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part of the island, shook it to pieces, or cursed it with 
barrenness, by inundating it with lava. You never 
did any good; and if I were the king, I would throw 
you all into the sea, or banish you from the islands 
Hawaii would be quiet if you were away.” 
This was rather unexpected, and seemed to surprise 
several of the, company. However, the pretended Pēl6 
said, “ Formerly we did overflow some of the land, but 
it was only the land of those that were rebels, or were 
very wicked people.* Now we abide quietly in 
Kirauea.” She then added, “ It cannot be said that 
in these days we destroy the king’s people.” She 
mentioned the names of several chiefs, and then asked 
who destroyed these? Not Pelē, but the rum of the 
foreigners, whose God you are so fond of. Their dis¬ 
eases and their rum have destroyed more of the king’s 
men, than all the volcanoes on the island.-—I told her 
I regretted that their intercourse with foreigners should 
have introduced among them diseases to which they 
were strangers before, and that I hoped they would 
also receive the advantages of Christian instruction 
and civilization, which the benevolent in those coun¬ 
tries by which they had been injured, were now anxious 
to impart: that intoxication was wholly forbidden by 
Jehovah, the God of Christians, who had declared that 
no drunkard should enter the kingdom of heaven. I 
then said, I was sorry to see her so deceived, and 
attempting to deceive others; told her she knew her 
pretensions were false, and recommended her to con¬ 
sider seriously the consequences of idolatry, and cease 
to practise her fatal deceptions; to recollect that she 
would one day die; that God had given her an oppor- 
* Broke the restrictions of the tabu, or brought no offerings. 
