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VOYAGE TO THE 
In the afternoon a party of officers came ashore from 
the Blonde, and marked out the first cricket-ground that 
was probably ever used in the isles of the Pacific. The 
natives have, however, several games with balls, and one 
which is played with smooth flat circular stones, which are 
rolled dexterously along a narrow path made for the pur¬ 
pose ; they gamble at these. 
May 11.—This day the bodies of King Tamehameha 
the Second *, and his Queen Kahamalu, were removed from 
His Majesty's Ship Blonde, and deposited, with Christian 
rites, in a house in the capital of their own native dominions, 
which house is to serve as their sepulchre until a proper 
tomb can be constructed for them. 
An event so singular in the history of the world as this 
is, will deserve every detail which can be given: but first 
we may consider the extraordinary fate of these young 
people. Born in a country which had been for ages con¬ 
cealed by the ocean from the rest of the world, and which had 
only, in the reign of their grandfather, been made known to 
the civilized part of mankind, they were nurtured among 
* lolani was the favourite and probably the original name of this king. 
On attaining man’s estate, his father caused him to go through certain cere¬ 
monies, chiefly religious, which secured his succession to the crown; and on 
that occasion he took on him the name of Riho Riho: on his father’s death he 
took that of Tamehameha. 
