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Show the next day we called cn the American consul and through him we got an introduction to the governor gov-ernor of the Island, "who was a half breed, his father being an Englishman and his mother a native lady of the Island. Wo told the Governor that we were missionaries and anxious to learn the native language and prjach to ' the people. He said if we did learn the language and preach to he peoplo it would be hard to get the Natives out of their old belief and traditions, for tho missionaries had been there for years and still the Natives retained their old traditions tra-ditions and notions. We asked him what kind of traditions? He replied that that would be a long story ' to tell, and said that the Natives believed that tho Islands were born of a woman, but could not tell who she was, where she is nor where Bhe came from. Elder Cannon gave the governor one of O. Pratt's pamphlets on the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Mor-mon. He thanked us and seemod pleased and said he could not read english but he would get his sheriff sher-iff to read it to him. We called on a Mr. Taylor and asked to preach in his chapel, tout like Mr. Domona of Honolulu, said he was only agent and did not like to make a . permanent promis, but after a little J talk he agreed we couldt-hold a meeting in the afternoon on Sun- Jf day, his meeting would be held at M ten a. m. Elder Cannon wrote out f . a notice and gave it to him. W e r attended his meeting and heard him preach and read the notice. The brethren said that I was the oldest, I must lead out and speak, first, which I did, the brethren following fol-lowing bearing their testimony to what wa3 said. There were not a great many white folks living at Lahainad and the few who did did not seem to take any interest in our preaching, in fact wo were not asked to preach any mora. H. W. B. To be continued. |