WHALING VOYAGE. 
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the many kindnesses which I received at his hands 
during my stay at the island of Oahoo. 
On the morning after our arrival I commenced jour- 
neying about in search of adventures, and I found many 
objects of great interest to engage my attention ; and 
wishing the short description which I shall now give of 
these islands to be as interesting to the general reader 
as it is possible for me to make it, I have ventured to 
include in the following tale a description of the natural 
scenery of some parts of Oahoo, of the manners and 
customs of its people, their mode of expressing their 
ideas, the proper names of persons who are now living 
at that place, and the way in which many of their bad 
customs were abolished. 
KINAU AND TUANOA; 
A TALE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
A heavy gloom was upon the minds of the people of 
Oahoo, in consequence of the recent death of their king 
Hoapili; melancholy filled their hearts, wailings and 
lamentations of various kinds were heard over all parts 
of the island,— every grade mourned for the regal victim 
of death ; and men, women, and children were seen tear- 
ing their hair, wounding themselves with sharp-pointed 
weapons, tearing their flesh with sharks’ teeth, and 
breaking their own front teeth with stones, to convince 
each other of the acuteness of their sorrows ; and, above 
all, they prepared, as was their usual custom on such 
events, to offer up to the Great Spirit five human beings 
