204 THE KING S DEPARTURE. 



vice of some Europeans, to make a voyage to 

 England, in the hope that these discontents 

 would subside during his absence. He confided 

 the administration of the government to the faith 

 ful Karemaku, and Kahumanna, the favourite 

 wife of his father, and in the year 1824 sailed 

 for England in a North American ship, accom 

 panied by his consort, Karemaku s brother Boki, 

 and some other persons of rank ; taking with 

 him twenty-five thousand Spanish piastres from 

 the treasure amassed by his father. 

 . Soon after the King^s departure, a regular re 

 bellion broke out in the island of O Tuai. Its 

 former ruler, Tamari, was dead, and his son, a 

 young man who had been brought up in the 

 United States of America, and had unfortu 

 nately fallen into bad company, was desirous to 

 recover for himself the independent dominion of 

 the island. Karemaku and Kahumanna im 

 mediately hastened thither with an army, and 

 on our arrival at Hanaruro we found the war 

 still raging at O Tuai, though it was supposed 

 to be near its close. The government of Wahu 

 was entrusted, during the absence of the Re- 



