ABSTRACT
DURING the expedition to England, several changes had occurred in the islands. Old things were passing away. At Kailua, the memorable scene of the last battle between idolatry and the iconoclasts, a place of Christian worship had been erected, in which the average attendance each Sunday was eight hundred persons. Kapiolani had become a Christian, dismissed all her husbands except Naihe, and had thoroughly adopted the habits of civilized life. This is the female chief who descended the crater of Kilauea. 'She died in 1841. The ex-King of Kauai died in 1824, also a convert, and a. sincere one, to the new faith. He bequeathed his possessions to Liholiho. Keeaumoku, Karnehameha's old warrior, and Governor of Kauai, was also dead a short time previous to the decease of the sovereign of that island. His powerful grasp of the government having ceased, the Kauaians, on learning the death of their late king, threw off restraint, and renewed many heathen practices. It cannot be a matter of surprise that the echoes of heathenism would still return at first, although the body of paganism was removed. They would be fainter, and only heard under favouring circumstances; but in the present case they
had also a political association. The people connected the former system with their former independence; and in the anarchy which reig'ned for a time in the island, an armed attempt was made to throw off subjection to the central government, to expel the new governor, and to promote George KaumuaHi, the late King's son, to the crown. The insurrection was, however, queUed by the usual vigour of the prime minister, Kalaimoku, after some vigorous fighting and the execution of some chiefs. A grand council was held to settle the island finally, and it was formally annex.ed to the kingdom of I ... iholiho.
