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March 27 (Sunday). Mr. Baldwin, of Pennsylvania, a 

 missionary stationed near this place, preached to us to-day. 

 The entire crew formed his small but attentive and interest- 

 ed audience. The service recalled the Sabbaths of home, 

 the first I have experienced for seventeen months. The 

 good word spoken was chiefly of value, as it evidently carne 

 from a loving heart, sympathizing with us in our exposures, 

 temptations, and peculiar hardships, and encouraging us to 

 keep our faces to the right, though gales of temptation 

 might drive us from the true course; though we might 

 live far from goodness, said the preacher, still to keep up 

 the love of good. Never say to evil, be thou my good ; 

 never excuse the evil of your course, or love the evil in oth- 

 ers ; hate evil, though you may not do right to-day ; hate 

 evil, and the hope remains that you will, in the fullness of 

 God's mercy, live to cease from wickedness. After all, I felt 

 that it was not from ignorance that I was so wide of the 

 true path. After dinner he distributed some tracts, which 

 I fear failed to reach the witness within, and he invited the 

 crew to call at the mission for Bibles. 



On the 29th of March we hove up anchor, bound for Hon- 

 olulu, but the wind failing us, we had to let go again to save 

 the ship from drifting on a ledge of rocks at the southern 

 entrance of the harbor. We lay easy until the following 

 morning, when we got up the anchor, and by towing with 

 the four boats made an offing from under the lee of the 

 bluffj when a fresh breeze filled our sails, and we dashed 

 merrily on our course for Oahu. As we ran along to the 

 south of Maui we had a beautiful view of the volcanic peak 

 of Haleakala, " the house of the sun," so named because the 

 morning sun rose over its lofty summit to the populated 

 portions of the island. It is ten thousand six hundred feet 

 in height, and its summit is excavated by a great sandy cra- 

 ter some three miles in extent, and of vast depth. 



