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thirst after scriptural knowledge in Honoruru created 

 a belief among the missionaries that this feeling was 

 become general, and auxiliary schools were established 

 in different parts of the island, at which we were in- 

 formed every adult was required to attend several 

 times a day. 



While this demand upon their time was confined 

 within reasonable limits, the chiefs, generally, were 

 glad to find their subjects listen to instruction ; but 

 when men were obliged to quit their work, and to 

 repair to the nearest auxiliary school so frequently 

 during the day, so much mischief was produced by 

 loss of labour, and such ruinous consequences threat- 

 ened the country, that many of the chiefs became de- 

 sirous of checking it. Kahumana and her party, 

 however, persisted in considering it desirable, and in 

 supporting the missionaries ; while a powerful party, 

 at the head of which were the king and the regent, 

 exerted themselves to counteract their endeavours. 

 Thus dissensions arose very prejudicial both to the 

 cause of religion and to the interests of the country. 

 The chiefs lost their influence, the subjects neglected 

 their work, and hypocrisy on the one side, and intem- 

 perance on the other, became the prevailing errors of 

 the time ; the latter indulged in probably to a greater 

 extent, with the view of bringing ridicule on the 

 opposite party ; a scheme in which it is said that 

 Boki himself condescended to join. 



At length the regent and other chiefs determined to 

 break through this rigid discipline. The ten com- 

 mandments had been recommended as the sole law of 

 the land ; this proposition was obstinately opposed ; a 

 meeting was called by the missionaries to justify their 

 conduct, at which they lost ground by a proposal that 



