"Evening. A sail was descried this afternoon, in the channel between Ranai and Morokai: soon afterwards, five guns, fired in rapid succession-the private signal of Riho-Riho-announced the approach of his majesty. The brig came to an anchor just as we had finished evening worship with Keopuolani and Mr. Richards and myself, accompanied Kekauonohi and Nahienaena to the beachalready thronged by common people-to receive him. He landed in a small boat, with a single chief, and saluted us in a polite and friendly manner. After embracing his queen and the princess, he took one under each arm, and hastened up the beach. The parting of the mother and son, when we left Honoruru, had interested us so much, that we felt desirous of witnessing their first interview, after a month's separation. The chiefs had assembled, and were formally seated on their mats, in a large circle, before the tent of Keopuolani, waiting the approach of their monarch. He entered the circle opposite to his mother, and where Wahine-pio, the sister of Karaimoku, and mother of his youngest queen, was seated. Dropping on one knee, he saluted her on which, she burst into tears-and springing from her mat, led him to that of his mother. He knelt before her gazed silently in her face for a moment-then pressed her to his bosom, and placing a hand on each cheek, kissed her twice in the most tender manner. The whole scene was quite affecting: I scarce ever witnessed an exhibition of natural affection, where the feelings were apparently more lively and sincere. The king is a fine looking man, and graceful in his manners; and, while gazing on him, the queen's heart seemed to float in her eyes, and every feature told a mother's joy.' "Tuesday, 24. On going to the beach, as usual, this morning, at sunrise, we found every indication of a scene of revelry just ended. Riho-Riho had taken possession of his mother's establishment ; and, instead of the orderly and pleasant group which had uniformly before been waiting our arrival, we saw the ground every where strewn with the bodies of men and women, who, evidently, had sunk unconsciously to sleep, amid the vapours of the bottle. Several empty liquor cases of brandy, gin, and rum-stood on a large mat, in front of the tent in which the king was sleeping; and bottles, drained of their contents, were dispersed widely around. "None of our former party, chiefs or people, were to be found. At eleven o'clock, we repeated our visit :-but all was riot and debauchery, and, not meeting with any of our pupils, we quickly turned from so melancholy a scene of licentiousness and intoxication. "At sunset, we again went to the beach. The wild and heathenish sounds, of the song and the dance, were distinctly to be heard, long before we reached the place of our customary worship: and the tent of the king was still the centre of revelry. "On arriving near the crowd, Taua, the private chaplain of the queen, quickly approached us, saying, he had been sent to await our arrival, and to inform us, that Keopuolani would attend prayers at the residence of her daughter, to which she had removed. This was a pleasing message to us; and our satisfaction was greatly increased, on entering the ranai of the princess, to find the whole of our pupils assembled-even Kekauonohi, the young queen. "Never can we forget the appearance of Keopuolani. The countenance and manner of no pious Christian mother could have manifested more real anguish of spirit, in witnessing the dissipation of a beloved son. As we approached, her eyes filled with tears, and, with a voice almost inarticulate from emotions ready to overpower her, she lifted her hand, and pointing to the scene of intemperance and debauchery, exclaimed, pupuka! pupuka - Shameful! oh shameful!'-and throwing herself backward with a convulsive sob, hid her face and her tears in a package of tapa, against which she was reclining. : "Our hearts were deeply touched and our spirits at once assumed an elasticity, that caused them to rise to a height proportionable to the depression under which they had laboured. With an excitement of hope never known before, we commenced the evening sacrifice. Taua seemed to partake deeply in our feelings, and exercised a spirit of prayer, that would have elevated hearts far more insensible than ours were at the time. While he affectionately presented the queen herself before the throne of God, and fervently besought the outpourings of the Holy Spirit upon her, we could scarce resist the belief, that the strong princi ples of moral rectitude, which she had uniformly manifested-and which were then so strikingly displayed-were but the dawnings of that light, which would securely guide her immortal spirit to the realms of everlasting day and touched with sympathy-as for a fellow-child of God-we were constrained to mingle our tears with those of the parent, while he proceeded most humbly and importu nately to supplicate the forgiveness-reformation-and eternal redemption of her Before bidding her good night, she earnestly begged us to pray for the king; and on our replying that she must also pray