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knowledge of this having reached some of the makaainana, or farmers of Lahaina , who did not enter intothe recent dissipation, including the tenants of our ownplantation, application was made by them to us forbooks and slates, and an instructor ; and the first school,consisting of about thirty individuals, ever formed amongthat class of the people, has, within a few days, beenestablished in our enclosure, under the superintendenceof B-, who is quite familiar with the native tongue.

This event we regard as very important: believingthat the introduction of books and slates among thecommon people, will prove, as it did among the chiefs,the most effectual means of withdrawing them fromtheir idle and vicious habits; and of bringing themmore readily under the influence of our teachings inmorality and religion.

Thursday 23. The leading female chiefs returnedon Saturday from Hawaii , and sailed again this morningfor Taui, to visit Karaimoku, who has been successful inputting down the insurrection ; and has called a councilof the-chiefs, to sanction his arrangements for the futuregovernment of that island. George Tamoree, who hasescaped death, will be brought to Honoruru, and kept asa prisoner at large. The principles of Christianity havebeen most happily exhibited by Karaimoku and hischiefs in the prosecution of the war : it has been con-ducted with as little as possible of the former sanguinaryspirit of their conflicts. The rebel party proved smallin number and weak in power, all avowedly pagans,with George, a professed sceptic, at their head.*

* Although George Tamoree, or Ilumehuma, as he was deno-