h! oh! we'll welcome you, sire,
The stranger of whom we've heard;
Lo! now with us you enter here,
This temple of the Lord.

"Oh! oh! we'll welcome you, sire,
The stranger to our land;
'Twas you who loved and sent to us
The missionary band.

"Oh! oh! we'll welcome you, sire,
Say all the brethren here,
Men, women, and the children, sire,
Unite in love sincere.

"Oh! oh! we'll welcome you, sire,
Our father and our friend;
Our best respects and wishes has
This stranger to our land."

After this was sung, we shook hands with nearly all in the church. Many,
to our embarrassment, brought little tokens of good-will in money,
amounting in all to ten dollars. With this we bought Hawaiian Bibles to
be distributed among the people. Imagine a man, coming up to shake
hands, but stopping before he did it diving his hand into the pocket of
his pantaloons, taking out a quarter of a dollar and laying it on the
table, then shaking hands as if he had paid for it! They have, however,
none of that feeling.

The tea-bell! the tea-bell!

XV.

Maui.

Four o'clock came, and with it my little folks, all ready for a story.
So I commenced.

* * * * *

We left Waimea on the morning of April 23, and rode on horseback to
Kowaihae, a distance of twelve miles; there we were to take the steamer
Kilauea.

On our way down to the shore we visited a heiau [hay-ow], or heathen
temple. It was built by Kamehameha I. at the time he was going over to
conquer Maui [Mow-e]. This was the last temple built on Hawaii. All the
inhabitants of the island, men and women, were commanded to come and
help build it, and none dared to stay away. It is about two hundred feet
square, twenty-five feet high, and as many feet thick, of solid stone,
just like a massive wall. Within we saw where the sacrifices were laid
overnight, and the pit where they were thrown in the morning,--a place
called by the natives hell.

"What were their sacrifices, aunty?" asked Willie.

Human beings,--generally lame or maimed persons. Before Kamehameha I.
left for the conquest of Maui, thirteen human sacrifices are said to
have been offered on this altar to insure him success.

After being hospitably entertained by a son of Judge Allen at Kowaihae,
we went on board the steamer about eight o'clock in the evening, and
soon Hawaii was left behind in the darkness. We