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qucntly engaged in affectionate conversation on reli¬ 
gious subjects, with some one or other of his people. 
Landing on the southern shore of Kearake’kua, Mr. 
Bishop and I passed through the villages of Kiloa, 
Waipunaula, and Kalama, inviting the people, as we 
went along, to attend a religious exercise. At the 
latter place we entered a large house, built by Karai- 
moku’s mother, Kamauokalani, but at present belong¬ 
ing to Kckauonohi, his niece. It was the largest in 
the place, and was ninety-three feet by thirty in the 
inside. Here about three hundred people collected ; 
and I preached to them from Psalm xxv. 8. After the 
service, they seemed desirous to enter into conversa¬ 
tion on what they had heard. One man stood up, and 
called out aloud, “I desire Jehovah, the good Lord, for 
my God ! but we have no one to tell us about him.” 
In the afternoon we sent the head man word to collect 
the people, that they might hear the word of God 
again. It rained, but a considerable number soon 
assembled in the large house, and I preached to them 
from 1 Tim. i. 15. Many kept arriving half an hour 
after the service had commenced, which induced me 
to recapitulate the discourse, yet they did not seem 
weary. When it was finished, the head man addressed 
the people, recommending them to attend to what they 
had heard, and proposed that henceforth they should 
abstain from all labour on the Sabbath, and pray to 
Jehovah and Jesus Christ; assuring them that such 
was his own intention. After answering several in¬ 
quiries, and encouraging them to adopt the proposal 
that had been made by the head man, we bade them 
farewell, and proceeded to another village. 
Two large heaps of ti root, (a variety of draccena, 
