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them to think on his love, and to love him in return; to 
obey him; to keep the Sabbath-day, by abstaining from 
labour, and meeting together to talk about what they 
had heard; to ask G od in prayer to teach them all his 
righteous will; and to send to Naihe their chief, or the 
missionaries at Oahu, for books, and a person to 
instruct them. 
Bidding them farewell, we directed our course towards 
the shore, and in about half an hour came to Honuapo, 
an extensive and populous village, standing on a level 
bed of lava which runs out a considerable distance 
into the sea. As we approached this place, the natives 
led us to a steep precipice, overhanging the sea, and 
pointed out a rock in the water below, called Kave- 
rohea. They seemed to regard both the place where 
we were, and the rock below, with strong feelings of 
superstition; at which we were not surprised, when 
they informed us, that formerly a jealous husband, who 
resided a short distance from the place, murdered his 
wife in a cruel manner with a stone, and afterwards 
dragged her down to the place where we stood, and 
threw her into the sea; that she fell on the rock which 
we saw, and, immediately afterwards, while he stood 
ruminating on what he had done, called out to him in 
the most affectionate and lamentable strains, attesting 
her innocence of the crime for which she had been mur¬ 
dered. From that rock, which is still called by her 
name, they said her voice was often heard calling to 
her husband, and there her form was sometimes seen. 
They also informed us, that her lamentations were 
considered by them as ominous of some great disaster; 
as of war, or famine, or the death of a distinguished 
chief. We told them it was in imagination only that 
