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operation ; and that, it is expected, he will submit to in a 
few days. At every visit we are more and more pleased 
with the good sense and intelligence of this man. He is 
one of the oldest of the chiefs, having been present at the 
death of Captain Cook, which disastrous event he perfectly 
remembers, and confirms the conjecture hazarded by Cap¬ 
tain King, that the whole affray was accidental, and as much 
lamented by the natives as by us. Of the respect, according 
to their notions, paid to his remains, and of their belief, that 
though once dead, he might, as their deity Orono, come again 
among them, Ivaraimoku’s testimony is now hardly necessary. 
This day our botanist and naturalist have begun their 
researches. Chiefs are coming in, or hourly expected, from 
all the neighbouring Islands, to assist at the approaching 
solemnity, and all wears the appearance of activity. Among 
those who have arrived are the national orator Nahi and 
his wife Ivapeolani. Ivuakini, commonly called John Adams, 
governor of Owhyhee, and brother of Kahumanu, came in 
his own schooner, the Boston, bringing with him Mr. Young, 
whose history is told by Vancouver, and whose constant 
attachment to his native country, though for twenty-four 
years absent from it, has doubtless been the cause of the 
great attachment of the Sandwich Island government to the 
English. 
