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king lie proposed to adopt as the law, excepting in such 
cases as when a chief or landholder should infringe the laws ; 
then his lands should be forfeited, and himself tabooed *. 
Several chiefs at once exclaimed,—“ All the laws of the 
great Tamehameha were good; let us have the same.’' 
Boki next addressed the council. He said, that after 
the death of Bilio Bibo, he had made application to King 
George for the benefit of the country, on the grounds of the 
compact between Captain Vancouver and Tamehameha I. 
That King George consented to watch over the Islands, and 
if ships of war from other nations came thither to do mischief, 
he would drive them away. That King George advised 
them to abstain from war, and from vice. That whilst he 
was in England he had been edified by the attachment of 
the people to their king, and had learned to regard his own 
young prince the more by their example. He then paid a 
high compliment to the English, on account of the hospi¬ 
tality and kind treatment he and his companions had met 
with, and ended by assuring the assembly that, “ If the 
bowels of all the chiefs yearned as his did towards the young 
king, all things would proceed happily.” 
* Taboo, in this sense, has the force of excommunication : in former 
times he would have been sacrificed to the gods. It may best be translated 
devoted. 
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