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beach mounts 42 guns of various calibres; that on the hill, be¬ 
hind, which is in fact only the mouth of the crater of a spent 
volcano, mounts eight. The bay, or roadstead, is capacious, 
but the bottom is rocky and uneven. The town appears to 
great advantage from the anchoring ground. Besides the 
houses and huts of the natives, there are several good stone 
dwellings built by Europeans, and timber houses, the frames 
of which have been brought from America and finished here. 
Our Sandwich Island shipmates, and their companions 
from Maui, immediately went ashore in the ship’s pinnace, 
and were received on the beach by the young king Iviau- 
kiauli, with his guard of honour all armed with muskets, 
queen Kahumanu in a car drawn by eight kanakas, and 
her sisters Opeea and Kalakua, the latter of whom was the 
mother of the late queen. The widow queens of Kiho 
Biho also attended, and advanced a little before the others, 
towards the landing-place, in front of a large frame house 
belonging to Kahumanu. As soon as the boat was near 
enough for the party in it to be distinctly recognised, the 
queens began a loud wailing lament, in which they were 
joined by Boki and Liliah, and minute guns were fired from 
the fort in honour of Biho Biho. 
The ceremonial of grief being thus fulfilled, the chiefs, 
accompanied by our surgeon, proceeded to the residence of 
