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mission among the Marquesas ; and as he intended 
touching at those islands on his return, it appeared a 
very favourable opportunity for accomplishing it, and 
at the same time visiting the American missionaries, 
the intelligence of whose embarkation for Hawaii had 
been previously received. Two pious natives, members 
of the church, and one of them a chief of some rank in 
the islands, were selected for the Marquesas ; and I 
accompanied the deputation on their visit to Hawaii, 
for the purpose of aiding in the establishment of the 
native teachers in the former islands, observing how the 
people wxre disposed to receive instructors, and obtain¬ 
ing such other information as might be serviceable in 
directing our future endeavours to maintain permanent 
missionary stations among them. 
In the month of March we reached the Sandwich 
Islands, and received a cordial welcome, not only from 
the American missionaries, but from the king and chiefs, 
to whom the generous present of the British government 
was peculiarly acceptable. Shortly after our arrival, a 
public council of the king and chiefs of Hawaii was held 
at Oahu. Anna and his companion, from Huahine, 
were invited to attend, and had an opportunity of 
answering the inquiries of the king and chiefs relative 
to the events which had transpired in the Society 
Islands, and of testifying to the feelings of friend¬ 
ship and esteem entertained by Pomare, and the 
rulers of those islands, much to the satisfaction oi 
the latter; who were convinced that the reports which 
had been circulated among them respecting the hostile 
intentions of the southern islanders, and the dangerous 
influence of Christian missions there, were totally 
groundless* 
