CONVERSATION WITH THE GOVERNOR. 113 
fabrication of it shews both invention and industry: 
and whether we consider its different textures, its 
varied and regular patterns, its beautiful colours, 
so admirably preserved by means of the varnish, 
we are at once convinced, that the people who 
manufacture it are neither deficient in taste, nor 
incapable of receiving the improvements of civilized 
society.* 
During the forenoon, Mr. Harwood made an 
auger, to aid the well-diggers in boring the rocks. 
I walked with Mr. Thurston to see what progress 
they had made, and to encourage them to per¬ 
severe. The rocks, they said, were hard, and their 
progress slow, yet they were not discouraged, but 
hoped to find the work easier as they descended. 
After dinner, the governor entered freely into 
conversation on religious subjects, particularly 
respecting the resurrection of the body, the de¬ 
struction of the heavens and the earth at the last 
day, and the final judgment. After listening 
attentively to what was said upon these subjects, 
he inquired about the locality of heaven and hell. 
He was told that we did not know where the one 
or the other was situated, as none had ever 
returned from either, to tell mankind about them; 
and we only know, that there is a place called 
heaven, where God makes glorious manifestations 
of his perfections, and where all good men are 
perfectly happy; and that there is a place where 
wicked men will endure endless misery. He then 
said, “ How do you know these things ?” I asked 
for his bible, and translated the passages which 
inculcate the doctrine of the resurrection, &c. and 
* Specimens of the principal kinds of native cloth, ma¬ 
nufactured in the Sandwich Islands, may be seen in the 
Missionary Museum, Austin Friars. 
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