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inform them that the pilot-boat wojild sail immediatelyto Oahu for assistance; and to urge their departure withtheir families by the opportunity, assuring them that hewould protect them with his life so long as he lived,but intimating a fear that, from the weakness of theparty with him, they might all perish.

Our friends have suffered much from the horrors ofthe scene they witnessed at the storming of the fort, andon their visit to it after the battle, while it was yet filledwith the bodies of the slain, and echoing with the groansof the wounded and dying; much from anxiety for thesafety of Karaimoku; and much from fatigue and pri-vation, having embarked without taking any refresh-ment, or preparing any thing for the voyage, which hasteen forty-eight hours long. They were all completelydrenched with the surf, in getting off in a canoe to theschooner, and had not the means of changing the clothes,even of the two infants with them.

The evening has been one of intense interest, whilewe have listened to the narrative of our friends; andrendered our devout thanksgiving, that they have beenbrought safely to our arms from amid “ the ragings ofthe people and the scenes of death.

One of the rebel chiefs, a fine looking young man,was made captive when his party were repulsed. Herequested to be shot; but was bound hand and foot,according to a custom of the country, and carried onboard the pilot-boat. Mr. Bingham saw him in theevening after they had put to sea, seated against thetimbers of the vessel in her main hold. In the morning,the prisoner was gone; and on inquiry, the captain2 c