and one or two from her head and sides.

told that Jesus died for all, had prepared
mansions for all, called all, even the old, the
sick, weak, poor, the polluted and bloodstained ; that He pardoned, sanctified, comforted and glorified; that in heaven, bullets,
and bayonets, and knives, and barbed spears
and fire could not hurt the redeemed ; that
there was no war, or hunger, or thirst, or
sickness, or pain or death in that place, he
"
exclaimed, " That will be a good place for
afraid
to
cowards and lazy folks who are
fight and too lazy to climb breadfruit and
We headed northward at 45 minutes past
cocoanut trees.'! The shrewd wit of the old other foreigners.
o'clock we were sailing
chieftain excited a laugh in the whole circle. Vaipaee is a cosey little harbor,about half 7 A. M., and at 10$
close
under the western
water,
a
between
two
smooth
lofty
in
and
to
the
mile
deep,
opening
order
returned
But we soon had
headlands,
and
a
This
psrt of the island
the
terminated
beach
shores
of
Nuuhiva.
by
delfty
subject. At length he yielded, and, with
which a lim- is beautifully verdant—the slopes are gentle
on
east
side
of
sand,
said
he
of
fine
the
who
sat
would
watching,
old soldier
listen to the gospel, and forsake heathenism. pid stream flows into the bay. In the upper and the land good for tillage and grazing.
He was serious, tender and earnest. These parts of this valley there is a large populaTbe Morning Star
two took seats together in meeting, and lis- tion, and here our friend David, the Peruvian,
modeled, well built,
vessel—well
Is
a
noble
has
to
labor
for
souls
without
pecuresolved
tened with fixed and unabated interest to the
furnished and well appointwell
reward.
well
rigged,
God's
niary
was
spiritualThe
subject
preaching.
light,
Returning to the Morning Star, we laid ed. The cabin is a model one—large,
ity, and the spiritual and true worship He
seen
a
never
more
neat
hove
I
about
south
and
airy.
our course for Uapou,
forty miles
requires of man.
one in a vessel
convenient
comfortable
and
to
Kauwewest,
out
land
our
last
by
missionary,
of
these
chiefs
spoke
At the close, both
The staterooms are spacious
and urged us to go on. " Why should we," aloha. We came up with the island in the of her class.
term), clean, well kept and
comparative
it
to
the
in
being
(a
but
difficult
land
are
not
evening,
?
weary.
home
We
say they, "go
ventilated.
All the other arwhen,
and
on
until
after
day,
thoroughly
time
we
off
night,
lay
and talk
We wish to remain a long
with the above.
are
keeping
in
we
landed rangements
with you. We cannot go now." This spon- prayers and an affecting farewell,
her helm, and is
minds
well,
sails
son,
Samuel
The
vessel
the
Kauwealoha
and
his
adopted
reciprocated
by
nearly
taneous gust was
she is the
Altogether,
stays.
sure
in
Hakanahi,
at
the
May
22.
whole assembly. They would not move, but Kekela,
comfortable
vessel
of her
most
Kauwealoha is a man of great energy and neatest and
on all sides handsJ>eckoned and voices called,
ever
sailed.
with
have
in
I
intellectual,
both
size
which
this
and
activity,
physical
me. Come
way
«' Come here, talk with
Tbe Captalt,
and talk with us." The interest was mar- a great and generous heart He labors with
vellous. We felt that the Lord was there, zeal, and is ready to put head, heart, hond Rev. H. Bingham, Jr., has shown himself
which will help
and we conversed with circles and individ- and shoulder to any work
and faithful. His reckonings have
cause
or
the
of Christ. His competent
was
much
