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Whal Causes Ihe Mildness of our Climate?
An KnKlishwnmnn on Hawaii
F.dilor's Table
I.elter from Japan
Kaploliuil, a Fnnii
Tne i»o greal Pom ol n.lia
Murder of Commodore Goodcnounh
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THE FRIEND.
OCTOBER

the North Pacific
comes nearer the surface than it does in the
Southern Ocean, even in higher latitudes,
and this, modifying still further the reflux
surface flow towards the Equator, would
appear to account for the well-known moderation of the Sandwich Islands climate,
though they lie within the tropic of Cancer.
In rending this paper of Dr. Carpenter,
and noting the amount of information derived from the cruises of the U.S. S. Titscontra and H. B. M. S. Challenger, we
could not but deplore the fact that more of
our national vessels in times of pe.ice were
not employed in scientific cruises. How
much better for officers and men to be employed in the cause of science, than in merely making passages from port to port, or
lying idle for months in foreign ports.
current when it reaches

CONTENTS

1. 1S7").

What Causes the Mildness of Our Climate?
Dr. Carpenter read an interesiing paper
More the Royal Geographical Society in
London June 2Sth, which is reported in the
August number of the Geographical Magazine. This paper was based upon the observations taken by the Challenger and
Tuse.arora. Among the conclusions drawn
from these observations, Dr. Carpenter advances the theory, that the mildness of our
climate on the Sandwich Islands is owing not
so much to "currents" in the atmosphere as
to " currents "in the ocean. He argues that
the glacial current from the south pole is
vastly operative in the North Pacific !

We copy as follows from Dr. Carpenter's
report:
The observations taken along the northern
fine nppear to point out that in the North
Pacific there is the general want of that sub-

surface stratum of above 40 ° F., which in
the North Atlantic under the same or yet
higher parallels has a thickness of at least
600 fathoms. The true cause of this peculiarity is that the North Pacific derives its
deep stratum of glacial water, which nearly
fills its basin, from the Polar area of the opposite hemisphere, the inlet at Behring's
Straits being too narrow and too shallow to
admit a flow of water of any appreciable importance. This northward flow of water
from the Equator must have as its complement a movement of the superficial stratum
from the northermost limit of this flow
ttnrarth the Southern Pole. The alacial

We take much pleasure in copying
from the London leisure Hour a beautiful
poem, suggested by a remarkable incident in
Hawaiian history nnd the life of the chiefess
Kapiolani. This incident is one which is
well calculated to give inspiration to the
poet. Some years ago we published a similar poem upon the same theme, written by
an English clergyman, the Rtyr. Robert
Grant, 8.C.L., fellow of Winchester College,
&c. See Friend for August, 1866. Lord
Byron, (cousin of the poet) when he visited
the islands, becoming acquainted with the
facts, thus comments upon the same event
as one of the greatest acts of moral courage which lias perhaps ever been performed ;
and the actor was a woman and, wo are
pleased to call her, a savage." See history
of the " Blonde."

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Bethel Flag.—We would acknowledge
the donation of a new Bethel Hag from the
"sail loft" of J. M. Oat & Co. Many
thanks.

In our last issue several typographical
errors appeared in the letter of the Rev. Dr.
Boyd, which we sincerely regret.

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{©ft Scries, 0«1. 32.

AN ENGLISHWOMAN ON HAWAII.
Some months ago we copied some extracts
from Miss Bird's book, but on giving the
volume a second reading, we meet scores of
paragraphs and passages which we should
be glad" to republish in our columns. It is a
book of genius; it is a prose-poem. Some
of her descriptions of mountain and "valley
scenery are exquisitely beautiful and truthful.
She revels in the beauties of wild nature.
English naval officers (us we happen to
know) sitting around their mess-table and
touching their champagne glasses, may smile
at what they style Miss Bird's descriptions
as good specimens of " gush " in literature,
but until they explore our mountains and
valleys on horseback, and aftei a hard day's
ride of forty miles over the rough and rugged
lava roads of Hawaii, can sit down in a
native hut hy the dim light of an old lamp,
and write such letters ns this volume contains, we think 'these critics may modestly
withhold their supercilious comments.
Miss Bird came to the islands an invalid,
and totally ignorant of what they contained.
She came, too, with perhaps a tinge of prejudice, and at first thought of spending only a
month, making merely a rapid trip to the
crater of Kilauea; but how changed her
plans, when with.the eye of a poet, a naturalist and a scientist, she began her explorations. For months she roamed over the
islands, and this volume of letters to her
sister in England, are the "jottings " which
she noted from day to day. They partake
of the sweet perfume of the fields and the
woods, the valleys and the mountains. We
regret that our book-sellers are so tardy in
placing the volume upon their counters. A
few copies were received by the last steamer,
and ore for sale at Thrum's, and we learn
that Whitney expects some by the next
arrival from San Francisco. When we first
glanced over this book, we were so much
pleased with its contents that we ordered
from London, by mail, three copies to be

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forwarded to friends in the United States,
and the remaining copy now lies before us.
Our limits only allow us to copy a few
paragraphs relating to. her second trip to
Hawaii and her ascent of Mauna Kea. But
few foreign ladies can pride themselves upon
having ascended this rugged and steep

mountain:

I delight in Hawaii more than ever, with
its unconveniential life, great upland sweeps,
unexplored forests, riotous breezes, and general atmosphere of freedom, airiness, and expansion. As I find that a lady can travel
nlone with perfect safety, I have many projects in view, but whatever 1 do or plan to
do, I find my eyes always turning to the
light on the top of Mauna Loa I know
that the ascent is not feasible for me, and
that so far as I am concerned the mystery
must remain unsolved; but that glory, nearly
14,000 feet aloft, rising, falling, "a pillar of
cloud by day nnd a pillar of fire by night,"
uplifted in its awful loneliness above all
human interests, has an intolerable fascination. As the twilight deepens, the light
intensifies, and often as I watch it in the
night, it seems to flare up and take the form
of a fiery palm-tree. No one has ascended
the mountain since the activity began a
month ago; but the fire is believed to be in

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loneliest, saddest, dreariest expanse I ever
saw.
The aii was clear and the sun bright, yet
•othing softened into beauty this formless
desert of volcanic, sand, stones, and lava, on
which tufts of grass and a harsh scrub war
with wind and drought for a loveless existence. Yet, such is the effect of atmosphere,
that Mauna Loa, utterly destitute of vegetation, nnd with his sides scored and stained
by the black lava-flows of ages, looked like
a sapphire streaked with lapis lazuli. Nearly
blinded by scuds of sand, we rode for hours
through the volcanic wilderness; always.the
same rigid ntamane, (Sophora Chrysophylla ?) the same withered grass, and the
same thornless thistles, through which the
strong wind swept a desolate screech.
The trail, which dips 1,000 feet, again
ascends, the country becomes very wild,
there are ancient craters of great height
densely wooded, wooded ravines, the great
bulk of Mauna Kea with his ragged crest
towers above tumbled rocky regions, which
look as if nature, disgusted with her work,
had broken it to pieces in a passion; there
are living and dead trees, a steep elevation,
and below, a broad river of most jagged and
uneven a-a. The afternoon fog, which
serves instead of rain, rolled up in dense
masses, through which we heard the plaintive bleating of sheep, and among blasted
trees and distorted rocks we came upon

old traditional crater of Mokuaweoweo,
"inthe
Kalaieha.
a region rarely visited by man."

