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till the morning of the resurrection. May we meet 
them then on the right hand of the Son of God! 
At sun-set we arrived off Morokini, but were 
shortly after becalmed. The current, however, 
was in our favour through the night, and at day¬ 
light on the 4th we found ourselves off the east 
end of the district of Lahaina, and about a mile 
distant from the shore. Many of the natives 
jumped into the sea, and swam to the beach, hold¬ 
ing their clothes above their heads with one hand, 
and swimming with the other. 
On landing I waited on Keopuolani, the king’s 
mother, whom I found ill; Karaimoku, Kaahu- 
manu, Kalakua, and several other chiefs, were 
reclining around her, weeping. After some time, 
Karaimoku proposed that they should unitedly 
pray for her recovery, and his proposal was 
acceded to. 
Towards evening, I visited the governor of the 
island, and also the king, who was then at Maui. 
The subsequent voyage of the latter to Great 
Britain, accompanied by his queen, and the 
melancholy event which terminated their lives 
while in London, excited considerable interest, 
and will probably be considered sufficient apo¬ 
logy 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 was the 
son of Tamehameha, former king, and Keopuolani, 
daughter of Kauikeouli, and Kakuiapoiwa. He 
was born in the eastern part of Hawaii, in the year 
1795 or 1796. The name by which he was gene¬ 
rally known was Rihoriho , which was only a con¬ 
traction of Kalaninui-rihoriho , literally, the hea¬ 
vens great black—from Ka lani , the heavens, nui, 
great, and rihoriho , applied to any thing burnt t<* 
