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providence to their own good. Prayers 
were offered, and a brief address made; 
and we trust that the occasion may prove 
a lasting blessing to all who were present. 
After the services were concluded, the 
body was removed to a cool native house, 
where it was enclosed in the box. 
16th. As neither the guide nor any na- 
tives have arrived, we have employed two 
foreigners to proceed to the place where 
the body was received on the sea-shore, 
with directions to find the persons who 
discovered it, and go with them to the pit, 
and after making as full inquiries as pos- 
sible, to report to us immediately. So 
ar as we can ascertain, the guide is an 
Englishman, a convict from Botany Bay, 
who left a vessel at these islands some 
years ago. He has a wife and one child 
with him, and to this circumstance in part 
may be attributed his delay. There are 
two native vessels in port, besides the one 
about to sail to-day. By these vessels we 
shall apprise you of all the information we 
can obtain, and yet hope that the darkness 
which involves the subject/may be removed. 
r. G. has just returned from the vessel 
about to sail to-day. The application to 
convey the remains of Mr. D. to Honolulu 
will, we fear, prove unsuccessful, as the 
cargo is already taken in, consisting of 
wood, canoes, food, &c. It is barely pos- 
sible that a consent may yet be obtained ; 
but if not, you must be so kind as to dic- 
tate what course is to be pursued. Should 
. you deem it advisable to come up in per- 
son, we think that the body will be in such 
a state of preservation, as will admit of its 
being examined upon your arrival. Mean- 
while, we shall take all possible pains to 
procure information. 
of Mr. D 
the Englishman spoken of 
before, has arrived, and our minds are 
greatly relieved, as to the probable way in 
which the fatal event was brought about, 
He states, that on the 19th instant, about 
. ten minutes before six in the morning, Mr. 
_ D. arrived at his house on the mountain, 
MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. DAVID DOUGLAS, 
and wished him to point out the road, 
go a short distance with him. Mr. D.y 
then alone, but said that his man had 
out the day before (this man was p 
John, Mr. Diell’s coloured man) Aft 
taking breakfast, Ned accompanied Mr. 
about three quarters of a mile, and 
him, after expressing an anxious wish i 
reach Hido by evening, thinking he c 
find out the way himself. Just before 
eft him, he warned him particularly ¢ 
three bullock-traps, iles and 
half a-head, two of them lying directl 
. Trap empty, covered. 
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Ned then parted with Mr. D. and 
back to skin some bullocks bu : 
previously killed. About eleven 9 
two natives came in pursuit 0 
was dead; that 
approaching this pit, on 
ing some of the clothing on 
claimed Lole, but in a mome p 
discovered Mr. D. in the cave io 
under the beast’s feet. They ™™ 
hastened back for Ned, who, le& 
work, ran into the house for à — 
and hide; and on arriving at the | 
the bullock standing upon pot 
