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benevolence of the deceased, and her own consequent 
loss. One passage was as follows 
Ue, ue, ua mate tuu Aru, 
Ua mate tuu hatu e tuu hoa, 
Tuu hoa i ta wa o ta wi, 
Tuu hoa i paa ta aina, 
Tuu hoa i tuu ilihune, 
Tuu hoa i ta ua e ta matani, 
Tuu hoa i ta vera o ta la, 
Tuu hoa i ta anu o ta mouna, 
Tuu hoa i ta ino, 
Tuu hoa i ta marie, 
Tuu hoa i mau tai awaru, 
Ue, ue, ua hala tuu hoa, 
Aohe e hoi hou mai. 
Alas, alas, dead is my chief, 
Dead is my lord and my friend ; 
My friend in the season of famine. 
My friend in the time of drought, 
My friend in my poverty, 
My friend in the rain and the wind, 
My friend in the heat and the sun, 
My friend in the cold from the 
mountain, 
My friend in the storm, 
My friend in the calm, 
My friend in the eight seas;* 
Alas, alas, gone is my friend, 
And no more will return. 
Other exhibitions of a similar kind I witnessed at 
Maui. After the death of Keopuolani, we frequently 
saw the inhabitants of a whole district, that had belong¬ 
ed to her, coming to weep on account of her death. 
They walked in profound silence, either in single file, 
or two or three abreast, the old people leading the van, 
and the children bringing up the rear. They were not 
covered with ashes, but almost literally clothed in sack¬ 
cloth. No ornaments, or even decent piece of cloth, 
was seen on any one. Dressed only in old fishing 
nets, dirty and torn pieces of matting, or tattered gar¬ 
ments, and these sometimes tied on their bodies with 
pieces of old canoe ropes, they appeared the most 
abject and w retched companies of human beings I ever 
saw. When they were within a few hundred yards of 
* A figurative term for the channels between the different 
islands of the group. 
