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While we remained at Rio, the Sandwich Island chiefs 
seemed to take great pleasure in revisiting the places they 
had formerly seen with their king on their passage to Eng¬ 
land. On one occasion, when they were invited to dine 
with the English Consul-General, Liliali showed marks of 
a very affectionate disposition. On going into the room 
where, but a year before, a great entertainment had been 
given to Riho Riho, she burst into tears, and said it seemed 
as if she saw her lost friends again. The imperturbable 
good-nature and gentleness of the Sandwich Islanders have 
sometimes led us to fancy them unfeeling, but they are in 
truth very affectionate, though their state of society is not 
such as to have developed all the sensibilities that form 
the charm of civilized life. We had frequent occasion to 
remark the kindly disposition of the chiefs our shipmates. 
They often spoke with the greatest gratitude of the civility 
shown them while in England, and with affection, mixed 
with anxiety, of the friends and countrymen to whom they 
were returning. One night that an exhibition of phan¬ 
tasmagoria took place for their amusement, Boki stopped 
it, entreating that some of the pictures might be saved for 
his friends at Woahoo. 
December 18.—We left Rio de Janeiro and proceeded 
to St. Catherine’s to complete our provisions and water, 