for him, she said, she constantly did, but that they both needed our prayers." son. : A short time after this affecting incident, his mother died. Riho-Riho was present, and behaved with great propriety. After the notice of this event, the Journal proceeds. "Scarce ever were my feelings more deeply wounded, than they have been this evening. During the fortnight of Keopuolani's illness, the king was perfectly sober. His heart seemed touched by the exhortations of his mother, and open to the persuasions of the Missionaries, to forsake every evil habit, and seek the favour of God. His sensibilities were greatly excited by her baptism, death, and burial : and he resolved to abandon the habit of intemperate drinking. Apprized of this, some of the foreigners here at present, determined to achieve a triumph over the Mission, as they consider it, by the defeat of an object so desirable and so important. "With this view, two or three successive dinner parties were made by themone on the Sabbath-which Riho-Riho was importunately urged to attend : but anticipating the design, he perseveringly declined. Other attempts were made to draw him into their company, but all proved unsuccessful till this morning, when he was induced to visit one of the ships, under the pretence, on the part of his seducers, as we are informed, of showing some remarkably beautiful specimens of goods. After being some time on board, refreshments of various kinds, and liquors, were served; but of the last the king refused to partake. A bottle of choice cherry brandy was then produced as a liqueur incapable of intoxicating-and which, having never seen before, he was led to taste-and to taste again, till he requested a bottle of it to take on shore: a favour quickly granted. The result has been, that, as Mr. Ellis and myself went down the beach at sun set, we saw the king seated in front of his tent, under the full excitement of liquor-Pauahi, in a disgusting state of drunkenness, by his side-a woman in a similar condition, and almost naked, dancing and singing before them—and twenty or thirty others, of both sexes, with cases of gin and rum at hand, beginning a dreadful revel. "As we approached the circle, Riho-Riho immediately said to us, in a kind, but self-condemning tone Why do you come here?'-to which Mr. Ellis replied - we have come to express our sorrow for the sad condition you are in, and to reprove these, your guilty people, for encouraging you to destroy yourself, both body and soul'-upon which, he dismissed us with the answer-You are good men-you are my friends-but eia no ke wahi o Debelo!-this is the place of the devil!-and it is well for you not to stay here!' The individual, who has been thus successful in his end, has since boasted, not only that he has made the king drunk, but that he will keep him so, if he is obliged to send a vessel to Oahu expressly for more cherry brandy for the purpose! "But the sorrow of the evening did not rest here. At the request of the chiefs, we have attended prayers with them, at the establishment of Kaahumanu, every evening about eight o'clock. On going down, for this purpose, to night, we saw a considerable collection of persons gathered round Governor Adams, as he was seated in the open air, surrounded by servants with torches. The bright glare of these presented the party in strong light to us, while we, ourselves, were shrouded by it, in double darkness. In front of the governor was one foreigner upon his knees, making a mimic prayer, in imitation of a Missionary : while another was writing, in large letters on a slate, and presenting to him for perusal, some of the basest words of our language! As may be supposed, the recognition of our presence threw the company into some confusion; and one person hastily brushed his hand over the slate, but not till the indignant eye of Mr. Ellis fully told a knowledge of its disgusting contents!" Thus far, however, the persons of the missionaries had been sacred. This was not, however, the case, when the progress of religious knowledge had elevated the chiefs to a higher degree of morality. The true reason of the hostility to the missionaries, was at once revealed, when the chiefs prohibited females from going on board the ships in the harbour, for the purpose of prostitution. The opposition then broke out in acts of personal violence, which, we regret to say, have been several times repeated. To some of the particulars of the first of these outrages, Mr. Stewart was himself an eye-witness. His account is in these words. "The Mission House had been removed from the place of its original location; but familiarity with every spot, enabled me easily to grope my way through the luxuriant plantations by which it is now surrounded. But how great was my astonishment, at the peculiar circumstances in which I found our inestimable friends, Mr. and Mrs. Richards. Instead of being permitted, unobserved, to break their slumbers by the salutations of friendship and affection, how was I surprised to meet, at my first approach to the house, the presented bayonet, and to hear the stern challenge of the watchful sentry- Who goes there ?'