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and the way of salvation? They answered, Yes. 
I then addressed them for about twenty minutes 
on the first principles of the gospel. As soon as I 
began to speak, they all sat down, and observed 
perfect silence. Shortly after this service, we took 
our leave, and proceeded along the shore to Ka¬ 
li aluu ; where a smart shower of rain obliged us to 
take shelter in a house by the road-side. While 
resting there, the voice of wailing reached our 
ears. We inquired whence it came? and were 
informed by the people of the house, that a sick 
person in the neighbourhood had just expiredi 
We asked where the soul was gone to ? They 
answered, they knew not whither, but that it 
would never return. I spoke to them respecting 
the condition of departed souls, the resurrection 
of the body, and the general judgment which will 
follow; telling them afterwards of the love of 
Christ, who had brought life and immortality to 
light, and by his death secured eternal happiness 
to all that believe in him. They listened atten¬ 
tively, and continued the conversation till the rain 
abated, when we pursued our journey. We passed 
another large heiau, and travelled about a mile 
across a rugged bed of lava, which had evidently 
been ejected from a volcano more recently than 
the vast tracts of the same substance by which it 
was surrounded. It also appeared to have been 
torn to pieces, and tossed up in the most confused 
manner, by some violent convulsion of the earth* 
at the time it was in a semifluid state. There was 
a kind of path formed across the most level part 
of it, by large smooth round stones, brought front 
the sea-shore, and placed three or four feet apart. 
By stepping from one to another of these, we 
passed over, the .roughest-piece of lava we had yet 
