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for its exhibition. As it was a public show, every body was ex¬ 
pected to be there; and if Messrs. Bingham and friends were 
not expressly invited, it was probably because it was supposed 
they would come if they did not imagine the amusement of 
too worldly a nature. They had certainly due notice of it; 
for that very morning one of the party had a long conversa¬ 
tion with one of the officers on the subject. How were 
we astonished, therefore, when all things being prepared, the 
company assembled, and among the rest, the little king and 
princess, notice was given, that on so near an approach of 
the Sabbath, prayer was a fitter employment! Accordingly, 
the two poor children were carried off in tears, and many of 
the chiefs and people followed to the missionary meeting. 
Karaimoku and Kahumanu however staid with us, and were 
extremely charmed with the exhibition, examining the room 
after it was over, and exhausting themselves in conjectures as 
to the manner in which it was produced. The intemperate 
indecency of this conduct on the part of the mission seems 
to have occurred to some of the more reasonable among them¬ 
selves. Mr. Stewart was with his wife, whose health is ex¬ 
ceedingly delicate, at some distance: a note was sent to him, 
we think by Mr. Bingham, to tell him what was going on : 
his sensible advice was, that the missionaries, with their 
