CHAPTER XII.

KAKAIMOKU’s NEW PALACE.

Mission House at Honoruru, Friday 16. Dinedto day at the residence of Captain Ebbetts, of New York ,in company with Mr. Crocker, American consul; Mr.Small,a Scotch gentleman, recently from South America yMr. Bruce and Mr. Halsey, of New York ; Mr. and

Mrs. Ellis ; and Mr. and Mrs. Loomis, and H-, of

the Mission.

Tuesday 20. This evening, at 8 o’clock, Karaimokusent to request us to attend prayers with himself andhousehold at his new house, in which he sleeps for thefirst time to-night. We passed a happy hour with him,and consider the circumstance a strong evidence of theinterest he takes, and the importance he attaches, to theexercises of family worship.

This building will bear the name of palace. It is ofstone, plastered and whitened, two and a half storieshigh, sixty-four feet in front, and forty in depth; andexternally, except in the roof, is not unlike Mr.J. Fennimore Cooper’s house, at Fennimore. The secondstory, the front doors and windows of which open on a