APPENDIX. 509 



Some of them, however, have told me of having known certain 

 things done by certain missionaries, viz., what Mr. Bingham said to 

 Kaahumanu, " I have seen some people made to serve at hard labour 

 on account of their having worshipped according to the Romish reli- 

 gion. Whose thought is that?" Kaahumanu said to him, "Mine." 

 Then he that spake to her objected quickly, saying, " It is not proper 

 for you to do thus, for you have no law that will apply." When he 

 said that, then Kaahumanu immediately replied to him with great 

 strength, " The law respecting idolatry ; for their worship is like that 

 which we have forsaken." Mr. Clark, also, and Mr. Chamberlain, 

 spoke to Kinau while Kaahumanu was yet alive, and objected to said 

 conduct, and afterward Dr. Judd. And at a certain time, Mr. Bing- 

 ham and Mr. Bishop disputed strongly with Kinau on account of the 

 wrong of punishing those of the Romish religion. 



And now in Kekauluohi's time, Mr. Richards disputed strongly with 

 Kekuanaoa, urging the entire abolition of that thing, and that kindness 

 should be bestowed on them, that they might be pleased, giving them 

 also an instructer to teach them the right way ; and thus also he said 

 to Kekauluohi and to me. 



And afterward, when Mr. Bingham heard by Mr. Hooper that 

 certain women were confined in irons at the fort, he went immediately 

 and made known to Kekuanaoa the wickedness of their confinement 

 for that thing, and when Kekuanaoa heard it, he immediately sent a 

 man, and afterward went himself to the fort, to set the prisoners free, 

 for their confinement was not by order of the chiefs. 



Should it be said by accusers that the American missionaries are the 

 authors of one law of the kingdom, the law respecting the sale of rum, 

 or if not, that they have urged it strongly, I Would say, a number of 

 captains of whale-ships commenced that thing, thousands of my own 

 people supported them, and when my chiefs saw that it was a good 

 thing, they requested me to do according to the petition of that company ; 

 and when I saw that it was really an excellent thing, then I chose that 

 as a rule of my kingdom. 



But that thing which you speak to me of, that they act with us, or 

 overrule our acts, we deny it ; it is not so. 



We think that perhaps these are their real crimes : 



Their teaching us knowledge. Their living with us, and sometimes 

 translating between us and foreigners. Their not taking the sword into 

 their hand, and saying to us with power, stop, punish not the worshippers 

 in the Romish religion. 



But, to stand at variance with, and to confine that company, they 

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