—and when assured that it was a friend-how inexplicable to my mind the fact of receiving the cordial embraces of my brother-not in the peaceful cottage of the Missionary—but in the midst of a garrison, apparently in momentary expectation of the attack of a foe; and to find the very couch, on which was reclining one, who to us has been most emphatically a sister, surrounded by the muskets and the spears of those, known to the world only by the name of savages! "My first thoughts were, that a revolt of the island, against the general government, had taken place, in which our friends had been seized, and were guarded as captives-or that some formidable party of unfriendly natives had risen with the determination of destroying them, and from whom they were protected by the higher chiefs-but, as soon as an explanation could be given, I learned that their peril was not from the heathen, but from the degenerate sons of a civilized and Christian country! The seamen of a large British ship, at anchor at Lahaina-exasperated at the restraints laid on their licentiousness, through the influence of the Mission-had carried their menaces and open acts of violence, against Mr. and Mrs. Richards, to such an extent as to cause the chiefs to arm a body of men, and defend them at the hazard of life and at that very hour, three armed boats' crews-amounting to near forty men-were on shore, with the sworn purpose of firing their houses, and taking their lives, before morning! "Only two days before, after a succession of fearful threats and gross insults, the same party-countenanced and upheld by their captain and officers, and armed with knives and pistols-had landed under the black flag of death, and surrounded the Missionary enclosure-then unprotected-offered life to our friends, only on condition of their retracting their instructions to the people, founded on the Seventh Commandment. The firmness, with which they were met by Mr. Richards, only made them doubly infuriate; and, as they seemed ready to fall upon him, to execute their horrid threats, Mrs. Richards, with the spirit of a martyr, rushed between them and her husband, exclaiming, My only protection is in my husband and my God-I had hoped, that the helplessness of a female, surrounded only by heathen, would have touched the compassion of men from a Christian land-but, if such cannot be the case, know that I stand prepared to share the fate of my husband! When I left my country, I took my life in my hand, not knowing when I might be called to lay it down--if this is the time, know, that I am prepared-sooner than disgrace the character I sustain, or dishonour the religion of my Master, by countenancing in the people we have come to enlighten, a course of conduct at variance with the word of God-to bid you strike the bosom, bared to the blow! For a moment, the heroism of a refined and lovely woman appeared to shake the firmness of their purpose, and they retired from the ground: but it was only to return, with a more relentless determination-and the interference of the natives took place in time, barely to rescue the lives of their teachers, at the hazard of their own. So resolute were they, however, in the defence, when once commenced, that three thousand men were armed, and in readiness to seize the ship, and to make prisoners of her crew, should another outrage of the kind be attempted." This was in the autumn of 1825. In the autumn of the succeeding year, a similar transaction took place. The crews of some English and American whale ships, on this occasion, landed at Lahaina, threatening to kill Mr. Richards, because through his influence a stop had been put to prostitution. As he was absent, they went in a body to his house to demolish it, and they would have accomplished their purpose, had it not been guarded by friendly natives. They however took away his hogs and fowls, as their booty. A Mr. Butler, a resident at Lahaina, performed the honourable office of directing this party, and pointing out the premises and property, to the sailors. The women all fled to the mountains. For several days, the sailors prosecuted their search through the village for women, breaking into houses, and taking away the property of the unoffending inhabitants. They bore with fortitude the spoiling of their goods, but they yielded not an inch to the demands of the ships; and the sailors, at last abandoning their search, sailed for O-a-hu, in hopes of getting women there. Öf Mr. Stewart's book, we have already expressed the most favourable opinion, in general terms. We can recommend it with confidence, to every man of literary taste and genuine sensibility, and to the lovers of natural science. It is as entertaining as instructive; being stored with information not less curious than useful, concerning the history, condition, customs, and superstitions of the natives of the Islands. The vein of warm piety which pervades it, is connected with truly refined sentiment and liberal knowledge. Several of the first chapters are occupied with the author's voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and though descriptions of sea voyages be usually, and might seem inevitably, trite and monotonous, yet the natural and happy manner in which the author's new impressions and casual emotions are stated, communicates to this, a peculiar fresh attraction and excellence. We shall take two or three passages from the record of the long voyage as specimens. 