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Oahu, by whom I learned that Mrs. Ellis, though very 
ill, was better than she had been at some periods since 
my departure. 
I waited on Keopuolani, the king’s mother* whom I 
found ill; Karaimoku, Kaahumanu, Kalakua, and seve¬ 
ral other chiefs, were reclining around her, weeping. 
After some time, Karaimoku proposed that they should 
unitedly pray for her recovery, and his proposal w as 
acceded to. 
At four p. m. a corpse was brought to the place of 
worship, and, previously to its being interred, I gave 
an exhortation to a multitude of people. 
Towards evening, I visited the governor of the island, 
and also the king, who was then at Maui. The subse¬ 
quent voyage of the latter to Great Britain, accom¬ 
panied by his queen, and the melancholy event which 
terminated their lives while in London, excited consi¬ 
derable interest, and will probably be considered suffi¬ 
cient apology for a short account of them, although 
the event took place after my visit to Maui at this 
time. 
The late king of the Sandwich Islands w r as the son 
of Tamehameha, former king, and Keopuolani, daughter 
of Kauikeouli, and Kakuiapoiwa. He w r as born in 
the eastern part of Hawaii, in the year 1795 or 1796. 
The name by which he was generally known was 
Rihoriho, which was only a contraction of Kalaninui- 
rihoriho, literally, the heavens great black—from Ka 
lani, the heavens, nui, great, and rihoriho , applied to 
any thing burnt to blackness. On public occasions, he 
was sometimes called Tamehameha, after his father, 
though names are not always hereditary. Besides 
these, he had a variety of other names, the most com- 