A few dnys ago 1 was so fortunate as to
make the acquaintance of Mr. W. L. Green
(now Minister of the Interior), an English
resident in Honolulu, a gentleman of wide
scientific and literary culture, one of whose
objects in visiting Hawaii is the investigation of certain volcanic phenomena. He
asked me to make the ascent of Mauna Kea
with him, and we have satisfactorily accom-

plished it to-day.
The interior of the island, in which we
have spent the last two days, is totally different, not only from the luxuriant windward
slopes, but from the fiery leeward margin.
The altitude of the central plateau is from
5,000 to 6,000 feet, there is not a single
native dwelling on it, or even a trail across
it, it is totally destitute of water, and sustains only a miserable scrub of matnane,
stunted ohias, pukeawe, ohelos, a few composite, and some of the hardiest ferns. The
transient residents of this sheep station, and
those of another on Hualalai, thirty miles
off, are the only human inhabitants of a
region as large as Kent. ' Wild goats, wild
geese (Berniclo. sar.dvicensis), and the Melithreptcs Pacifica, constitute its chief population. These geese are web-footed, though
water does not exist. They build their
nests in the grass, and lay two or three
white eggs.
Our track from Waimea lay for the first
few miles over light soil, destitute of any
vegetation, across dry glaring rocky beds of
streams, and round the bases of numerous
tufa cones, from 200 to 1,600 feet in height,
with steep smooth sides, composed of a very
red ash. We crossed a flank of Mauna Kea.
at a height of 6,000 feet, and a short descent
brought us out upon this vast table land,
which lies between the bulbous domes of
Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai, the

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Mauna Kea, and the forests which skirt
his base are the resort of thousands of wild
cattle, and there are many men nearly ns
wild, who live half savage lives in the woods,
gaining their living by lassoing and shooting
these animals for their skins. Wild black
swine also abound.
The mist as usual disappeared at night,
leaving a sky wonderful with stars, which
burned blue and pale against the furnace
glare on the top of Mauna Loa, to which we
are comparatively near. I woke at three
from the hopeless cold, and before five went
out with Mr. Green to explore the adjacent
lava. The atmosphere was perfectly pure,
and suflused with rose-color, not a cloudfleece hung round the mountain tops, hoarfrost whitened the ground, the pure white
smoke of the volcano rose into the reddening
sky, and the air was elixir. It has been said
and written that there are no steam-cracks
or similar traces of volcanic action on Mauna
Kea, but in several fissures I noticed ferns
growing belonging to an altitude 4,000 feet
lower, and on putting my arm down, found a
heat which compelled me to withdraw it,
and as the sun rose these cracks steamed in
all directions. There are caves full of ferns,
lava bubbles in reality, crust over crust, each
from twelve to eighteen inches thick, rolls of
lava cooled in coils, and hideous a-a streams
on which it is impossible to walk two yards
without the risk of breaking one's limbs or
cutting one's boots to pieces.
After riding steadily for six hours, our
horses, snorting and panting, and plunging
up to their knees in fine volcanic ash, and
halting, trembling and exhausted, every few
feet, carried us up the great tufa cone which
crowns the summit of this vast fire-flushed,
fire-created mountain, nnd we dismounted in

deep snow on the crest of the highest peak
in the Pacific, 13,953 feet above the sea.
This summit is a group of six red tufa cones,
with very little apparent difference in their
altitude, and with deep valleys filled with
red ash between them. The terminal cone
on which we were has no cavity, but most
of those forming the group, ns well as the
thirty which I counted around and below us,
ure truncated cones with craters within, and
with outer slopes, whose estimated angle is
about 30 ° On these slopes the snow lay
heavily. In coming up we had had a superb
view of Mauna Loa, but before we reached
the top, the clouds had congregated, and lay
in glistening masses all round the mountain
about half-way up, shutting out the smiling
earth, and leaving us alone with the view of
the sublime desolation of the volcano.
We only remained an hour on the top,
and came down by a very circuitous route,
which took us round numerous cones, nnd

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over miles of clinkers varying in size from a

ton to a few ounces, and past a lake the

edges of which were frozen, and which in
itself is a curiousity, as no other part of the
mountain "holds water." Not far off is a
cave, a lava-bubble, in which the natives
used to live when they came up here to
quarry a very hard adjacent phonolite for
their axes and other tools. While the others
poked about, 1 was glad to make it a refuge
from the piercing wind. Hundreds of unfinished axes lie round the cave entrance,
and there is quite a large mound of unfinished chips.
This isa very interesting spot to Hawaiian
antiquaries. They argue, from the amount
of the chippings, that this mass of phonolite
was quarried for ages by countless generations of men, and that the mountain top
must have been upheaved, and the island
inhabited, in a very remote past. The stones
have not been worked since Captain Cook's
day; yet there is not a weather-stain upon
them, nnd the air is so dry and ratified that
meat will keep fresh for three months. 1
found a mass of crystals of the greenish
volcanic glass, called olivine, imbedded in a
piece of phonolite which looked as blue and
fresh as if only quarried yesterday.
We traveled for miles through ashes nnd
scoria;, and then descended into a dense
afternoon fog; but Mr. S. is a practiced
mountaineer, and never faltered for a moment, and our horses made such good speed
that late in the afternoon we were able to
warm ourselves by a gallop, which brought
us in here ravenous for supper before dark,
having ridden for thirteen hours. I hope 1
have made it clear that the top of this dead
volcano, whether cones or ravines, is deep
soft ashes and sand.
To-morrow morning I intend to ride the
thirty miles to Waimea with two native
women, and the next day to go off on my
adventurous expedition to Hilo, for which I
have bought for 846 a big, strong, heavy
horse, which I have named Kahele. He has
the poking head and unmistakable gait of a
bullock horse, but is said to be "a good

traveler."

A disposition to do good, and go forward
in duty, at any sacrifice, in the face of any
obstacle, is the best evidence of grace in the

heart.

THE FRIEND, OCTOBER,
EDITOR'S TABLE.
Tub Hawaiian Guide Book fob Teavklees, containing a brief description of the Hawaiian lelauda,
Ibeir Harbors, Agricultural Kcsouicch, Plniii.itiom, Scenery, Voloanoca, Climate, Population,
mill Commerce. First edition. Published by 11.
M. Whitney, Honolulu, 11. I , 1875.

We take special interest in calling attention to this book of 144 pages. It is " multum in parvo." We only wonder something
of the kind has not previously been issued,
and only shows that we move rather slowly
at the Sandwich Islands. The author of
this little book is really a " live " man so
far as types are concerned, and it seems
strange that he has not previously started on
this line of publication. Better late than
never, as the old adage runs, and now, having a guide book, we recommend oil persons
desirous of gleaning information respecting
our islands to invest in the purchase of this
book, and they may rely upon the information which it contains. The price is only
sixty cents. Any of our readers in America
or England who will send us seventy-five
cents in postage stamps, we will send them
by mail a copy of this little book.

Correspondent in Japan.

