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provement among all classes of these well -disposed Islanders, 
and entitle these chiefs to a very high rank among the bene¬ 
factors of their country. 
Nalii was a witness of Captain Cook’s death. He was 
quite a boy when it happened, but all the circumstances 
connected with it are deeply impressed on his memory. 
He pointed out to us, at no great distance from his house, 
the rock on which our excellent countryman fell, no less to 
the grief of the natives than to that of his own people. 
The morning after our arrival in Karakakua Bay, Kua- 
kini, governor of the whole Island of Hawaii, came on 
board to pay his respects to Lord Byron, and offer his ser¬ 
vices. This man has adopted the title of John Adams, in 
compliment to the president of the American Congress of 
that name. He is one of the largest of the chiefs, large as 
they generally are, being six feet three inches in height, and 
weighing twenty-six stone. His character appears to be 
less amiable than those of his brother chiefs, and has fre¬ 
quently caused uneasiness by its sullenness and love of con¬ 
tradiction. Kuakini and Nalii accompanied us to the royal 
morai in the neighbourhood, which had, till now, been con¬ 
sidered sacred. After rowing along the coast to the south¬ 
ward for a short time, we came to a pretty creek called 
Honaunau, where the morai, overshadowed with cocoa-nut 
