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which cannot be a bad one, since it commands 

 me to be just in all my actions." 



On the 8th of May, in the year 1819, Tame- 

 amea terminated his meritorious career, to the 

 great sorrow as well of the foreign settlers as of 

 his native subjects. His remains were disposed 

 of according to the rites of the religion he pro- 

 fessed. After they had remained some time in 

 the Marai, the bones were cleaned, and divided 

 among his relatives and the most distinguished 

 of his attendants. According to the custom of 

 this country, two persons had long before been 

 destined for interment with him at his death ; 

 but by his express desire this ceremony was dis- 

 pensed with. 



His eldest son and legitimate successor, Lio 

 Lio, or, asthe English call it, Rio Rio, — for there 

 is some difficulty in distinguishing between the 

 L and the R of the Sandwich Islanders, — now 

 assumed the government, under the name of Ta- 

 meamea the Second. Unhappily, the father's 

 talents were not hereditary ; and the son's pas- 

 sion for liquor incapacitated him for ruling with 

 the same splendid reputation an infant stale, 

 which, having already received so strong an 

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