others
advance
near
sundown.
Kekela
uals until
correct,
been
and his care and dilligence in
encouraged, and in the evening he brought talents are versatile, and their application is making passages and in looking after the
forward, for admission to the church, seven miscellaneous. He can work in wood, iron, Packet when among islands and in places of
candidates in whose piety he had long had stone and mortar; can build a good house; danger, have been unremitting. AD our inconfidence. They were all examined care- construct, rig, row, skull, and sail a boat, or tercourse with him hat, been courteous,
fully and baptized. After which we ate the act as pilot in all the harbors of the group. Christian and highly satisfactory.
Lord's Supper with joy and tenderness. He will work bare-headed and bare-footed,
Mrs. Bingham
Three had been baptized here before—two in and he can swim and dive in the surf like a
is
intelligent,
picking
up
is
He
of light to the vessel.
porpoise.
quite
angel
1860and one in 1862. There now a church
Has been as an
of ten members at Puamau, and, including the most of the current news of the age. He Always hopeful, always cheerful, refined and
tolerably, and man- intelligent, and ever caring for the interests
pastor and his wife, of twelve. Isaac Tomo, speaks and reads English
all on
who was baptized in 1860, was full of joy. ages to get most of the facts from English of the vessel, and for the comfort of
He spoke feelingly, and the light of heaven papers that come into his hands. He is earn- board, her presence has added greatly to
est in prayer, energetic in preaching, and the comforts of the voyage. She has also
shined through his tattooed face.
Monday, May 20.—We hear that a savage firm in his principles. His mind is of the been earnest, resolute and patient in going
surf, in
gang, from the eastern side of Puamau, came leading order, and foreigners and natives re- on shore through seas and foaminglaboring
down to our boat while she was for a short spect him. He has done much good at the climbing hills and precipices, and in
in
time on the beach yesterday, and proposed islands, though this might not appear to one over shppety stones and jagged rocks,
to seize her. Numbers of friendly natives unacquainted with all the facts in his mis- order to meet and comfort our lone Missionheathen.
and the boat's crew being near they refrained sionary life. Many of the fruits of his labors ary sisters and to converse with the
some
and
have
have
Captain
spared
to
the
are
over
nor
the
and
the
boat
returned
scattered
the
she
group,
Neither
from violence,
Morning Star, which lay off and on. These been gathered by others. Some eight to any efforts to do good among the people, and
ruffians are of the tribe who seized Mr. Wha- twelve ot the converts under his ministry to aid the delegates, in their work.
have been received to other churches. He
lon.
The Mem and Crew
Kekela's supplies were sent on shore this labored several years at Omoa, then at Hana- Have treated us with uniform kindness, ahd
morning, and at 11, A. M., we bade farewell tetuua, where he built an excellent stone
things we have been blessed, greatly
to Kekela and family, and to our friends at house and gathered disciples. War and ruin in all
blessed,
to
of our Divine Lord and Master, and
Puamau, and sailed for Uahuna, to return J. drove him from this valley, and he retired
be
all glory and praise forever.
to
Him
followed
and.
small-pox
Here
the
Uapou.
W. Laioha to his station.

