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the London Missionary Society were unable to 
gain access to them until they should have been 
introduced to his Majesty; and one of them, I be¬ 
lieve the king, died on the very day on which that 
introduction was to have taken place. The same 
circumstance also prevented many Christian friends, 
who felt interested in their welfare, from that inter¬ 
course with them, which, under the blessing of God, 
might have been expected to have strengthened 
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; Kakuanaoa and Ka- 
pihe, 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 purpose of acquiring mercantile information : 
and, from the circumstance of his commanding 
the finest vessel belonging to the king, a brig of 
about ninety tons burden, called the Haaheo 
Hawaii , (Pride of Hawaii,) he was sometimes 
called the Admiral, although that is an office to 
which there is nothing analogous in the present 
maritime system of the Hawaiians. With this in¬ 
dividual, who died at Valparaizo, 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 inter- 
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