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while the decks were crowded with natives. The 
weather was unfavourable for getting under weigh 
till nearly daylight; and every person on board 
was completely drenched by the heavy rain that 
fell during the night. 
During the forenoon of the 3d, we drifted slowly 
to the northward, and about noon took in eight 
hundred dried fish, after which we made sail for 
Maui. The weather was warm, the wind light; 
and all on board being obliged to keep on deck, 
without any screen or shade from the scorching 
rays of a vertical sun, the situation was very 
uncomfortable. At three p. m. we took the chan¬ 
nel breeze, which soon wafted us across to the 
south-east part of Maui. 
As the shores of Hawaii receded from my view, 
a variety of reflections insensibly arose in my 
mind. The tour which, in the society of my com¬ 
panions, I had made, had been replete with 
interest. The varied and sublime phenomena of 
nature had elevated our conceptions of “ nature’s 
God the manners and customs of the inhabit¬ 
ants had increased our interest in their welfare; 
while their superstition, moral degradation, igno¬ 
rance, and vice, had called forth our sincerest 
commiseration. We had made known the nature 
and consequences of sin; spoken of the love of 
God ; and had exhibited the Lord Jesus Christ as 
the only Saviour, to multitudes who had never 
before heard his name, or been directed to worship 
the holy and living God, and who would probably 
never hear these truths again. We cherish the 
hope, that, under the divine blessing, lasting good 
will result, even from this transient visit. 
Many of the individuals we have met on these 
occasions, we shall in all probability meet no more 