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Statistics of Ilinn In-.
Vhole number received at Oruoa,
Vhole number received at Hanavave,
Vliole numlier received at Atuona,
l/hole number reoeived at Puamau,
i'hole numberreceived at liauamenu,
Hiole number receiveditt Hauahi,
fhule number received at Hakatu,

FRIEND,

JULY, 1867.

to the Lord ;" that " all nations shall serve
Him;" that "the wolf shall lie down with
the lamb," and that Nothing shall be left
to hurt or destroy," because " the darkness
shall flee away," and " The whole earth
shall be filled with the knowledge ol the
Lord," and "all flesh shall see His salvation."

Proilur lions,

I do not propose to speak, as I have already
dispensed remarks on this subject in the
body of this narrative. Suflice it to sny,
that all the flora, trees, shrubs, plants, vegetables, fruits, See., of the tropics may be
produced here in abundance and perfection.
But what interests us more than the oriAddenda—Origin of the Marqnesxs Islands.
02
the discovery and the natural history of
gin,
0
ihole number deceasetl,
is most evidently igneous. Never the group, is the
This
48
Hiole number rcceiveil by delegates in 1807,
67 were the murks of volcanic agency more disXUnits to Evangelize the Islands.
low living,
tinct than in this group. From the hold
These
efforts were commenced in 1797—
Enron rnccinriil.
shores to the loftiest peaks of the mountains,
seventy
just
years ago—when the English
the
most
among
are
The Marquesans
every boulder and rock, every spur and ridge,
fierce, independent nnd savage tribes of men. every cone and needle and pinnacle bears ship Duff took Messrs. Crook and Harris to
They have no settled and acknowledged the Plutonic mark. Even the sand nnd the Marquesas as Missionaries. Mr. Harris,
in the stnne
form of government. Everyman is a lord shingle and cobble of the beaches, as wHI as through fear or disgust, returned
and sovereign in his own eyes. His own the basaltic columns, the heap of scorifonn ship to Tahiti, Mr. Crook resided on Tucapricious will is his only law, and when his mutter, the vitrefactions and the masses of hiiata about six months. He then went to
where he labored six months more,
passions are up, nnd lust or vengeance burn conglomerates, testify of their fiery origin. Nuuhiva, returned
to England, Imping to rewithin, he little regards the views of others, For nges long past sub-marine volcanic anil then
the
islands
with
rcinforcccments. He
lurn
to
of
his
conduct.
or looks to the consequences
forces lifted the everlasting rocks from their
He sends lead or steel to the heart of the one deep-sea beds, and, by successive throes, returned :it length and joined the Missionahe hates, and no hand stays him. No one brought them to the surface of the ocean, aries at Tahiti.
In 1821," two Tahitian converts were sent
reproves. All around him stand aloof and and the same unmeasured dynamics raised
allow his burning vengeance to take elect their lofty piles—heaps on heaps, ridgo on to the Marquesas, but they returned. In
1525, Mr. Crook revisited the group, leavon its object.
ridge, tower on lower —until their grand
two Society Islanders at Tahuata. These
And thus it is with clans. It is difficult domes and high peaks pierce the clouds, ing
soon returned, ami were succeeded by others
live
in
of
different
to
valleys
for the people
standing as everlasting monument* of the who remained hut a short time. In 1831,
peace. Causes of contention, real or imagin- power that raised them.
Mr. Darling, of Tahiti, visited the group and
ary, are constantly arising nnd provoking
The islands rise so abruplly from the loft
native teachers at Futuivn and Tahuata,
deadly hostilities. Every aggression arouses "deep blue sea," that the little polypean
retaliation, and thus the law of vengeance workers have found il hard to lintl places on but these, like their predecessors, roou rewithout success. In 1N33, Messrs.
reigns and descends from sire to son, from which to build, consequently then/ is a very turned
generation to generation. A ridge of rocks limited amount of coral on the islands. In Armstrong, Alexander and Parker, Mission—a mountain spur interposing -make per- places where the conditions favor, as in still aries of the A. B. C. F. M. at the Sandwich
Islands, with their wives, removed to Port
petual enemies.
and shoal water, coral is found.
Anna Maria, or Taiohae, Nunhivn, where
The tabu system is the only law which
Po-ition, Kiscovery, Kr,
they spent eight months in efforts to tame
influences them, and the wild sorcerer the
inhabited
islands are six in numlier, •mil Christianize these brutal savages. They
The
only power they fear. By these diabolical with as