Kobe, Japan, Aug. 4th, 1875.
Ilea. S. C. Damon:—l suppose you will
be glad to hear of the recent movement at
Sanda, twenty miles northwest of Kobe.
On the 27th ult. a church was organized
there. While so much is being done to circulate the Bible, it is cheering to know how
the Gospel was first introduced at this station. Some ten or fifteen years ago a Bible
or two in Chinese was lelt there, by whom
we know not. The Daimio, being a liberal
man, did not hinder those who understood
that language from reading it. The number
who read or heard it grew large, and became
much interested in it. Hence when Mr. Dovis, two years ago, began to preach there,
they gladly received his message. And it
is said most of the church members of Kobe
were originally from Sanda; and now a
church of seven males and nine females has
just been organized there.
The house in which the church was organized has an interesting history. It is a
one-story building, probably 100 feet by 50,
covered with tile, and is said to have been
built three hundred years ago, (fifty years
before the pilgrims arrived in New England)
and to have been occupied, until the recent
revolution, by the Daimios, viz., governors
of that district. The last one now lives in
Kobe, and his mother is a member of the
church here. It was recently sold to a company in Sunda, who let out part of it for a
dispensary and hospital, and two large and

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venders; and had spent his time in telling his ailments or
in even retired from the field to the hospital, it
Miss Dudley has spent four or five months would be easy to find circumstances to exif
with them, and several other female mem- cuse, not to justify, such a course. But
instead of yielding to selfish complaint or
bers of the mission, a week at a time, read- valetudinarian indolence, he manfully hcl<
ing the Scriptures to and with them, and on his way a cheerful traveler to the ver;
trying to show them their meaning. The close, the greatest writer and pastor of his
year past my son has preached to them once age—" doing the work of a city missionary
at
more pages
a fortnight, nnd occasionally spent several thanKidderminster, and writing
now read."
students
many
days there instructing them. And when
they wished to be organized into a church,
Prof. Boyd Dawkins, of Owen College,
Mr. Davis, being pressed with labors in Manchester, England, was a passenger on
Kobe, urged that my son should take the board the last Australian steamer bound to
lead. It is said the work there has reached San Francisco from Sydney. This gentlefemales more than at any other station in man is professor of geology and a graduate
Japan. It is also remarkable that most of of Oxford. He was sent out by capitalists
the converts there and at Kobe are of the of England to examine certain oil coal resoldier class. They are pretty generally gions in New South Wales. He left Engeducated, and being now disbanded and their land in
June, and expects to get back in seapension much reduced, they seem to be more
son
for
the
fall course of lectures. He has
than
most
to
hear
and
embrace
the
ready
written upon prehistoric themes, and is now
Gospel.
Imamura, who was with my son at the preparing to publish a work upon recent disislands, is of that class, and seems now to coveries in Switzerland.
be a true Christian. And those who under—Anthony Trollope, the novelist, was nlso
stand Japanese say he preaches well. His
by the same steamer. In the Seppassenger
mother, who at first much opposed to his
professing Christianity, is apparently quite tember number of Harper's Monthly, the
reconciled, and seems to be a serious in- reader will find a cut reproduced from the
quirer ; and I believe his wife is, also.
work of Anthony Trollope's mama, on the
Although I know almost nothing of Jap- manners of Americans.
anese, still it is sweet to hear the natives
sing in familiar tunes, but in their own
Death of the Rev. E. S. Lacy.—In the
tongue, such hymns as " Rock of Ages,"
of August 26th, we read the anMe,"
Old,
Jesus
Loves
The
Old
Dacijic
Story,"
"
"
"In the Sweet By-and-by," and others of nouncement of the death of Mr. Lacy, whose
that class. In prayers, both public and pri- life and labors have been so intimately intervate, there is one very striking and to me
agreeable feature. When through the or- woven with the religious life and progress of
dinary petitions of the leader, they repeat California during the past twenty years. It
in concert the Lord's Prayer, which of was never our privilege to become personally
course takes in the whole world.
acquainted with the deceased, but his repuAs ever yours, in Christ,
tation as preacher and pastor has ever been
P. J. Gulick.
such that we have regarded him as among
A Monument to Baxter.—Only think of the truly reliable and devoted ministers of
it,—Dean Stanley and other dignitaries of the Congregational body. He was the prethe Church of England uniting with Non- decessor of Rev. Dr. Stone, as pastor of the
conformists in erecting a monument or statue first Congregationul Church of San Franto the memory of Richard Baxter. We copy cisco, but was compelled to resign on account of ill health.
as follows from the Pacific:
Distinguished gentlemen and dignitaries
The " Punahou Mirror."—No sooner
in Church and State graced "the occasion
with their presence. It is cheering to ob- had the new school year opened and the proserve how much the memory of such godly gramme of the daily exercises been arranged,
men as Bunyan and Baxter is honored in than we see the College reflected
in the
the times in which we live. A London pathe
pages
and
cheerful
oi
Mirror.
bright
The
statue
is
in gray Sicilian
per says :
" height of the figure
marble. The
is 10 feet, This betokens study and enterprise. Punaand it will be placed on a granite pedestal hou is a well-spring of intellectual life to
12 feet high. The sculptor has made use Hawaii nei. Not more refreshing is the
not only of the well-known portrait at Kidspring gushing pure and clear from the hills'
derminster, but also of others in the British
than
this seminary's clear stream of educaMuseum; and he has produced what is probably a faithful, and is certainly a striking tional and literary life flowing forth upon
and impressive, semblance of that great and our island community. Sixty pupils have
earnest spirit who, in spite of bodily weak- already entered to be instructed by the corps
ness, ever living as he did upon the very of teachers largely re-enforced
from the
brink of the grave, achieved an amount of
fresh
California.
life
of
success
May
crown
work which few men in robust health have
labors of teachers and studies of the puequaled and none surpassed.
Dr. Angus has truly said that if Baxter pils.
two small rooms to the Bible
now to the church.

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(From '-Tlic Leisure

Hour" for AujuK.l

KAPIOLANI.
lii 1525, live years after the first missionaries landed in Hawaii, Kapiolani, a
woman of high rank, while living at Kaiwaoloa (where Captain Cook was murdered)
became a Christian. Grieving for her people, most of whom still feared to anger Pele,
she announced that it was her intention to
visit Kilauea (the largest known volcano),
and dare the fearful goddess to do her worst.
Her husband and many others tried to dissuade her, but she was resolute, and taking
with her a large retinue, she took a journey
of one hundred miles, mostly on foot, over
the rugged lava, till she arrived near the
crater. There a priestess of Pele met her,
threatened her with the displeasure of the
goddesa if she persisted, and prophesied that
she and her followers would perish miserably. Then, as now, ohelo berries grew profusely round the terminal wall of Kilauea,
and there, as elsewhere, were sacred to Pele,
no one daring to eat of them till he had first
offered some of them to the divinity. It
was usual on arriving at the crater to break
a br.inch covered with berries, and, turning
the face to the pit of fire, throw half the
branch over the precipice, saying, Pele,
'
here are your ohelos. I offer some to you,
•ionic I also eat;' afier which the natives
partook of tlicin freely. Kapiolani gathered
and ate them without this formula, after
which she and her company of eighty persons descended to the black edge of Haleluau-mau. There, in full view of the fiery
jut, she thus addressed her followers :
' JeIwivah is my God. He kindled these fires.
1 fear not Pele. If I perish by the anger of
Pek\ then yo-*i may fear the power of Pele ;
but if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save

