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Show PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. . (Continued) As . stated in the former letter, the natives believe the Islands were born of a woman, her name was Papa, and to have made the Kalo plant, by planting a deformed deform-ed child, and of which poi, their principal food, is made. They speak of a man onco among them who was so tall that he could wade the ocean he could stand with one foot on Ihe Island of Oahu the other on Kanai, 70 or 80 miles apart. One time the king of -Tahiti, who in revenge took, the Sun away and left the whole nation na-tion in darkness, but this tall man whose name was Kana walked through the ocean to the far south to where the maker of the Sun lived and got a bran new Sun. He then returned to the Sand-witch Sand-witch Islands and placed it in the' heavens, where it still remains to this day. But the natives have a belief or tradition that the first man and woman was made bf the earth, another tradition states that the first inhabitants that came to the islands came in a caroe and brought with them hogs, dogs, fowls and cats. They have a tradition of a flood drowning all but a few who were saved in a large vessel called Laau and this ark or vessel floated on the great waters and at last rested on top of their highest mountains. They practiced circumcision cir-cumcision and had houses of refuge re-fuge for the slayer to flet' to. They offered sacrifices of the hest they had, and to touch a dead person i was unclean, until purified bj a priest who performed the ceremony and pronounced them clean. Their priesthood was hereditary and it was death for males and females to be found together at certain times. Considering all these things it is ray belief that the Hawaiian race was once a favored people of the Lord and must have had the law of Moses , and, observed its teachings but through transgression they fell into darkness, error and superstition, supersti-tion, as regards the. true God, their recoids lost or destroyed, not knowing their worth, and as time rolled, on the greater became their ignorance, until at last they became a wild and savage nation, as they were found to bo when christian missionaries first visited them in 1820, and as Captain Cook found them 42 years before. I inquired in-quired of the natives what they thought when thoy first saw Cook and his ship? They believed the : ship to have been a little (inoku ) island floating on the oceau. m Tliisj was from seeing the ships rigging and masts which they took to bo a little forest and the men on hoard walking Gods or in other words walking volcanoes, as they saw fire and smoke come out c their mouths (sailors smoking their pipes. ) The thing that caused doubts as to Cook being a God was the little respect he manifested 'towards 'their t-j i Temples of worship. Ha liJl-d liJl-d by a ntira wh Wlyly Wh'nv Up bohiud Cook Jtn.i 4ftbNv4 mm His hvirt wa UVn ftl eu bv children ItoM t!M it wjCh a Kvf wn tr old men who aM thy could rramor sooin? CapUia Cook. Oao nativ sail to ra in broken Eijlisli "Cooi a tara phool. He w&at us to betwr he was gog( God ) h oaht to beoa killed, tarn phool." II. W. B. To be continued. |