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for such a divinity in such a place. But the largest native 
reptile is a lizard but a few inches long, and which cannot 
have any pretensions to the dignity of Akua. 
The thermometer indicated 70° at three o’clock on the 
top of the Parre. A few days after our ascent to the Parre, 
a party went, in a small schooner belonging to Boki, to visit 
the very picturesque village of Wainaii, thirty-six miles to 
the westward of Honoruru. It is situated at the mouth of 
a deep valley, which lies between two high mountains, near 
which Lieutenant Hergest and Mr. Gooch of the Daedalus 
were murdered*. 
These unfortunate gentlemen were victims to the na¬ 
turally irritated feelings of some of the natives, whose chief, 
when going on board of the Grace, an English West-India- 
man, had been wantonly fired upon, at the suggestion of an 
Englishman on board. This man, Isaac Ridley, had been in 
the service of various chiefs, and tiring of all, had resolved 
to escape from the Islands in the Grace; therefore, to con¬ 
ceal his flight, he prevailed on the captain to fire on the 
natives, and thus was the cause of the death of the officers 
of the Daedalus. 
Three different men were executed as their murderers, 
by the captains of different ships, in a manner so arbitrary, 
# See Vancouver. 