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me from the wrath of Pele, then you must
fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the
gods of Hawaii are vain ! Great is Jehovah's goodness in sending teachers to turn
us from these vanities to the living God ! '
Then they sang a hymn. It was more sublime than Elijah's appeal on the soft green
slopes of Carmel."— The Hawaiian Archipe/<it/<>, by Isabella Bird.
It was a toilsome journey, league on league
Across the pathless wild. Three times Ihe nun
Above Ihe orient sens had climbed to noon,
Aud all the waters hound in girdling light,
Then traveled slowly to the golden west;
And distant still the mountain summit glowed,
With pulsing tire that mocked the night and man.
Now morning came beneath the plumy [alms,
Ami Kapiolani woke her tardy tribe
With words of failh more strong than Pclc's spells;
Like sylvan priestess, whose beseeching eyrs
Spoke some near Presence hid from common view.
A white roh-Arrappcd the dusky cbieftainess.
And where she plunged into green depths of shade,
And waved them onward with uplifted arm.
Showed, like a knight's pure crest iv holy war.
When red blood flows, borne ever to the limit.

The lava spread, a molten fca congealed
In bonds more pot cut than the icy chaius
Of polar realms, —now rippled as wiih waves.
And rugged to the trend, now smooth lo tempt
A fall, —a vast expanse, where torrent strove
With torrent once, lending the mountain side.
And rolled destruction. Forms of beauty clung
About the fire-stained rocks, and waves of green
Contended with the grey, cold waves of stone;
And last, the fairy terns shook out their plumes
High overhead, as if to win the waste
With tender graces. Then, the scene all changed;
The ashen flood held sway unbroken, save
Where errant feed sought life, or scattered bush
Upbore the ruddy bam*, net l'elc loved.
The sacred berries, tinged with fiery red.
No bird with flashing wing made bright tho iiir.
Or dared those frowning heights with cheerful song;
No insect danced along the sunbeam's path.
Strange fumes swept downward, pungent lo Ihe sense
And sounds more awlul than the thunder-crash
Mysterious, mutllcil, like wine caverucd sea—
Appalled tho trembling pilgrims.

—

Night enrae down
With swift still step across the golden skies.
Hut brought new terrors lo ! her silver robes
Ensanguined, and her starry train all dim,
The firmament aglow with earth-born clouds.
That throbbed with angry
one moment while
The forest tracks were tangled with wild growths, With mighty passion, aud life,
the
next
blood-red
Festoons of beauty binding tree to tree,
Wiih pulsing force; while the near mountain flamed
Like masts with glossy cordage intertwined;
With flashing tires inlcuser than the gleam
Aud gorgeous blooms beset Ihe weary feet,
Of many lightnings.
The many-colored wreaths ih.it nature weaves
Kapiolani slept.
And art but sees in dreams; while like a mist
Untouched by fear. Perchance bright visions passed
Which holds the glory of the noon difluscd,
In hcaveu's eclipsing light before her eyes.
An odor floated o'er them, blending all
Tho spirit lives not only on the earth.
lv ouc sweet airy essence. Now the way
Nor draws its energies from common air.
Led upward, where tho falling waters leapt
Nor oulv sees the goal of mortal strength.
To cooler depths, mid rugged sun-scorched rocks.
Her heart had communed with Ihe things unseen
Chaotic, where the swift stream gurgling siuole
That failh discloses; nought she knew of old
The hardy swimmer trained to ride the surge
Heroic story, nought of human fame;
On coral reef, and hurled him back lo tin.l
But one sole act, much pondered, filled her life
Another passage. Evening showed their goal.
With fervor of devotion,—that great dostb
With fires that brightened at the sun's decline.
Whereby with blood Christ sets the basest free,
And held them constant, as yon starry Cross
And gives the dying life. The sacred sense
The wistful sailor tossing on the seas.
Of kinship with the Father in the skies
Was hers, tho trust that lifts the lowly heart
So wore the days; and soon the pilgrim baud,
Drawn onward by the larger soul that in|.*.|,
To heights of holy doing. God, who made
All nations of one blood, and through the same
Like babbling waters lost in one great tide.
Had reached the higher slopes Heneath their feet All lightcouii Lord biuda iv one kiugUoio,—llni

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Nor cast nor west should glory, nor the lands
Whoso spreading plains are furrowed with the deeds
Of hemes dead despise the isles remote.
Nor paler race the dark,—this Ood she knew;
His love had sought her with redeeming words,
A child of nature, summoned to purtaku
His service. What were I'elc's wrath, if robed
hi tire-clouds she should dare Jehovah ? what
The rending earth compared with His dread step
W ho made all worlds ?
Yet Pele ruled the isles,
Seen only in the tierce volcano's flame,
Heard in its muttered thunders, felt when wroth
She scourged with lava coils the fair green bills;
A phantom goddess, terrible the more.
What marvel that Hawaia's simple race,
Untutored, trembled at the smoking mount,
Aud held it god-possest ? The mystic fires
Wrought ever upward from the central earth,
Resist less,—not the storm-lashed waves so shook
The coral strand; they plowed the level shore
With shares ol flame, and rock on rock upheaved
From ocean depths, aud bound with Alpine chains,
Till ou their ruddy peaks the white snows hissed,
And spread their cooling mantle. All the laud
lloro marks of fire; the limpid pools that glassed
The sunbeams showed its scars beneath; and like
Some scorching footstep tho black lava track
I! in through the verdant forests. Now the skies
Serenely kissed the sleeping mountain, theu
Drew back in terror. Lo ! a pillar held
Hv ticry hands that seemed to smite Ihe stars,
Uprcared a thousand feet of solid flame,
Piercing the midnight of a hundred miles
With shafts of day. Behold, the pslm-grovcs sway,
And smoking fall, while the hot torrent rolls
lis fury downward; swift as mountain stream,
ltroad as some mighty river of the plains.
In rippling fire,—with voico of hurricauc;
A flaming cataract that sweeps to death
Man and all creatures, —leaping to the sea
With serpent hiss, in shock that rends the waves !
O Pele, goddess of the fire-crowned isles.
Clothed with the lightnings of unnumbered years,
Lives there the mortal who would brave thine ire?
Now Mauna Loa paled before tbe sun;
Its lofty dome against the azure sky
Hi-ought earth and heaven near, the peaceful heights
Where wiuds disturb not near to fire-built halls
Where nature languished iv convulsive strife.
The dread Kilauea from lowerrange
Its seething cauldrons opened to the day,
Aud mocked its glory; and dire Hale-mau-mau,
"The House of Eveilastiug Fire," so named
Of hoar tradition, spread its gates abroad
Aflame with splendor.
Pele's priestess came,
With demon glare, gaunt, haggard, clad in robe
The tires had fringed, and shrieked her curses, till
The painting smoke-clouds, sweeping downward,
[seemed
To breathe her fury.
Kapiolani drew
Her shudd'ring people to the crater's brink,
Where the fierce goddess slumbered, wrapped iv fireNow would she prove to all the craven tritics,
—As erst on Carracl's height Elijah mocked
The priests of Baal,—that Jehovah reigns;
Aud down the dread abyss she led tbe way
Past blackened walls that mirrored deeper gloom.
Past rooks now white with breath of former heats,
Aud yellow sulphur streams, and rivers caught
In flaming whirlpools, and then chilled to stone;
O'er solid lake, through shivered fortress wild;
While darker, denser grew the air, and hot
Tbe fumes, and scorching to her feet the path.
The steaming earth scarce hardened to her tread;
Or chasm broad or rugged rent opposed
Her progress, while fromcaverncd depths there came
Fierce sultry blasts that withered all the strength.
At last she stood beside the molten sea.
That flashed and quivered in a thousuud waves,
Aud rolled its flame* with thunders. Never tongue
Can tell the sight; for, far as eye could scan,
The fountains of the fiery deep were loosed.
Now leaping to the clouds,— in ruddy rain
llctmning,—whirling downward now, in force
That cleft the serried billows like the might
Of lightnings multitudinous; a calm
Fast cooled the bubbling flood to silver, or
With roseate hues a moment tracked the flame :
Quick broken, when ill wild volcanic rage.
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And whelmed the toppling cliffs with living Are.
So, ever restless heaved this flaming sea,
With flaming pall encompassed, and with sound
Of throbbing earthquake from the depths unknown.
Tbe dusky queen stood in the lurid light,
And gated nor feared. The branch long dedicate
To Pele in her hand she held, and broke,
And gave not first the customary gift,
But ate the saorod berries, nnd defied
The immemorial bond,—while yonder sea
Lashed the dread throne of Pele, in their sight.

