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day, and improper for him to work ? The man 
answered, yes, he knew it was the la tabu , (sacred, 
day,) and that Karaimoku had given orders for 
the people of Lahaina not to work on that day 
but said, he was hana maril no, (just working 
secretly;) that it was some distance from the 
beach, and the chiefs would not see him. I then 
told him he might do it without the chiefs seeing 
him, but it was prohibited by a higher power than 
the chiefs, even by the God of heaven and earth, 
who could see him alike in every place, by night 
und by day. He said he did not know that before, 
and would leave off when he had finished the row 
of cloth-plants he was then weeding! 
Mr. Stewart conducted an English service in 
the afternoon. The sound of the hura in a remote 
part of the district was occasionally heard through 
the after-part of the day, but whether counte¬ 
nanced by any of the chiefs, or only exhibited 
for the amusement of the common people, we did 
not learn. 
At four o’clock we again walked down to the 
beach, and found about two hundred people col¬ 
lected under the kou-trees; many more speedily 
came, and, after the introductory exercises, I 
preached to them upon the doctrine of the resur¬ 
rection and a future state, from John xi. 25. The 
congregation seemed much interested. Probably 
it was the first time many had ever heard of the 
awful hour, when the trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead shall be raised, and stand before God. 
At the conclusion of the service, notice was given 
of the monthly Missionary prayer-meeting on the 
morrow evening, and the people were invited to 
attend. 
Taua, the native teacher of Keopuolani, visited 
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