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My passage to Oahu was in the whale ship Enter-prise, Captain Weeks, a gentleman among the most es-teemed of the friends we have met in the Pacific : andin whose officers and ship we have taken a livelyinterest. Nothing of particular importance occurredwhile I was at Oahu ; and after a visit of three weeks, Ireturned in one of the native pilot-boats.

The blessings of a new year meet us in circumstancesof more than ordinary quiet and regularity, and theorder of our little cabin is more systematic than it hasbeen since our establishment On the islands.

The sketch of a day at present will give you theregular engagements of a month; and in its peacefulprogress, I can assure you, we find no inconsiderabledegree of contentment and happiness. We generallyrise with the sun, and spend the first hour in religiousand devotional reading; breakfast at eight o’clock, afrugal meal, as we are entirely without butter, sugar,and coffee; and immediately after have family worship.The hours from nine to twelve, Mr. Richards and my-self devote to the study of the native language, and tothe preparation of exercises for some one of the nativereligious meetings. At ten o’clock in the morning, andat five in the afternoon, Kekaunonohi, the youngestqueen of Riho-Riho, and one of her favourite femalefriends, an interesting and intelligent girl of fifteen,. come with their retinue to study, under the direction of

H-; while the young princess and another scholar

visit Mrs. Richards for the like purpose, at the samehours.

After dinner we devote an hour to miscellaneous