MARINE JOURNAL.
PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I.
ARRIVALS.
■Sept. 3—Am brig J B Ford, Jenks, 18] days from Humboldt
Bay.
U—Tahitian bk lonia, Lovegrovc. 23 day* tin Bolahola
1(1—11 It M rt Fctercl, Cookwn, from Hilo, Hawaii.
17—Brlt itmr City of Melbourne, Brown, 13 da>» and
20

"Jehovah is our God," she cried; thetc fires
He kindled; vain Ihe wrath, and vaiu ihe power
Of dreaded Pele; I defy her spells.
Praise, all ye isles, the great Jehovah's love !"
Then from her lips there rose the liquid straius
Of simple hymn,—in tongue unknown to fame,
But burdened with tbe theme that angels siug;
And in the pauses of the thunder-voiced
Fire billows, its clear -aadencc fell in notes
Of faith victorious.
Her people heard,
And caught tbe holy song, emancipate
In sudden freedom. Pele gave no sign.
Nor rent tho earth, nor flashed her auger forth,
licr phautom terrors less than airy smoke
That vanished. Then, far down the island hills
There went the story of her vanquished mime.
w. |HI HI II

Organ Fund and Bethel Repairs.
Co*.! ol new organ in llosloo, ($1000 in currcney)....$ 911 09
91 30
Dulles ami r.llargc»
86 50
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l.uca**.' car|K.*nlry bill
I., with & llu kM.o'n lull
26 111
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56 00
Marauley'i bill
39 82
Dilliufkalll A Co.'a hill
Incidentals, including mason and {lainler'a work, ma50 68
terial*, &C
$1290 41

I 362 60

100 00
10O 00
100 00
60 00
60 00
25 00
114 00
86 60
218 50
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Who is "Starling ?"-A London correspondent writes us inquiring, Who is " Starling?" It appears that the poetry written
at the islands has reached London! " Starling," we believe, is none other than our
editorial brother, H. L. Sheldon, Esq., editor
of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. In
the March number of the Friend for 1865,
will be found a poem entitled " The South
Sea Slaver," by " Starling; " and other poetical effusions claim a similar paternity.
We would acknowledge a discourse,
commemorative of Hon. S. Williston, founder of Williston Seminary, East Hampton,
Mass., by Kcv. W. S. Tyler, D. D.

DIED.
Eckut—In pan Francisco, Cal., 8*pt. 3d, ofabscess of ibe
lungs, Mrs. BUtilDs, widow of the late Christian Eckart, of
this city, aged '<A yearsand 4 months.
Toribut—At Ihc Walslna Female Seminary, fcpt. 13lh,
<if coiiMiliiption. M»itr B. TuaiihKT, u(ed IS year* and 6
month*. Her etui was perfect peace.
Kykb—In this city. September 16th, «;oBr(tl.ri William, Inlant son ,4 l». K. ryfc-, tsi. a.«l U month..

tioun from Auckland.

r> ltni bk Jalawar. t'hiltun, 17 dayi fin Ban Franriw j*
21—Am wh bk Napoleon, Jernefan, fin cruiie, wiih 26U

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Money received from—
Tableaux, |>er J O. Carter
II. Haekfeld, llremen
J. C. Pllugcr, llremen
C. Urewer, Baalon
C. A. Willianu
J. W. Aui-iiu
Friend in Boston
Sale ol old organ
inc inatcll
«l»*ll
Suh**cri|.lion iu Bethelcongregation
C. Brewer*. Co
Other donuri

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iperui.

21—Am wh bk Atlantic, Brown, fm cruise, with 80 MMa
21—Brit Mtror Cyphrenea, Wood, 8J dayi (m 6 Iranci co
26—Am ihlp Marnaue Noltebohm, Whitney, put in lor
re|>airt.

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25—Haw achr Uilaina, Engliah, dayi Irom Cuaim U
23—Am bk Herbert Black, Treat, 43 days I'rum bj duty

DEPARTURES.
Sept. I—Am bk D C Murray, Fuller, for Han Francisco
1—Am ship Lady lllcaidiigion, Brown, fur Baker'a 1

3— U HMB I'el-jre I, Conkvon, for Hilo, Hawaii.
:'»—Am bk Camden. Robinaou, lor Fort Camble*
14 Haw brig Fomarc, lluiUeld, for Tahiti.
]ii
Ami bk Ceylon, Wood*, for San Francisco.
IH—Brit atmr Cliy of Melbourne.Brown, for H FmncUcu
22—Bril atmr Cyphrcnea. Wood, for Auckland A rtydmy
22—Am brig J Ii Ford, Jenki, fur fan Fram-iM-it.
23—Brit bk Jalawar, Chilton, for guanoiManila.
24—11 II M H I'eierul, Cookiou, for a cruUc.
2S— Am bk Ilcrtwrt Black, Treat, for I'ortlan I. Oregon.

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MEMORANDA.

