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cession to the place of worship, where thanksgivings 
were presented to God, for the merciful preservation of 
those who were thus privileged to meet again, and 
supplications were made that the afflicting dispensa¬ 
tion, which all so deeply felt, might exert a salutary 
influence in the minds of the surviving chiefs, and the 
sorrowing nation at large. 
Karaimoku, the late prime minister, and present re¬ 
gent of the islands, then arose, and said, “We have 
lost our king and queen, they have died in a foreign 
land ; we shall see them no more; it is right that we 
should weep, but let us not entertain hard thoughts ol 
God. God has not done wrong . The evil is with us, 
let us bow under his hand; let all amusement cease ; 
let our daily avocations be suspended ; and let the na¬ 
tion, by prayer, and a cessation from ordinary pursuits, 
humble itself before God fourteen days.” Before the 
assembly separated, Boki stood up, and, in a brief out¬ 
line of the voyage, narrated the most prominent events 
that had transpired since his departure from the islands, 
calling their attention in particular to the suitable and 
important advice he had received from his majesty the 
king of Great Britain, in an audience with which he was 
graciously favoured : viz. To return to his native coun¬ 
try, attend to general and religious instruction himself, 
and endeavour to enlighten and reform the people.— 
The peculiar circumstances of the people at this time, 
the increased satisfaction they had for some time felt in 
attending every means of instruction within their reach, 
and the pleasing change in favour of religion, which 
many had experienced, rendered this recommendation, 
so congenial to their feelings, from a source so distin¬ 
guished, unusually acceptable. A deep and favourable 
