THROUGH HAWAII. 
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they reclined. But to most of the questions that were 
asked, they said they could give no answer, as they 
knew nothing about it; none had ever returned in open 
daylight, to tell them any thing respecting it; and ail 
they knew was from visions or dreams of the priests. 
Sometimes, they said, when a recently liberated spirit 
arrived in the dominions of Mini, the Pluto of Hawaii, 
he (viz. Miru) would ask it what the kings above were 
doing and what were the principal pursuits of the 
people? and when he had answered, he was sent back 
to the ao mamma (state of day or light) with a mes¬ 
sage from Miru to them, to iho nui max ma net, (to 
descend altogether to this place.) The person so sent 
would appear to the priests in a dream, deliver his 
message, and then return to the lower regions. 
This account accorded with the report of the late 
Tamehameha’s appearing to a man in the division of 
Kona, of which we had before heard. A short time 
ago, a man in the southern part of Kona retired to rest 
as usual. In the middle of the night, it is said, he was 
conducted by a spirit to the lower regions, where he 
saw Tamehameha, who asked him by whom Hawaii 
was governed; and made several inquiries respecting 
his son, Rihoriho, and his other children. Tameha¬ 
meha then requested the man to return, deliver a cer¬ 
tain message to Kuakini, and also to Rihoriho the 
king, promising his favour if he obeyed, but threatening 
severely, should he fail to do as he had directed him. 
yellow, or black feathers, fastened on a kind of wicker-work, and 
resembling a cylinder twelve or thirteen inches in diameter. 
These, however, are only used on state occasions, when they are 
carried in processions instead of banners, and are fixed in the 
ground near the tent or house in which the king or principal 
personages may remain on such occasions. 
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