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planning, and that, having called his people together, he left 
the choice to themselves 
A day or two after the exhibition of the phantasmagoria, 
Lord Byron gave a great breakfast on board the Blonde, in 
honour of Ivaraimoku’s recovery. About thirty of the prin- 
* The letter is so curious, that we give a copy: 
Oahu, Saturday Evening. 
MY EORD, 
I take the liberty to address you a line, simply to acquaint 
you with the ground of a partial misunderstanding this evening. Though we 
do not regard Saturday evening as belonging to the Sabbath, yet the people 
have been instructed, both by Mr. Ellis and ourselves, to make preparation on 
Saturday for the proper observance of the Sabbath. A number of the chiefs 
have been accustomed of late to assemble, of their own accord, for social wor¬ 
ship among themselves on Saturday evening, and were assembling for that pur¬ 
pose this evening. This will, I hope, account for the apparent reluctance of 
some of them to receive your truly kind attentions: several asked our advice, 
and we told them expressly we would not detain them from the exhibition 
which you had kindly proposed to show them, but would have them act their 
own pleasure. 
This, I assured Mr. Ball, was the fact when he came to my house for Mr. 
Pitt. 
I have taken the liberty to make this explanation, in order to show you that 
we would studiously avoid any interference in any of your intercourse with the 
chiefs; and while I can assure you I entertain a high sense of the honour and 
the kindness which you and your honoured king, and highly-favoured country, 
have done this nation, I cherish the hope that those efforts on your part may, 
in connexion with our feeble exertions, be crowned with happy and complete 
success. You will therefore allow me the honour to be, 
My Lord, 
very respectfully and sincerely yours, 
To the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron. H. Bingham. 
