Show r brads ar iram cm a letter ietter written y alter bar or 7 SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSIONS ballu baliu 13 1 I y july ath r 1864 0 9 0 c ita its not cot quits quite turee three montha months bince since elders E ders bexson and snow iett us t since then thea we bal have been very busy tra tri traveling from place ta to alace lace organizing branch branches tg ts anti and ri regnia elating ting mira to thebert the beau leat of our understanding i so tar yar I 1 think v vre e have succeeded eded an ax well w ell bil as ag could have been leen andor th c bros eros john R youad young and nd benjamin benjamia cuff arrived in goo 1 health eaith 0 and spirit j on the loth rat xit lit xit bei sei seventeen ed dayt dayi y i from saul sari francisco bros brot john 11 and aliaba iare now ov on th the island liland of hawaii br dr ig a on the elizer other tilde aide 0 of ibis ebis island ludying su dying the ln gaag B william is going to the mand island cf of kauai haual first opportunity unity I 1 am going to the mand wand ol 01 maui we find it necessary to scatter out in order ta to obtain food and preserve the good rechah sei sel aai and friendship of the people ve we have made mada every enquiry and portion to obtain in r gard to land thau that would world be suitable for a gathering place p n any one of the la islands ands ande but I 1 lave ave not yet sue ci cica cd land is high almost every available 11 it pot spot has been taken up or held in tot rot ne irve at high prices tor for sugar oca ors balilea Ho lilea the ibe native 0 of f whom wag was boub boug bt has it place piece af if land on hawaii which broa bros alms allas td add joba are ara olag C to leok ieok at i T r lck IB it tha thi only pros 11 e c t for a gathering place that w know of 1 we v e do nok not khow know the extent cf of it nor its suitableness the price ia is A sum very large 7 to think of gathering out of the native sa sainta ints under existing circumstances etan cea they st 11 feel very sore abola about tb gibson e and none of them are at zil ail 11 anxious anxious to enter into another land speculation every family wants the gathens g place en cn their island inland or near their own homes hoines and it will be blime some time before they are as ieli well veil prepared to engage in the purchase of a piece of land as they were is scarcely a man or woman in the church but mourns the lose of hla hia or her property in some way neglected kulo or potatoe natchee pa tchee houses bouses sold sod bod money bant epstin in donating t and going to and from L lanai a nai nal etc etc 1 gibon still has possession ps p saes session bion sion of lanai and all ill the fruits of the labors of the saints there consisting of houses crops sheepy sheep goats horses poultry etc about eight families still remain with him directly after he ne was wai cut 09 off he dec dee declared lared to a gentleman of lahaina that lie he nuver u nver ver had been a mormon was rever baptized the bame game day he lie confessed to another gentleman that be had left the church four months blore we came to still another gentleman of this citi he sald said he hereda was not dot a mormon but was agent for brigham Y young n 0 on n these isla la larde ads 1 benow he now refue refuses esto to pay him for bandin binding some boks books of mormon which be he engaged engage him to do and winch be h promised bros beneba babeon and snow be he would pay for the natives have been arving to rc recover over ladal lanai but the excitement about changing the thet constitution which the kin king refuses to sign in as it is and difficulties in elections between the whites and natives erg er groses rosNes the attention of everybody and every other thing eo so it may be months before any notice is pv p v I 1 to it and I 1 am of opinion it will cos as much as it ia Is worth to regain it unless the government will take it in hand if we could get adoth another er pla e we should do so without regard lecard to lanai to obtain a tois toil tolerable erable gath gathering ering place on any of the ibe in antea island will cost coat so no leas jeas tamn frem from to mav mat is 13 so f fur jr as we have bave yet been able to fiad fi id ont to aalst aay any euch such sums among the natives woud be impossible and to d denend depend pend upon rhe ehe gathering and labor of tbt the saints would be very tain the natives tives do not like to work gibson gibeon would have bavo loat loit all he gathered in a few months through baking making ahem work even if it we ve had bad not dot come ile he u cd every po sible aible to keep thore those tb that aNere were with came casie up to that time limp and aid ald now every r foul fout 7 that was gathered gat herad there has left bim him toe eight families fatai ilea liea remaining are arc old settlers it is a settled fact tact among the planters that natives Nat igea ivea W wont ont work worl and they are bendi g to ch na and other places for laborer laborers while there are of natives consta aly away their time ahne in grass huts buts and riding 1 horses my own experience is 13 the same yet atit if we cannot get them to work we might instruct the children and perhaps ames a few ifyu tye bad bcd land preaching never wl I 1 do any per der permanent manant codd good they have been p cached to far forty years and they are arc dege erat eras ng every year moral horsly Y in liy tit and ana physic we cano even eveni see that ane tle tie gospel has lea teA them one iota lota because not 0 e of them has lived iti ill we have been astonished to leara of the conduct ot af the beemen crib and women in the church but we do not expect them then to do as a well aa as white people yet with our oar examples constantly before them and our ringing in their ears we expect a few to do better but it it is not riot soy sop so though they are most always on hand band to rhey v fould dould hot hist be he aierle averga aversa to religion if it they could be allowed to remain lu in idleness and adultery there has bag beon been a very great falling away ihbe we began to visit them because preached against adultery native dancing and ard drunkenness all oe of which were nere betic encouraged outraged by gibson it tho the united testimony of sik six hundred natives can be relied upon these were some of the Captai captain rila innocent illusions to stimulate the natives to exertion and for own goodill goedl tor for very reason nany many I 1 joined lb the church filth poverty ld idleness lne lae ine ss i a aind nd loathe boms bome diseases bave increased bince bines vre we were here bere before and gilr our united opinion is that it would aou lj be far worse for us in a short time than it used to be should ve e bo be coin torn palled to continue laboring as s we now a are T e 0 0 |