JYolice of Hawaii) [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.* Along 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 OaJiu. 



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 

 native 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. 



The meeting of Mr. Stewart with his missionary friendsf 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 III, was marked by many circumstances 



' From many an humble dwelling now 



The voice of prayer 



is daily heard 



And even in the hut of the child murderer 



the father with his oflspring dear, 



Now bends the knee to God, and humbly asks 

 That he would bless them with a parent's love. 



i Mr. Bingham, Mr. Ruga,lcs, and others. 



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