The wlialing Larks Napoleon, Capt. Jcrnefan, anil Ailnnii.
Capt. Urown, arrived on the Kirn September from the tMstun
whaling cruuiiil lor repairs, liny having collided at sn au.l
sustained some damage.
Report or Hrio J II Ford, GW Jerks, Masteii—fail
.*.l from Humboldt Uay Aug 17tli at 2 p m; llrit two d»y» 1i.i.l
strong N W winds,since then Imvu had light NB winds ami
line weather. Sighted Maui Scpl 2d at 11 am, and arrived in
11*.n..lulu next morning.
Report or Hare loan, Lovborove. Mister.—U*ii Ta
hitl on the 7th of August,and arrived at Uoraliora nexi il.iy
After loading left Uoraliora on the 18lh, with rrcsh trades well
to northward, malting Mint's Island on ihe 22d, after which 1..
the line had strong easterly winds. Unused the line Urn
K7lh In long 160 ° 10' W. Carried HE trades to about lat 7 °
N-, then came on squally weather and heavy rains Willi balllmi* wind belweeD weat and south until Sept 4th, when the
wind sprang up livhl from NNE, afterwards hauling lo NX
and freshening. From thence to port had fresh trades. Made
ill** Island of Hawaii on Sept Bth, and arrived in Honolulu ou
theUlh, after a passage of 23 days.
Report or BTE»aaHirdiTv ok Melbourne. J WBrowk,
Commander—At Ipm on Aus 28ih, after having received
on board the English malls, cast oil' Irom her moorings i
Johnson's Hay and proceeded slowly down the harbor. Clear
ed the heads at 1 p m with a light easterly breoie and Hi
weather, which continued until arrival at Ihe Three King
which were passed at i p in Sept Ist; thenec light N E wind
lo North Cape, which was passed at 8.44 p m same day. En
tered harbor of Auckland at 1 p m on the id, winds throng
out being easterly and NE, with line weather. Left Aucklui
al 2 p m on Hie 3d,after detention of three hours-, cleared lb
Great Harrier at 8p m. On the Bth hi 8p in passed the Is
and of Tululla. Croased the line on the meridian of 186°4
Woo the 12th at 10am. After leaving Auckland experienced
a strong NN X gale and a heavy head sea which tailed tw
days, the ship rolling heavily and shipping large quantities u
water*, thence moderate easterly and NE winds until reachit
tbe 17° parallel of latitude, thence light N w winds hauled
ibe southward. Arrived in Honolulu about noon of Sept lit
Report or Bteam»hip (..vpheekbr, Wood,lormakdr
—Lelt Ban Francisco at 11.30 a m Sept 13th,and cleared II
GoldenGate al 12.1t. Fine weather and light variable win.
have been experienced throughout ihe passage. Sighted Ms
at 11a m Sept 21st, and arrived orl Honolulu at 9 p in. I'll"
Herbv Adams. Parser.
boarded at 10.30 p in.
Report or Chip Marriank Nottebohm, Whitsi
Enderbury
July 9lh with a load
Island
Master.—Left
guanolor Queenslown. During the voyage encountered heav
s
sprung
Ihe
vessel
aleak, and had
gales in lat 43 8. when
put forihla port for repairs, arrlviug od Saturday, Sept 26.

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PASSENGERS.
From Boraiora—Per lonia, Sepi Mil—Mra Howe, Mr
Hrown.
For T*hiti—Per Poiuarc, Sept 14th—Godfrey Brown.
For
»a*«ciaco—Per City of Melbourne. Sept Mh
Mr and Miss Uornahell, J II Coppeahagen Dr J M Brown,
Mrs Hamilton and children,Louis Abel, Mrs Lyons, Kcc Hong,
II M Whitney, Mr Peeblesand wife. Ur J 8 McCrew, wile aud
child, Miss Bennett, R B Voohrtes, Jr.
From Bar Francisco—Per Jalawar,Sept 19th—Captain

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Tripp.
� sum Bart Francisco—Per Cyphranes, Sept 21st—Mrs W
F Mosamao and 4 children, J Barton, E V Thwing. Geo Hlratc-

meyer. Chun Fan, J P Cooke, M Louisson, B P Wickershaai.
7 in Ihe steerage, and 00 ihrough passengers.
For Auckland k Sydney—Per Cyphreoei,Bcp» 22d—11
T Strange, J W Bhanklln, and 00 from SaoFiancWeo.
For San Frarcirco—Per J B Ford, Bepi 2Kd—W II Peebles. T X Park, Mr« I; E William*. E William., Cbaa Williams, Mi*. Ilaltie Wi'liams, Mr King.
For Tahiti—Per lonia. Kepi Mill—J II Uaaghioo. Jo*
Mi.mil. I A Brown.

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rII X
The Two Great Poems of India.

We are indebted to Messrs. Trubner &
Co. of London, for sending regular files of
their "American and Oriental Literary Record/ From its perusal we glean many
curious facts relating to the world's literature, not published in any other periodical.
In reading some of the ambitious literary
productions of the uge, one would be led to
infer that former generations were very
ignorant. From this periodical of Trubner
& Co. we learn much relating to the ancient
literature of India, but specially that department which has been for ages hid away in
the Sanskrit language. The celebrated linguist and philologist, Max Muller, has done
much to introduce to European readers a
knowledge of Sanskrit literature.
In the last number of the
Record"
which has just been received, we find a

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notice, by Edwin Arnold of
Oxford University and formerly principal of
a Sanskrit College at Poona, India, of the
two great poems of India, which he styles
" The Iliad and the Odyssey of India. ' We
copy the following paragraphs relating to
these two poems, one of which contains
200,000 verses, and the other 50,000. Both
the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer contain
only some 30,000 and Milton's Paradise
Lost only 10.565 lines.
two great, two colossal, two
" There exist
unparalled
epic poems in the sacred language of India which were not known to
Europe, even by name, till Sir William
Jones announced their existence >and which,
since his time, have been made public only
by fragments, by specimens bearing to those
vast treasures of Sanskrit literature such
small proportion as cabinet samples of ore
have to the riches of a silver mine. Yet
these most remarkable poems contain all the
history of ancient India, so far as it can be
recovered, together with such inexhaustible
details of its political, social, and religious
life, that the antique Hindoo world really
stands epitomized in them. The Old Testament is not more interwoven with the
Jewish race, nor the New Testament with
the civilization of Christendom, nor the Koran with the records and destinies of Islam,
than these two Sanskrit poems with that
unchanging and teeming population whifch
Her Majesty rul«s as Empress of Hindostan.
The stories, songs, and ballads, the histories
and genealogies, the nursery tales and religious discourses, the art, the learning, tbe
philosophy, the creeds, the moralities, the
modes of thought, the very phrases, sayings,
turns of expression, and daily ideas of the
Hindoo people are taken from these poems.
Their children and their wives are named
out of them; so are their cities, temples,
streets, and cattle. They have constituted
the library, the newspaper, and the Bible,
generation after generation, to all the succeeding and countless millions of Indian
people ; and it replaces patriotism with that
race and stands in stead of nationality to
most interesting

MMEMi, OCTOBER,

1815.

possess these two precious and inexhaustible
books, and to drink from them as from
might)' and overflowing rivers. The value
ascribed in Hindostan to these two littleknown epics has transcended all literary
standards established here. They are personified, worshiped, and cited from as some*
thing divine. To read or even listen to
them is thought by the devout Hindoo sufficiently meritorious to bring prosperity to his
household here and happiness in the next
world ; they are held also to give wealth to
the poor, health to the sick, wisdom to the
ignorant; and the recitation of certain parvas and shlokcs in them can fill the household of the Darren, it is believed, with children
" Yet these national paeins—the Mahabharat and the Kamayana, the literary palladia of India—remain unknown to Europe,
and have never been translated by command
of the English Government, as beyond question they should have been. Nothing, in
truth, can Quite excuse the indifference
shown in this default.
The Kamayana of Valmiki, answering
most to the Odyssey, has just been completed

tal melody the hearts of all the Indian people If we have effected this, our purpose is
accomplished. In another paper, and on a
future occasion, we hope to notice the remarkable translation which Mr. Ralph Griffith, of tne Benares College, has achieved
from the Sanskrit of that sister-poem of the
Mahabharata—the voluminous Kamayana."

