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tte legs. Aiter laying hiin out, our first ttouglit was to bury Hm within 

 Mr. Goodrich's premises ; but after we had selected a spot, and com- 

 menced clearing away the ground, doubts were suggested by a foreigner 

 who was assisting us, and who has for some time been engaged in taking 

 wild cattle, whether the wounds on the head could have been inflicted 

 by a bullock. Mr. G. said that doubts had similarly arisen in his mind 

 while examining the body. The matter did not seem clear— many parts 

 of the story were left in obscurity. How had Mr. Douglas been left 

 alone— without any guide, foreign or native ?— Where was John, Mr. 

 Diell's coloured man, who left Honolulu with Mr. Diell, and who, on 

 missing a passage with him from Lahaina, embarked with Douglas, as 

 we are informed by the captain of the vessel in which Mr. D. sailed from 

 Lahaina to Eohala Point, and then left the vessel with Mr. D. on the 

 morning of the 9th instant, in order to accompany him across the moimtain 

 to Hido ? How was it that Mr. D. should fall into a pit when retracing 

 his steps, after having once passed it in safety ? And if a bullock had 

 aheady tumbled in, how was it that he did not see the hole necessarily 

 made in its covering ? — These difficulties occurred to our minds, and we 

 deemed it due to the friends of Mr. D., and to the public, whom he had 

 so zealously and so usefully served, that an examination should be made 

 of the body by medical men. The only way by which this could be 

 effected, was by preserving his body, and either sending it to Oahu or 

 keeping it till it could be examined. The former method seemed most 

 advisable ; accordingly we had the contents of the abdomen removed, 

 the cavity fiUed with salt, and placed in a coffin, which was then filled 

 with salt, and the whole enclosed in a box of brine. Some fears are enter- 

 tained whether the captain of the native vessel will convey the body : 

 this can be determined in the morning. After the corpse was laid in 

 the coffin, the members of the Mission family and several foreigners 

 assembled at the house of Mr. Dibble, to pay their tribute of respect to 

 the mortal remains of the deceased, and to improve this affecting 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 aU who 

 were present. Aiter 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 natives 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 dis- 

 covered it, and go with them to the pit, and after making as full inquiries 

 as possible, to report to us immediately. So far as we can ascertain, 

 the guide is an Enghshman, 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-dav. By 

 these vessels we shaU apprise you of aU the information we can obtain, 

 and yet hope that the darkness which involves the subject may be removed. 

 Mr. G. has just returned from the vessel about to sail to-day. The appli- 

 cation to convey the remains of Mr. D. to Honolulu will, we fear, prove 



