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Naihe. As we passed through it, we found tall 
rows of sugar-cane lining the path on either side, 
and beneath their shade we sat down to rest. A 
crowd of natives soon gathered around us; and 
after a little general conversation, we asked them 
who was their god ? They said, they had no god ; 
formerly they had many, but now they had cast 
them all away. We asked them if they had done 
well in abolishing them ? They said, Yes, for the 
tabu occasioned much labour and inconvenience, 
and drained off the best of their property. We 
asked them if it was a good thing to have no god, 
and to know of no being to whom they ought to 
render religious homage ? They said, perhaps it 
was, for they had nothing to provide for the great 
sacrifices, and were under no fear of punishment 
for breaking tabu ; that now, one lire cooked their 
food, and men and women ate together the same 
kind of provisions. 
We asked them if they would not like to hear 
about the true God, and the only Saviour? They* 
said they had heard of Jesus Christ, by a boy 
belonging to Naihe, who came from Oahu about 
two months ago ; but he had not told them much, 
and they should like to hear something more. I then 
requested them to sit down, and preached to them 
on the way of salvation by Jesus Christ. When 
the service was ended, many involuntarily ex¬ 
claimed, “ Nui roa maitai ! E ake makou i kanaka 
makou no Jesu , a i ora roa ia ia It is greatly 
good ! We wish to become the people of Jesus 
Christ, and to be saved everlastingly by him.—We 
recommended them to think on his love, and to 
love him in return; to obey him; to keep the 
Sabbath-day, by abstaining from labour; and, 
meeting together, to talk about what they had 