The Murder of Commodore Goodenough.
—Some one has kindly sent us a copy of
the Auckland weekly Herald containing a
full report of the death of this noble officer
of the British navy. It appears that he received his death wounds from the poisoned
arrow of the natives of Santa Cruz, the island where the late Bishop Patteson was cut
off". The Commodore was in command of
the Australian naval station, and was highly
esteemed. His lamented death and that of
two or three of his seamen, has called forth
expressions of sympathy from not only the
people of the Colonies, but also from the
"
Queen of England. The paper from which
by the single-handed toil of Mr. Kalph Grif- we glean this information attributes the sad
fith, Principal of the Benares College.
occurrence to "a hostility probably provoked
"As for the Mahabharata, even more vast by some previous outrage committed by
than the Kamayana, it would seem, as has white men."
been said, hopeless to expect that any single
There is no doubt about the matter, it
mind could address itself to the translation
of that almost endless epic. A bare tran- will take a long time to efface from the simscript into curt and literal prose would occu- ple natives the memory of the outrages compy about fifteen ordinary octavo volumes, mitted by the "kidnappers." The British
without a note or comment. But, wonderful Government has done nobly, through the
to relate, this, too, has been achieved, or agency of the navy, to suppress those
nearly so, by a scholar unknown, yet well "white men" engaged in kidnapping, but
deserving fame and public gratitude.
the colonial governments —Queen's Land
Such is the barest outline of this mighty and New South Wales—have not sustained
and" ancient poem, which has had far more the Home Government. Read the report of
rapt listeners than ever the ' Iliad' or Captain Palmer, commander of the Rosario,
' Odyssey ' could boast—which may claim a nnd reports of courts of New South Wales.
grander scheme and higher aims than either, Captain Palmer's book on kidnapping now
and which in many a beautiful and sonorous lies before us.
passage does not yield in music or invention
Rev. Dr. Finney Departed.—This prince
or majesty to the flow of Homer's own
Greek. Outside the main story and its of revival preachers and president of Oberlin
many episodes the gigantic work contains, College, died August 16th at the advanced
as an ocean embraces islands, the separate
age of over four score. Few men of the
compositions of the Bhagavad-Gita, with the
legends of Krishna and the three famous passing age have exerted a more commandstories of Mala and Damayanti, Devayani ing influence among the churches of Ameriand Vayati, and—though this was interpo- ca. He was a native of Litchfield County,
lated — Chandrahasna and Bikya. The Ct., from whence have come so many noble
Mahabharata is, in truth, an ocean of poetry, men and women. He was a lawyer by prowhose coast-line we have merely indicated, fession, but when he became a follower of
yet we have accomplished our purpose in Christ he entered the pulpit, which he has
praising the industry which has summarized honored for a good half century. Tbe Amit in Mr. Talboys Wheeler's admirable first erican pulpit has had few such preachers,
volume; the spirit which has aided him in and the interests of college education few
Messrs. Trubner's well-known interest in such advocates.
Oriental learning; and the devotion, above
all, of that nameless scholar whose toil has Acoustic Failures.—Dr. Lothrop's church
sounded lor us the depths of this almost in Boston is one of the costliest churches on
boundless sea. We have dipped but a cup the Back Bay. As a preaching place, it is
or two from its musical wavelets of love al- an entire failure. Every method has been
ternating with mighty rolling billows of tem- adopted to remedy the defect, but without
pestuous passion, and sinking back again avail. The Central Church, costing, it is
into ripples of restful peace and the calm of said, over a quarter of a million, has shoved
the dark waters at night. It was our desire, its platform away into the center, to cure dewhile doing justice to a recent notable work, fective hearing, but without success. The
to convey some slight idea to the English new Universalis! Church, one of the most
public of this vast antique epic, which to tbe elegant and costly in Boston, is a mortifying
present hour feeds with by-gone but immor- failure.

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Places of Worship.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Seamen's Bethel—Rev. S. C. Oamon, Oliaplain.
King street, near tbe Sailors' 11 i*. Preaching
at 11 A.M. Seats free. Sabljalh School before the
morning service. Prayer meeting on Wednesday
evenings at 74 o'clock. Noon-day prayer meeting
every day frmn hall-past VI to 1.
Foiit Street Cmukcu—ltev. W. Frear. Pastor,
corner ot Fort anil Run WWW slreets. Preaching
on Sundays at II a. M. and 7.$ p.m. Sabbath
School ut II) a. M.
Kawaiaii \i> (Jiiiiucu—Bar. 11. 11. Parker, Pastor.
King street, above the i'alnce. Services in Hawaiian every Sunday at!»*J a. m. and 'A r. M.
Roman* Catholic Cucnon— Under Urn charge of
Rt. Rev. Bishop Muigret. assisted by llev. Father
Hermann ; Fort street, near llerelania. Services
every Sunday at 10 a. m. and 1 W M.
Kal'Mak.vimi.i Cnuitcit—Rev. M. Knaea, Pastor.
Beretania street, near Niiii.inii. Services in 11awniian every Sunday at 10 A. M. nnd 2*J p. M.
Thk Anglican Uhukcii—Bishop, the lit. Rev. AlIred Willis. I) I).; Clergy. Rev. Rob't Dunn, M. A.,
Rev. Alex. Mackintosh. St. Andrew's Temporary
Cathedral, fltiri'tf'H street, opposite the Hotel.
English service.-) on Sundays at, ti.J and 11 a. m.. nnd
24 nnd "4 p. m. Sunday School at tbe Clergy
1louse at 10 A. M.

D. 1%. FI,ITNEK,
HKK-I'KOUK Uuildiog, Kaithumanu
CONTINUES

HIS OLD BUSINESS IN TIIK
street.

Coromometkrs rated hy ohservatii.na of the sun and stars
with a transit instrument accurately adjusted to Ihe meridian
of Honolulu.

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Commission Merchants,
Plantation and Insurance Agents, Honolulu, 11. I.

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Dealers in lumber and Ruiltling Materials,
Fort .Street, Honolulu, 11. I.
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Physician and Surgeon,
Corner Merchantsnd Kaitliumunu Blreets, near the I'ostOQice

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Officers' Table, with lodging, per week,

ADAMS.

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Auction and Commission Merchant,
Fire-I'roof Store, in Robinson's Building, Queen Street.
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Dentist,

Carriage Making and Trimming!

Having resumed practice, can he found at his rooms over X
Sirehs A Co.'s Drug Store, corner of Fort and lintel sts.

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$1
Seamen's do.
6
do.
do.
Shower Hatha on the Premises.
ED. DUNSCOMBE,
Manager.
Honlulii. January 1, 1875.

