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loft us. The next day the governor returned with 
us to the ship, and we remained nearly a week 
longer, waiting for the schooner, from which we 
had parted company soon after leaving Huahine. 
During this time we had frequent interviews with 
Kuakini; and though, in consequence of his fre¬ 
quent visits on board the vessels in harbour, we 
often saw him in a state of inebriation, there 
was a frankness and apparent sincerity, in his ex¬ 
pressions of desire after knowledge and improve¬ 
ment, that could not fail to interest us in his 
behalf. 
On the 9th of April we weighed anchor, and 
sailed for Oahu ; through the day we enjoyed the 
most delightful views of the sublime and magnifi¬ 
cent mountains of Hawaii, as we sailed slowly along 
its shores. We did not enter the harbour in 
Oahu until the 15th, when we found ourselves at 
day-break near the reef, and learned from some 
fishermen in a canoe, that the schooner was at 
anchor in the bay. We were afterwards boarded 
by Keeaumoku, the governor of Maui, and bro¬ 
ther of Kuakini, and soon received a pilot, who 
conducted our little cutter through the intricacies 
of the channel to the anchorage. We were not 
long before we proceeded to the shore. On our 
way, we met a canoe, in which the wife of Auna 
recognized a brother, who had left the Society 
Islands in the Bounty, when the mutineers took 
possession of the ship; we were also met by a 
boat, in which were the American consul, and a 
Frenchman of the name of Rives, who acted as 
secretary for the king. Messrs. Thurston, Cham¬ 
berlain, and Loomis, American Missionaries, to 
whom I had written from Hawaii, were also in the 
boat^ and cordially welcomed us. 
