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la tabu , (sacred day,) and that Karaimoku had given 
orders for the people of Lahaina not to work on that 
day; but said, he was liana maru no , (just working 
secretly;) that was some distance from the beach, and 
the chiefs would not see him. I then told him he might 
do it without the chiefs seeing him, but it was prohi¬ 
bited by a higher power than the chiefs, even by the 
God of heaven and earth, who could see him alike in 
every place, by night and by day. « He said he did not 
know that before, and would leave off when he had 
finished the row of cloth plants he was then weeding! 
Mr. Stewart conducted an English service in the af¬ 
ternoon. The sound of the hura in a remote part of the 
district was occasionally heard through the after-part 
of the day, but whether countenanced by any of the 
chiefs, or only exhibited for the amusement of the com¬ 
mon people, we did not learn. 
At four o’clock we again walked down to the beach, 
and found about two hundred people collected under 
the kou trees; many more afterwards came, and after 
the introductory exercises, I preached to them upon 
the doctrine of the resurrection and a future state, from 
John xi. 25. The congregation seemed much interested. 
Probably it was the first time many had ever heard of 
the awful hour, when the trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead shall be raised, and stand before God. At 
the conclusion of the service, notice was given of the 
monthly missionary prayer-meeting on the morrow 
evening, and the people were invited to attend. 
Taua, the native teacher of Keopuolani, visited the 
family in the evening, and gave a very pleasing account 
of Kcopuolani’s frequent conversations with him, on 
the love of God in sending his Son, on the death of 
