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views, and received the strongest assurances of 
their continued patronage and support of the 
Christian Mission established in the Sandwich 
Islands. Many benevolent individuals had also 
an opportunity of testifying the deep interest they 
felt in the civil, moral, and religious improvement 
of their countrymen. 
It is a pleasing fact, in connexion with the pre¬ 
sent circumstances of the nation, that almost every 
chief of rank and influence in the Sandwich 
Islands is favourably disposed towards the in¬ 
struction of the natives, and the promulgation of 
the gospel. A deep sense of the kindness of the 
friends, by whom the chiefs, who survived the king 
and queen, were visited at Portsmouth, appears 
to have remained on the minds of the Hawaiian 
chiefs long after their return to their native land ; 
for, when the Rev. C. S. Stewart, an American 
Missionary, was about to leave the Sandwich 
Islands for Great Britain, Boki gave him a special 
charge to present his grateful regards to the Bishop 
of Portsmouth . Mr. S. told him he was not 
aware that there was such a dignitary; but Boki 
said, Yes, there was, for he visited him, with some 
of his friends, when they were on the point of 
sailing from England. I at first heard that the 
late Dr. Bogue was the individual to whotn 
Boki referred; but I have since learned, that, in 
consequence of severe domestic affliction at that 
time, it is uncertain whether he did or did not; 
and that the Sandwich Island chief referred 
either to the Rev. C. Simeon, of Cambridge, or 
the Rev. J. Griffin, by both of whom he was 
visited. 
Among the letters I was favoured to receive from 
the islands, by the return of his majesty’s ship 
