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Show ween the sexes, that no child with certainty could tell who tho father was, while there was no mistake iu regard to who the mother was. Children were often betrothed when very young and sacredly watched and guarded by tin ir parents pa-rents from entering into courtship with any others than those chosen for them. Having said so much on native customs and traditions, I will now write a little of my personal experience ex-perience from my journal of 1852. One day a number of us elders went up into a Canyon to engage in secret prayers: we formed a circle cir-cle and was about to engage in our prayers when we were suddenly startled by hearing a thundering noise. On looking up we saw a largo rock of tons weight rolling down the mountain towards us, but before reaching us it broke all into in-to pieces doing no harm. We thought this incident very strange and that some unseen agent desired to prevent the ciders from praying. Sat. Oct 27th. Last night I dreamed that I was naked and my body covered with' honey. Bees came and lit on my body and sucked suck-ed the honey. There came so many and they sucked so hard, that it seemed to me they would draw my very insides out, and it gave me such pain that it awakened awak-ened me, when I could still feel the pain in my bowels. H. W. B. To be continued. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. (Continued) When Captain Cook first anchored an-chored at the islands, it was in the night. If hen morning came the natives, for the first time, saw a white man. They were called smoking volcanoes. Their speech unknown, their heads horned, like the moon, the natives fbelieving the sailors hats was part of the head. In their sides were doors (pockets) into which they put their hands and drew out various va-rious articles knives, tobacco, etc, and their skins (clothes) lcoso. In 1820 the first missionaries with their wives landed at the islands is-lands to christianize the natives. This was the first white women they ever saw. The natives said their faces were round and white and they wore hats with spouts and their faces far in. This was so wonderful to see that the natives followed the women, peering under their bonnets and feeling their dresses, which the natives called loose skins, and took liberties in examining and handling their dresses, which was permitted, as no offence was intended. When them issionaries commenced their labors and engaged in prayers clos-ingtheireyes, clos-ingtheireyes, as were tbeir custom, the natives were frightened, and they lied, for fear, thinking they were being prayed to death. It was believed by the Hawaiians that they had 2 souls, one of which ; remained with the body after death, the other went to Po (a place of darkness or night), the other had power to come back with messages to their living friends, telling who should have possession of their personal effects or property, even visiting their friends living on another island, who knew nothing of the death of their friend or relative, rela-tive, as the case might be. Hank was heredtiary and decend-ed decend-ed from tho females. This was because be-cause of the licenses that existed be- |