SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
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April 2d.—We passed the westernmost of the Galla- 
pagos, Wenman, and Culpepper’s Islands, and then shaped a 
direct course for the Sandwich Isles. The thermometer 
has been for some days at 87° and 88° in the shade. 
Sunday, April 3d.—The chief Boki, being the only one 
of the Sandwich Islanders on board who had been baptised, 
took the sacrament with us. He had been admitted into 
the Christian church, together with his brother Karaimoku, 
in his own country, by the chaplain who attended Captain 
Freycinet in the Uranie on his voyage round the world. 
Sunday, May 1.—Ivuinee or Liliah, and the other Sand¬ 
wich Island chiefs, probably induced by the example of 
Boki, and anxious to carry home with them every possible 
mark of civilization, earnestly desired to have the ceremony 
of baptism performed. They had previously been instructed 
in some of the main doctrines of our holy faith, and the 
moral precepts and practice of Christians explained; and 
though it is probable that their own conduct may still bear 
a taint of its original savage heathenism, the baptism of 
such high chiefs may prepare the way for that of many of 
their countrymen. They received that sacrament accord¬ 
ingly at the hands of our chaplain, the Eeverend R. Blox- 
ham. Lord Byron stood sponsor, and gave them the same 
names at the font as they had borne from their birth. Hence 
