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port, accompanied by several Christian friends, visited 
Boki and his companions,—expressed his hopes that no 
unfavourable results would follow their visit to Great 
Britain, and offered up his prayers that God would 
preserve them, and bless their return to their native 
islands. Boki, together with his elder brother Karai- 
laoku, had invariably manifested his friendship towards 
the missionaries, by countenancing every effort to en¬ 
lighten the people; and, before he left the islands to 
accompany his sovereign, we had reason to hope that 
his own mind had received favourable impressions 
of that system of religion which it had been our 
object to unfold; but we were not without serious 
apprehensions that his visit to England might con¬ 
siderably weaken, if not altogether obliterate, those 
religious impressions, and originate others of a cha¬ 
racter totally different. In this respect, however, we 
have been most agreeably disappointed. The death 
of the king and queen appears to have produced a 
salutary effect on his mind; and, by letters recently 
received from the islands, I have been gratified to 
learn, that, since his return, he has taken a most 
decided stand in favour of Christianity, and has given 
evidence of its influence on his heart so uniform and 
satisfactory, that he has been admitted a member of 
the Christian church in Oahu, and in the general 
tenour of his conduct exhibits to his countrymen an 
example worthy of their imitation, materially contri¬ 
buting to the advancement of civilization education, 
and Christianity, throughout the islands. 
It is a pleasing fact, in connexion with the present 
circumstances of the nation, that not only Boki and 
his brother, the present regent, but almost every chief 
