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judicial both to the cause of religion and to the interests of the country. CHAP. 
The chiefs lost their influence, the subjects neglected their work, and 
hypocrisy on the one side, and intemperance on the other, became the ^.Jan^ 
prevailing errors of tlie time ; the latter indulged in probably to a greater 
extent, with the view of bringing ridicule on the opposite party ; a 
scheme in which it is said that Boki himself condescended to join. 
At length the regent and other chiefs determined to break through 
this rigid discipline. The ten commandments had been recommended 
as the sole law of the land : this proposition was obstinately opposed ; a 
meeting was called by the missionaries to justify their conduct, at which 
they lost ground by a proposal that the younger part of the community 
only should be obliged to attend the schools, and that the men should 
be permitted to continue at their daily labour. The king, whose riding, 
bathing, and other exercises had been restricted, now threw off all 
restraint, and appeared in public wearing the sword and feather be- 
longing to the uniform presented to him from this country by Lord 
Byron, which his preceptor had forbid him to use, under the im- 
pression that it might excite his vanity. I’he boys, following the ex- 
ample of their youthful sovereign, resumed their games which had been 
suppressed ; and among other acts which, though apparently trifling, dis- 
covered to the common people a spirit of opposition, and an earnestness 
on the part of the chiefs to overthrow the system that had been brought 
into operation, Koanoa, who had long been enamoured of a female chief, 
Kenow, whom Kahumana intended for the king (although she was old 
enough to be his mother), being refused the marriage ceremony by the 
mission, carried off the object of his desire, and took her to his home. 
This was the state in which we found Woahoo, and from it the 
missionaries might extract a useful lesson while imparting rehgious 
instruction to mankind, of the necessity of combining their temporal 
interests with those which relate to their prospects of futurity. 
It was supposed, from the manner in which Kahumana persevered 
in her support of the missionaries, that she was actuated by a deeper 
policy than appeared. Her jealousy at the investment of the sovereign 
power in the king and Boki was well known ; and it was surmised 
that she entertained hopes of creating a party which, in the event of 