many more small islets, not inhabit- also returned to Hawaii.
enchantments they are bound as in " ada- ed. They
lie in a northwest and southeast lii 1834, Messrs. Stnllwortliy and Rodgermantine chains."
latitude 7° 50* and 10° son, the latter with a wife, arrived from
It is, therefore, hard to approach them direction, between
and
longitude
south,
138° 39'and 1-10° England, ami, in company with Mr. Darling,
31'
interests,
their
feelwith the (Jospel. All
west.
of Tahiti, commenced labors at Tahuata,
40'
ings, tastes, reasonings, associations ami
was discovered July In a year Mr. Darling returned to Tahiti.
southeast
group
The
life
it.
the
heart
and
lapel
All
habits of
Alvnro Mendann, who was In 1537, Mr. ami Mrs. Hodgereon sailed lor
teachings of their progenitors and. prophets 21, 1695, by Mr.
with four vessels Tahiti, and Mr. Stall worthy remained unare exactly opposite to the pure anil unself- sent out from I'aiti, Peru,
dc Cmiete, til August, IS.'!!), when he was joined by llie
Marquis
men,
the
are
nnd
378
by
being
ish love of Christ. And yet they
and
execution
of an Key. li. Thompson. At length both these
in
P»ru,
of
Viceroy
approached. As light and warmth net siof
11.
Spain.
from
order
Missionaries left the islands, and the LonKing
Philip
of
the
most
as
many
lently but surely—and
afenuana discovered but four islands, viz: don Missionary Society abandoned the field.
potent laws of the physical universe are unLa DominIn August, 1838, this French Admiral l)u
seen and noiselesji—so the light and love Santa Magdalena, or Fatuiva;
Christina,
or
Taica,
Hivaoa;
Thouars, in the frigate Venus, brought
or
Santa
Petit
of
the
are
Gospel
and gravitating power
San Pedro, or Mohotani. Hood's two Koinan Catholic priests and one layimin
moving and permeating the dead masses of huata ; and Fatnuu,
is a bold rock, fifteen to Tahuata. In February, 1839, these were
the Marquesans. Scores already appear as Island, or of Hivaoa.
It was discovered by followed by six more priests and one layman.
miles
north
true disciples of Jesus. Scores can read the
In May, 1842, Admiral Dv Petit Thouars
in
Cook
1774.
God,
and
it
is
a
power
the
living
word of
The northwest group was discovered in took forcible possession of the islands, and
within them. Hundreds have forsaken the 1791
by Captain Ingraham, in the Hope, of French priests have occupied them, at sevtabus, and hundreds more hold them lightly.
the eral points, ever since. They now have one
Captain J. Roberts gave
Boston.
teachings
and
their
Consistent Missionaries
1793.
The
in
of
Islands
Washington
name
bishop, who. resides at Taiohae, seven priests,
are respected. Their lives and persons are
are three sisters, ami two laymen. Hut with long
sacred, where human life is no more rojrardcd inhabited islands of the northwest group
Nuuhiva or Marchand ; Uapou, or Adams; and ardent struggles, their success is small.
than that of a dog. They go secure where and
Uahuna, or Washington, tot'Pther with
In 1553, and in answer to a direct call
others dare not go. They lenve houses,
islets.
a Marquesan chief, Matonui, the- Haor
four
small
from
three
fear
nnd savages
wives and children without
waiian Missionary Society sent out four
Climate.
protect them. Everywhere we soe evidences
of the silent and sure progress of truth, and
This is extremely mild. The air is soft, native Missionaries to Fntuiva, and subsesent five more
we rest assured that the time to favor the balmy and bland. The valley glades, the quently the Hawaiian Hoard
Key. J. Bicknell, who
dark Marquesans has come. Many take trees and shrubbery afford constant protec- Hawaiians, besides the
several yenrs on the group. One
pleasure even in the stones and dust of that tion from the tropical sun, while the cooling has labored
this number have returned to Hawaii,
land of howling savages and echoing hills. breezes from the sea seem to percolate half offive,
with their wives, remain at their
Faith and patience, embalmed with love, through the dense foliage of the arborescent while
of
toil. Their success has
self-denying
posts
and filled with An unction for the Holy and dendrolite forests.
One," will " inherit the promises " made to Severe storms are rare and hurricanes are been encouraging, as this journal shows, and
Jesus, that " He shall see of the travail of unknown at the islands. Few climates in we trust, under God, that these naked and
His soul and be satisfied;" " that all the the world are so mild, so equable and so fierce savages will yet sit at the feet of
Jesus, " clothed and in their right minds."
ends of the earth shajl remember and turn nearly perfect. Of the
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