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HAWAII. 



[letter X. 



dependants, helping himself to poi from a calabash with his 

 fingers. He gave us for supper delicious river fish fried, boiled 

 kalo, and Waipio coffee with boiled milk. 



It is very annoying only to be able to converse with this 

 man through an interpreter; and Deborah, as is natural, is 

 rather unwilling to be troubled to speak English, now that she is 

 among her own people. After supper we sat by candlelight 

 in the parlour, and he showed me his photograph album. At 

 eight he took a large Bible, put on glasses, and read a chapter 

 in Hawaiian ; after which he knelt and prayed with profound 

 reverence of manner and tone. Towards the end I recognized 

 the Hawaiian words for " Our Father." * Here in Waipio there 

 is something pathetic in the idea of this Fatherhood, which is 

 wider than the ties of kin and race. Even here not one is a 

 stranger, an alien, a foreigner ! And this man, so civilized and 

 Christianized, only now in middle life, was, he said, " a big boy 

 when the first teachers came/' and may very likely have wit- 

 nessed horrors in the heiau, or temple, close by, of which little 

 is left now. 



This bedroom is thoroughly comfortable. Kaluna wanted to 

 sleep on the lounge here, probably because he is afraid of 

 akuas, or spirits, but we have exiled him to a blanket on the 

 parlour lounge. 



I. L. B. 



* The Lord's Prayer in Hawaiian runs thus :— E ko mako Makua i-loko 

 o ka Lani, e hoanoia Kou Inoa E hiki mai Kou auhuni e malamaia Kou 

 Makemake ma ka-nei honua e like me ia i malamaia ma lea Lani e haawi 

 mai i a makau i ai no keia la e kala mai i ko makou lawehalaana me 

 makou e kala nei i ka poe i lawehala mai i a makou mai alakai i a makou i 

 ka hoowalewaleia mai ata a hookapele i a makou mai ka ino no ka mea 

 Nou ke Aupuni a me ka Mana a me ka hoonaniia a man loa 'ku. Amene. 