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WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM YOU THAT
I no* employ the best Mechanioa in Ibe line of

Carriage Making,
Carriage and General Blacksmithing,
Can be consulted at his residence on Hotel street, between
Painting. Repairing, dec.
Particular attention given to Fine Watch Repairing
Alakea and Fort streets.
On the Hawaiian Group ; and it is a well established
fact that oar Carriage Trimming, hy Mr. R. WhitSextantand quadrantglasses silvered and adjusted. Charts
WEST,
pi
and nautical instruments constantly on hand and for sale.
man, Is aa well executed as any in New York City or
fel
elsewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that
Wagon and Carriage Builder,
we oan manufaoture aa good a class of work in Ho74 and 76 King Street, Honolulu.
JOHN M'CRIKRII.
J. 0. MI BRILL.
nolulu as can be found in any part of the world. I
ET Island orders pininptly executed at lowest rates
will also state here that we folly intend to work at
J. 0.
ii. Co.,
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Pwre religion and undeftted before God, the Father, is this:
thc.fathrrlcKH and widows in their affliction, and lo keep one's selfunsjmltedfrom the world.

Edited ly a Committee of lit Y. K. C. A.
Joint Heirs with Christ.
(St. Paul.)
Wluit winged words ol love and grace.
Mysterious nnd divine!
Upon our poor and sinful race
VV hnt j;ilts of glory shine !
With Him, ol nil tilings who is heir,
lli.it we the inheritance should share.
Heirs of the Father's love so great,
So strong, so deep, so high.
That iiutliing from His blest estate
Can move us carelessly.
When shed abroad within the heart,
'Tin ours for nyc, this better part.

Heirs of the Spirit's power so sweet,
To comfort in distress ;
In way of truth to guide our feet,
To sanctity and bless ;
To wing our prayers and all our needs
The Holy Spirit intercedes.

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And heirs of God !" A boon, indeed !
Inheritance how blest!
(■'ihl only fills tho soul's
great need,
And gives it perfect rest;
Nat heaven itself, that blest abode,
t 'uiilil satisfy us without Uod.

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The Pacific.

Triennial Catalogue of Amherst College.

connected with the college, and among them
four from our islands, viz, Whitney, Shipman, Bond and Peterson. Few colleges in
America can exhibit a more honorable lecord
for a half century's growth nnd development.
The faculty now embraces twenty-two professors nnd tutors. The college is amply
endowed and furnished with chapels, lecture
rooms, dormitories, gymnasium, museums,
and all the means and appliances of a first
class institution. It is situated on one of the
most lovely sites of New England, commanding a view of the Connecticut Valley,

through which the " winding nnd willowfringed " river of the same name wends its
passage to the ocean. Opposite Amherst on
the other side of the river is situated Northampton, or Beecher's " Norwood," where are
located Smith's Female College and the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, while only a few
miles away to the south, nestling under the
brow of Mt. Holyoke, is situated Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, of world wide fame.
Only one mile north of Amherst College is
situated Massachusetts Agricultural College,
which is taking rank as one of the most successful institutions of that class in America.
These are not all Ihe institutions of learning
in that vicinity, but we may add Williston
Seminary in East Hampton, Amherst and
Hadley Academies, and Mt. Pleasant High
School; and we know not but others of a
kindred nature. We are not aware as any
spot in America within a radius of ten
miles contains so many and so varied a
cluster of literary institutions of a high order. In these days when the idea of University education is gradually taking possession of the American mind, why might not
all these colleges, seminaries and academies
be combined under one head ? • They would
surely form a University equal to any in
America, or any other land. They are situated in the heart of New England. So
long as the heart pulsates responsive to the
demands of America and the world, there is
hope for the future.

This is a beautifully printed pamphlet of
115 pages, and contains a full catalogue of
all the graduates since the foundation of the
institution. The first class contained only
three graduates, but one of the trio was the
widely known and justly honored Professor
Snell, who has been connected with the college as a student and teacher from its origin.
He has lectured to fifty successive classes,
and still appears before the students in the
lecture room as interested, instructive and
skillful in the performance of the most delicate experiments in Natural Philosophy as
in the earlier years of his professional life.
The Rev. Dr. Tyler, Professor of Greek, has
for more than forty years been connected
with the college. These gentlemen with
Beware of Thinking Evil.
their honored associates have brought forward 2,172 young men, who have gone English and Australian papers give much
forth to the varied walks of professional life, space to the case of Col. Baker, whose con—854 having become ordained ministers, 64 duct merits such severe public censure. His
foreign missionaries, 148 physicians, while instant and unconditional dismissal from the
there* are now living among the graduates British army is a terrible disgrace. The
240 lawyers, and 234 professors in colleges Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge,
and schools. In the war of the Rebellion members of Parliament, and officers of the
208 fought in the Union army, and 28 of army strove in vain to ward off the blow,
this number were killed or died in the war. but the Queen was decided, and thereby has
Over three hundred under-trmduatesnre now performed another official act which com-

mends her

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ChYHAMrsiooetucann'gf onolulu.
a noblo woman not only to her
subjects, but to all the pure-minded and
right-minded throughout the world. Royal
lips are reported to have said, referring to
Col. Baker's intercessors, "All the worse for
them. It is disgraceful that they should
as

have such a wretch for a friend. But it
never shall be said of me that I permitted
such a man to voluntarily leave my service.
Let him be dismissed with all the Ussgtttt*
that he has earned " The only mitigation
of the disgrace, if so it may be called, is that
he ranks in prison as "a first class criminal,"
and hence is not required to perform menial
labor while in prison, but may have his
wines and see his friend. Thus let those
suffer and be punished who insult women in
railway cars or elsewhere !
Sit Moon, our colporteur, returned
last week from a missionary tour around
Oahu, having been absent about three weeks.
He conversed with nearly two hundred of
his countrymen on the different plantations.
He was cordially received wherever he went.
He speaks quite warmly of Mr. Wilder's
cordiality, superintendent of the Knnlnea
plantation. He held service at the Bethel
last Sabbath evening, and will soon leave for

Hawaii.
Death of a Prominent Hawaiian.
The Honorable Paul Nahaolelua, died at Lahaina
on the 6th inst. after an illness of eight month?, in
the seventieth year of his age, he having been horn
at Kawaihae, Hawaii, on the llth of September,
180C. He began life as a schoolmaster at Kaupn,
Maui; subsequently he entered tbe High School of
Lah&inaluna, after leaving which he beoame successively District and Circuit Judge on Maui. For
several years be acted as Deputy for Governor James
Young Kanehoa, and succeeded tho latter on his

decease, in 1*352. He continued to bold the office of
Governor of Maui until 1874, when on tbe ooceasion
of His present Majesty, he was appointed Minister
of Finance. The infirmities of age anil tbe approaches of tbe disease to which he finally succumbed, caused his retiracy from offioe on the 81st
of October, 1874, stnoe which time be hr.s resided
at Lahaina. He leaves a widow, an adopted sod and
two grandchildren. Tbe deceased was a man of
sterling character, prompt, honorable and straightforward, and was highly esteemed for bis executive
ability by successive Kings, in whose councils he
held a prominent place. By his own positive directions bis funeral took place on tbe day of bia death,
without any of tbe pomp and display to wbiob Hawaiians (and others as well) are so partial, nnd bis
body, enclosed in a plain pine coffin, was deposited
in a vault in tbe cemetery of tbe Kpisoopal church
of Lahaina.—P. C. Advertiser, Sept. 26.

There is never a providence of God
but hnth either a mercy or n wonder in it.