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ened the religious impressions they had received from 
the instructions of the missionaries. In their visit to 
England they were accompanied by a suite, which, 
though much less numerous than that which invariably 
attended their movements in their native islands, 
included nevertheless several individuals of rank and 
influence. Among the principal of these was Boki, the 
governor of the island of Oahu, and Liliha his wife; 
Kauruheimarama, a distant relation of the king’s ; Ka- 
kuanaoa and Kapihe, two of his favourite companions; 
the latter of whom was a man of an amiable disposition, 
and, considering the circumstances under which he had 
been brought up, possessed general intelligence. He 
had made a voyage to Canton, in China, for the pur¬ 
pose of acquiring mercantile information: and from the 
circumstance of his commanding the finest vessel be¬ 
longing to the king, a brig of about ninety tons burden, 
called the Haalieo Hawaii , (Pride of Hawaii,) he was 
sometimes called the Admiral, although that is an 
office to which there is nothing analogous in the pre¬ 
sent maritime system of the Hawaiians. With this 
individual, who died at Valparaiso on his return to the 
islands, and the others who survived the death of the 
king, particularly with Boki, the officers of the London 
Missionary Society had several interviews, and re¬ 
ceived the strongest assurances of their continued 
patronage and support of the Christian mission esta¬ 
blished in the Sandwich Islands. Many benevolent 
individuals had also an opportunity of testifying the 
deep interest they felt in the civil, moral, and religious 
improvement of their countrymen. 
While they were at Portsmouth, the late venerable 
Dr. Bogue, tutor of the Missionary Seminary at Gos- 
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