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Kuakini, or John Adams, next rose and said, that he 
proposed that the young king should be placed under the 
especial guardianship of Karaimoku, and that he should be 
instructed by the missionaries in the Pule and Pala-pala, i. e. 
religion, and reading and writing; that he should live as 
separately as possible from the common kanakas, that he 
might escape the vices * which had stained the otherwise 
excellent character of his late brother, who had too often 
low people about him. These proposals were universally 
approved. 
Kapeolani then stated, that upon the lands belonging to 
herself and Nahi, in the Island of Hawaii, she had en¬ 
deavoured to establish laws prohibiting robbery, murder, 
drunkenness, adultery, and child-murder, and that, upon the 
whole, she had been tolerably successful. 
Kahumanu, who was lying on a mat spread with silk and 
velvet, raised her head and said, that she approved highly of 
such measures, and that she proposed that all the chiefs 
should adopt the same throughout the Islands, as fast as 
instruction should advance among the people. 
Lord Byron was now r called upon to speak, when he 
* Love of wine and gallantry. But Riho Riho was kind, merciful, and 
generous; anxious to promote the good of his people, willing to listen to 
Karaimoku and the older chiefs, but rather refractory with the missionaries, 
excepting in learning to read and write. 