66 Evening. A violent squall has just swept over us; and, before our sails could be secured, the lee-bulwarks of the ship were nearly under water. Every thing had an aspect more like that of the gale in the gulf stream, than at any time since. The wind rushed so loudly through the rigging, as to require a full exertion of lungs in the captain and mates, to cause their orders to be heard, and the rain poured in torrents. Both wind and rain continue, in an abated degree, and the ship is still reefed down, so as, in sea-phraseology, to be all snug.3 "There is something in this state of things, that produces a peculiar effect on my mind, and one, which you may be surprised to hear me say, is, that of enjoyment. The low and scudding clouds-the driving rain-the sullen heavings of the ocean, and the roaring of the water at the prow-the rapidity with which we dash from wave to wave, while our lee-gunnels are almost buried in the deep -though they give to all without, the aspect of suffering and of danger, induce a musing mood which I have found delightful. Every thing on deck too, has a like tendency-nothing generally is heard, but the creaking of the masts, and yards, and the rattling of the cordage, while the officers, in their watchcoats, and tarpawling caps, stand at their respective posts, and the sailors shelter themselves, from the worst of the storm, under the lee of the boats or weather-bulwarks of the ship." "All hands have been actively engaged to-day, in putting the vessel in trim for Cape Horn. The upper yards, masts, and rigging, have been sent down: and the ship drest, in a complete suit of new sails of the stoutest texture. These preparations look formidable; but seem justified, by the general aspect of the wea ther. Just before night, there was a very peculiar exhibition, on sea and sky. For half an hour before and after sunset, the whole heavens, except a quarter of a circle in the west, which was perfectly clear, were covered by dense, and unusually lowering clouds. The elevation of the unshaded arch, was not more than five degrees; and under it, on the farthest horizon, a stretch of vapour extended, so greatly resembling a distant coast, that, had we not known it to be impossible, not all the power of vision, aided by our sea-glasses, could have satisfied us, that it was not the American Continent. "The rays of the sun, entirely shut out by the heavy canopy above, came to us, only in splendid reflections from this fairy realm; and presented a succession of mountains, and groves, and spires, and turrets, and towers, and, even steamboats and light-houses, all, in the richest colouring, and glittering with silver. For some minutes, the splendour of the sight momentarily increased, drawing from us, enthusiastic admiration : when, the sun, suddenly, burst from behind its dark drapery, and, in an instant, the whole mass of clouds, over and around us, were changed, in all their ponderous forms, from the blackness of night to the brightest crimson; while the sea, before shrouded as in a funeral pall, gleamed with the mingled reflections of purple and gold. The transition seemed one of enchantment; but our admiration was not unaccompanied by emotions of awe. lowness and thickness of the clouds, made the reflections of their colour so strong, that the sun, though perfectly unobscured, glared with a fiery and unnatural light; which, as it gradually faded into the sickly shades of an eclipse, marked the sails and rigging, and every countenance, with the hue of death. Minds, that soar above the power of superstition, might have felt a momentary uneasiness, at such unusual omens; and, while sea-birds, which delight only in the drivings of the storm, screamed round our masts above, or silently gazed at us, as they tossed on the waters below; I could but exclaim 'Dark gathʼring clouds, involve the threat'ning skies ;— They come the Spirits of the tempest come !"" The "Friday, April 25. The appearance of Hawaii, this morning, was exceedingly beautiful. We were within a few miles of the shore; and the whole of the eastern and northern parts of the island were distinctly in view, with an atmosphere perfectly clear, and a sky, glowing with the freshness and splendour of sunrise. When I first went on deck, the grey of the morning still lingered on the lowlands, imparting to them a grave and sombre shade; while the region behind, rising into broader light, presented its precipices and forests in all their boldness and verdure. Over the still loftier heights, one broad mantle of purple was thrown; above which, the icy cliffs of MOUNA-KEA, at an elevation of 17 or 18,000 feet, blazed like fire, from the strong reflection of the sunbeams, striking |