them? I told him I gave because they were poor; but this reason he could not understand. It is indeed universally true here, that those who give, do it, hoping to receive as much again."

Mr. Stewart mentions a poor creature who died within sight of the mission house, " After having lain uncovered for days and nights in the open air, most of the time pleading in vain to his family, still within the hearing of his voice, for a drink of water. And when he was dead, his body, instead of being buried, was merely drawn into the bushes, and left a prey to the dogs that prowl through the district in the night." He also speaks of having himself seen the attendants of the king stoning a lunatic, by way of sport. He was sadly bruised, and would probably have ended his miserable existence, had not one of the chiefs interposed, and rescued him from his tormentors.

Even the mother, by what she sees and suffers, loses her affection and sympathy for her own offspring. It was stated by the missionaries, after they had been four or five wears on the islands, that where the influence of the mission had not yet extended, twohirds of the infants born, perished by the ands of their own parents, before attaining The first or second year of their age. ries of the infant awoke no concern in the nother, and rather than submit to the task of

leave it to perish. "The very peri Mr. Stewart, "when the infant of tian mother is to her an object of i licitude, and of the deepest anxiety of sickness, suffering, and distress which the affections of the parental brought into the most painful ex those when the mother here feels t child she has a care and a trouble will not endure; and instead of sear the causes of its sorrow, or attemp leviate its pains, she stifles its cries ment with her hand, hurries it in already prepared for it, and tramples the earth under which the offspri bosom is struggling in the agonies

The customs of these people, in the dead, were barbarous. The firs of Christian burial among them, w the king's half sister, in the year 18 viously to that time, the bodies of th people were secretly buried, or othe posed of by night. On the death the flesh was torn from his bones b est friends or relatives, and afterwa or thrown into the sea. The bones fully preserved during one or two ge being the objects of veneration, a times of religious homage. In th was the body of Captain Cook trea Mr. Ellis ascertained to his own sa that some of the bones of this renov

gator were kept as objects of worship, in a temple devoted to that purpose, until within a short time of his visiting Hawaii. When the system of idolatry was abolished, these bones were secretly deposited in some place unknown to all but the priests, and have not since been discovered.

The scenes which formerly took place immediately after the death of a person of distinction, were so shocking in their nature and consequences, that they can hardly be described. When we consider the ascendency which the chiefs maintained over the common people during their lives, and also the superstiious belief prevailing among them, that the pirits of their deceased masters still wanderd about, with power to control the destinies f their former subjects, we cannot wonder at great excitement and apprehension should ollow the death of one of the nobles. On such ccasions, the people generally broke away om the restraints of government or humany. Personal rights were disregarded, each e committing such depredations as he ose, and assaulting the persons of friends. enemies with impunity. Muscular strength as the only security against violence and use. Even the chiefs lost their customary gnity, and were themselves exposed to the

of the populaces while day after day

These shocking transactions w panied by loud and continued w which thousands of persons unit same time distorting their face their limbs and bodies into unnatu comfortable positions, prostrating on the ground, and shedding torre To all this was added the still mor practice of rending the garments, hair, cutting or burning the fles putting out the eyes, and breakin with stones or clubs.

These cruelties were not exerci enemies merely, but near friends w and those who escaped injury fro of others, usually inflicted woun own bodies, it being considered and disgraceful to pass through s unhurt.

The ideas which these people of the condition of their friends seem to have been vague and They had some undefined exp meeting the spirits of their ance other state of being, but never loo to this future existence as to a sta and punishments. Although the idolatry operated so powerfully d of its votaries, those fears relate calamities which might overtake world. Beyond this they looke tenting themselves with their sc

MY DEAR L.-I have endeavoured to give you a full view of the sufferings and wants of the Sandwich Islanders. You will agree with me, that it was the duty of Christians to do something for their relief. But how was this to be effected? Could men be found who were willing to give up the comforts of a cultivated society, to mingle with a people degraded almost to a level with the brutes? It must, indeed, require the exercise of all the Christian graces, to induce a man cheerfully

to forsake father and mother brothers and