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Show figure. At last we hired a small housojit the iate of .four dollars per week, belonging to a native woman, a poor widow, whose namo was . Nalimanui. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. (Continued) The next day President Clark invited us to 'take a walk and we j went up a creek where we soon found a nice hole of water at the foot of some falls. Here all hands had a nice bath. After washing our bodies we ascended a mountain moun-tain where we had a good view of Honolulu and shipping apd;the surrounding country. The whole face of country looked like midr summer at home. Finding a suitable place, each elder gathered stones and we built a rude alter, around which we sat, sang a hymn, then prayed, President Clark being mouth, we agreeing beforehand what we would pray for, and that was to ask the Lord to open our way and to be with us that a quick work might be done, etc. Aftei prayer we sang again and elder Dixon spoke in tongues. Elder I Hawkins gave in part the interpretation in-terpretation and that was, "a good work would be done, yea, more than we had asked for," pointing his hand in all directions. We truly had a time of rejoicing and by the time we returned to our room the sun was low in the west On sunday morning, December 15, Elder Clark sent a note to Mr. Damona, the Chaplain oW the "Seaman's Bethel" asking the privilege to preach in the Bethel,, but we were refused. "We all concluded con-cluded to go to King's Church or Chapel where wo heard preaching in the native language, by a" white man, a missionary who had been there for many years, but not one word of the native language could we understand. A few days after this, Elders Cannon, Keeler and I sailed for Lahaina, the capital of the Islands of Maui, 120 or 30 miles distant from Honolulu. Going- ashore, we went to the Hawaiian Hotel and spent the most of the day in hunting a house or room we could get at a low |