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MISSIONARY TOUR 
his natural disposition, the circumstances and principles 
under which he had been brought up, his total ignorance 
of the gospel of peace, and the influence of a superstition 
which gave greater importance to war than any other 
human pursuit, we did not censure his complacency in 
exhibiting to us these instruments of death, but told 
him we hoped there would be no more war in the 
islands, as it was very affecting to think of numerous 
bodies of men meeting together with an intention to 
murder each other.—And we may cherish the hope that 
the principles of Christianity, when embraced by thu 
Hawaiians, will produce that cultivation of peace, and 
that aversion to war, which so happily prevail among 
the Society Islanders, and of which, since their recep¬ 
tion of the gospel, they have given so many illustra¬ 
tions. 
Between seven and eight, Miomioi, dressed in a blue 
jacket and trowsers, shoes and stockings, and a sailor’s 
red cap on his head, conducted us down to the village 
on the sea-shore, where he pointed out to us several 
places remarkable by their connexion with the early 
history of Tamehameha. 
Halaua is a large district on the north-east coast of 
the island, and, if not the birth-place of Tamehameha, 
was the land which he inherited from his parents, and, 
with the exception of a small district in the division of 
Kona, the only land he possessed in Hawaii prior to 
the death of Taraiopu, and the celebrated battle of 
Keei, which took place shortly afterwards. Tameha¬ 
meha seems to have been early distinguished by enter¬ 
prise, energy, decision of character, and unwearied per¬ 
severance in the accomplishment of his objects. Added 
to these, he possessed a vigorous constitution, and an 
