PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT. IQ3 



the younger part of the community only should be 

 obhged to attend the schools, and that the men should 

 be permitted to continue at their daily labour. The 

 king, whose riding, bathing, and other exercises had 

 been restricted, now threw off all restraint, and ap- 

 peared in public wearing the sword and feather be- 

 longing to the uniform presented to him from this 

 country by Lord Byron, which his preceptor had for- 

 bid him to use, under the impression that it might 

 excite his vanity. The boys, following the example 

 of their youthful sovereign, resumed their games, 

 which had been suppressed ; and among other acts 

 which, though apparently trifling, discovered to the 

 common people a spirit of opposition, and an ear- 

 nestness on the part of the chiefs to overthrow the 

 system that had been brought into operation, Koanoa, 

 who had long been enamoured of a female chief, 

 Kenow, whom Kahumana intended for the king (al- 

 though she was old enough to be his mother), being 

 refused the marriage ceremony by the mission, carried 

 off the object of his desire, and took her to his home. 



This was the state in which we found Woahoo, and 

 from it the missionaries might extract a useful lesson 

 while imparting religious instruction to mankind, of 

 the necessity of combining their temporal interests 

 with those which relate to their prospects of futurity. 



It was supposed, from the manner in which Kahu- 

 mana persevered in her support of the missionaries, 

 that she was actuated by a deeper policy than ap- 

 peared. Her jealousy at the investment of the sove- 

 reign power in the king and Boki was well known ; 

 and it was surmised that she entertained hopes of 

 creating a party which, in the event of the death of 

 Pitt, then daily expected, would forward her ambitious 



