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the Rev. Joseph Goodrich and the Rev. 
John Diell, both of which I am anxious to 
record here in testimony of the deep inte- 
rest felt by these gentlemen in the fate of 
our deceased friend: a feeling, indeed, 
which assuredly extended to all who knew 
MEMOIR OF THE LATE 
COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE MIS- 
SIONARIES OF HAWAII TO RICHARD 
CHARLTON, ESQ., HIS BRITANNIC MA- 
JESTY'S CONSUL AT THE SANDWICH 
ISLANDS. 
Hido, Hawaii, Jnly 15th, 1834. 
Dear Sir,—Our hearts almost fail us 
when we undertake to perform the melan- 
choly duty which devolves upon us, to 
communicate the painful intelligence of the 
death of our friend Mr. Douglas, and such 
riiculars as we have been able to gather 
respecting this distressing providence. 
The tidings reached us when we were 
every moment awaiting his arrival, and 
expecting to greet him with a cordial wel- 
come: but alas! He whose thoughts and 
ways are not as our's, saw fit to order it 
otherwise ; and instead of being permitted 
to hail the living friend, our hearts have 
been made to bleed while performing the 
offices of humanity to his mangled corpse. 
Truly we must say, that the “ ways of the 
Lord are mysterious, and His judgments 
past finding out!" but it is our unspeaka- 
ble consolation to know, that those ways 
are directed by infinite wisdom and mercy, 
and that though * clouds and darkness are 
round about Him, yet righteousness and 
. judgment are the habitation of His throne !” 
But we proceed to lay before you as full 
information as it is in our power to do at 
the present time, concerning this distress- 
ing event. As Mr. Diell was standing in 
the door of Mr. Goodrich's house yester- 
day morning, about eight o'clock, a native 
came up, and with an expression of coun- 
tenance which indicated but too faithfully 
that he was the bearer of sad tidings, in- 
quired for Mr. Goodrich. On seein him, 
he communicated the dreadful intelli 
| gence, 
that the body of Mr. Douglas had been 
MR. DAVID DOUGLAS. 
found on the mountains, in a pit exei 
for the purpose of taking wild cattle, 
that he was supposed to have been kil 
by the bullock which was in the pit, w 
the animal fellin. Never were our 
ings so shocked, nor could we credit the 
report, till it was painfully confirmed as w 
proceeded to the beach, whither his bo 
had been conveyed in a canoe, by the n: 
tive who informed us of his death. As 
walked down with the native, and mad 
further inquiries of him, he gave for sul 
stance the following relation :—that on th 
who brought the body down from t 
mountain came to his house at Laupasho 
it to this place in his canoe—the partic 
lars which he learned from them were: 
follows :—that Mr. D. left Rohala Point. 
last week, in company with a foreigner ( 
Englishman), as a guide, 
tops sene Roa v the North si e—that 
on the 12th he dismissed his guide, who 
cautioned him, on parting, to be very cate 
ful lest he should fall into the pits exu 
vated for the purpose mentioned above; 
describing them as near the place w 
the cattle resorted to drink—that soon 
Mr. D. had dismissed his guide, he went 
which he had forgotten, and that as he 
retracing his steps, at some iata ©” 
he tumbled into one of the pits m WP 
of the pit. At first they conjectured tha 
calf had fallen in; but on 
out the corpse, and hired the natives. 
price of four bullocks, which he 
mediately, to convey the body to 
shore. He himself accompanied 
