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heard; to ask God in prayer to teach them all his 
righteous will; and to send to Naihe their chief, 
or the Missionaries at Oahu, for books, and a 
person to instruct them. 
Bidding them farewell, we directed our course 
towards the shore, and in about half an hour 
came to Honuapo, an extensive and populous 
village, standing on a level bed of lava which runs 
out a considerable distance into the sea. As we 
approached this place, the natives led us to a 
steep precipice overhanging the waves, and pointed 
out a rock in the water below, called Kaverohea. 
They seemed to regard both the place where we 
were, and the rock below, with strong feelings of 
superstition; at which we were not surprised, 
when they informed us, that formerly a jealous 
husband, who resided a short distance from the 
place, murdered his wife in a cruel manner 
with a stone, and afterwards dragged her down to 
the spot where we stood, and threw her into the 
sea; that she fell on the rock which we saw, and, 
immediately afterwards, while he stood ruminating 
on what he had done, called out to him in the most 
affectionate and lamentable strains, attesting her 
innocence of the crime for which she had been 
murdered. From that rock, which is still called 
by her name, they said her voice was often heard 
calling to her husband, and there her form was 
sometimes seen. They also informed us, that her 
lamentations were considered by them as ominous 
of some great disaster; as of war, or famine, or 
the death of a distinguished chief. We told 
them it was in imagination only that she was 
seen, and that her supposed lamentations were 
but the noise of the surf, or the whistling of 
the winds. 
