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summons to Tuanoa in the usual form. This choice amazed the people, tor the 
best instead of the worst man had been selected. Kinau was mad with grief. 
She instantly determined on making the perilous descent of the Pele of Nuanu 
£see the plate], at the bottom of which, two thousand feet below the surface of 
the earth, lived Kelkuewa, the enchanter, respecting whom and his abode there 
were the most terrible tales in circulation. Yet, despite the cold, the darkness, 
the ghastly winged tenants of this gloomy abyss, and endless other evils, did the 
gentle Kinau brave these dangers. At length looking up, she beheld a venerable 
man descending the Pele; when he had reached the spot where she was bathing 
her bleeding feet in the cascade, he said,—“ Daughter of Kuakini, and beloved 
of Tuanoa, I am he whom you seek. I have watched and feel astonished at 
your strength, fortitude, and love. Arise, go to the valley of your fathers, and 
rest with thy neighbours, for I have seen a great Spirit, who, before to-morrow’s 
sun reachetb the valley of Nuanu, shall come, and save thy Tuanoa from the 
blood-consuming fire!’’ The enchanter then seized the hand of the enraptured 
girl, and saw her descend to the valley of her brothers. The morn of the dreadful 
tragedy arrived. After the first victim had been disposed of, Tuanoa was bound 
to the stake. He observed Kinau, but could not speak. The poor man was on 
the point of being executed, when his beloved, unable longer to restrain herself, 
rushed through the crowd, and threw herself on his neck. The lovers were 
quickly separated by the attendants, and the murder was proceeding, when the 
enchanter appeared among the people. He pointed to an object on the sea at a 
great distance. During the confusion, a stone was hurled by an unknown hand, 
which struck Nahi, and killed him in an instant, but the event scarcely received 
attention. The object on the ocean approached rapidly; it appeared larger every 
moment; fear and curiosity increased; occasionally its apparent wings shook ; 
then anon the whole mass seemed to stoop to the surface of the water. The 
chiefs, priests, and people went down to the edge of sea, the surviving victims 
and their kindred followed, and the prophecy was fulfilled : they were liberated 
by common consent. Never can poet or painter describe or represent the two 
enraptured lovers as they appeared walking together on the beach, having but 
u one soul in a divided body.” 
Reader! the great spirit 'which so rapidly approached, and was bringing to 
those islanders light to disperse their darkness, humanity and religion to abolish 
their cruelties, the arts and sciences to banish their ignorance—was the great 
spirit of our immortal navigator, Cook, who had just discovered those fertile 
isles, and whose ship had been observed by the enchanter on the previous evening, 
from the heights of the Pele of Nuanu ! 
In his description of a “South-Sea Whaling Voyage,” Mr. Beale gives 
further particulars relative to the interesting animal which forms the principal 
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