bes 
Notice of Hawait, (Owyhee,) and its Volcanic Regions, &c. 245 
thousand people had then recently assembled at an examination of 
schools; the mission house was crowded with earnest inquirers, and 
evil customs, and atrocious vices, were abandoned.* ong the 
whole coast no noisy drum of heathen carousal, or rude song of ob- 
scenity, is now heard—but in their place, the hum of the crowded 
school, the voice of thanksgiving and prayer, and, not unfrequently, 
the chanting of the morning and evening hymn. 
‘These changes, as Mr. Stewart justly observes, are best appreci- 
ated by those who have formerly known the inhabitants of this coast 
in all their rudeness, vice and ignorance. 
: Scenes and events in Oahu. 
- Oahu is two hundred miles from Hawaii, and as the ship (on the 
13th of October,) bore away from the latter, Mounakea, its highest 
‘Mountain, continued so long visible as to convince the observers that, 
if not eighteen thousand feet'according to the usual estimation, it is, 
still, among the highest mountains of the globe. : 
_ As they entered Honolulu, the.port of Oahu, a pilot conducted 
them into a harbor filled with whalers, and merchantmen, and with 
hative craft, exhibiting the activity of commerce, usual in civilized 
countries. Here are foreign consuls, resident European and Amer- 
can merchants, a dock yard, vessels on the stocks, and permanent 
stone buildings ; and the daily arrival of vessels has ceased to excite 
surprise. idicace ; ms sects & 
_ The meeting of Mr. Stewart with his missionary friends} and oth- 
ers, was of course, very interesting, and the courtesies of civilized 
life, practised between foreign powers, were not forgotten; eighty eight 
guns were exchanged between the Vincennes, on the one part, and 
on the other, the fort, and king Tamehameha’s finest vessel of war, 
which is kept in naval order in the centre of the port, with a long 
pennant banner and jack flying. ‘The presentation to the king Kaui- 
keaouli or Tamehameha Ill, was marked by many circumstances 
_— ca 
: ee ® “From many an humble dwelling now 
ily heard 
is daily 
Is dauy 
The voice of prayer 
And even in the hut of the child murderer 
: the father with his offspring dear, 
= Now bends the knee to God, and humbly asks 
- That he would bless them with a parent's love. 
Ry ‘Mr. Bingham » Mr: Ruggles, and others. 
Vou. XX.—No. 2. 32 
