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KING AND QUEEN OF TIIE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

We have already mentioned the arrival of the
BLosne frigate, Captain Lord liYitom, at Ports-
mouth. It was this ship which conveyed to
the Sandwich Islands the bodies of the 'late
KING and QUEEN of these islands.
The Br.orintz: left England in the autumn of 102.1: on her
arrival at Valparaiso, Mr. Charlton, Consul-General of the
Islands ,in' the Pacific, was sent forward to Woahoo to an-
nounce tt►e death of the King and Queen, and the expected
arrival of the Blonde with the bodiei. It was regardekas a
remarkable circumstance by the natives, that just previous to
the period of Mr. Charlton's arrival at Woahoo, certain natu-
ral phenometia;--such as the extraordinary overflowing and
recession *of the tide, an eclipse of the moon, &c. had taken
place, which impressed them with a belief that some fatality
bad happened to the King or,Qtteen ; similar occurrences being
observed when Tamahama the First died—the first sovereign
who conquered all the seven islands, brought them under
one Government, and afterwards ceded them to Van-
couver, in 1794. This omen, or presentiment, was con-
firmed by Mr. Charlton's arrival. When the Blonde
arrived at ,-Honoruru, (the anchorage of Woahoo), in May
last, she was, however, immediately saluted by
nine-
teen guns from the fort. The day afterward, Lord Byron'
and all his Officers, had an audience of the Regent (Karimoku,
the brother of Bold, the Governor, who came to England), at
his house, at which were delivered, in the presence of all the
heads of the nation, the presents sent out in the Blonde by
our King. The present King of the Islands is Kaukiauli, a
lad about eleven years of age, brother of Rio Rio, who (lied
in England. On the 23d of May (four days after the arrival
of the Blonde), at eleven a. tu. the bodies of the King and
Queen were landed, attended by Lord Byron and all the
Officers of the Blonde, dressed in their full uniforms. On
the arrival of the boats at the landing point, they were placed
on two funeral cars, and drawn by native Chiefs (about forty
to each car) to the late room of audience belonging to the
Prince Regent, the tomb-houie not being finished. Kau-
kiauli (brother of the late King), and the Princess Nahienaena,
were the chief mourners, supported by Lord Byron and the
British Consul—the numerous Chiefs of the Island, and the
Officers of the Blonde, formed an extensive funeral cavalcade.
The.Blonde continued at the Island about six weeks, during
which Lord Byron attended the meetings of the Chiefs, who
gravely deliberated respecting the succession of the young
King and Princess to the throne : as heretofore, might had
constituted right. This important matter was, however, very
amicably arranged—the heads of the nation, and all the Chiefs,
expressing their earnest desire to conform themselves strictly
to the laws of legitimacy and of consanguinity. This island
is described as the most fertile of all the Sandwich Islands.
The inhabitants, by a late census, amounted to 40,001►.

The Blonde proceeded from Woahoo to visit the isle of Owy-
hee (about three days' run), and refit there. She anchored In
one of the finest bays in the world (now called Byron Bay),
which Vancouver was deterred from entering by a coral rdak
appearing to impede the entrance, but which actually forms its
principal security. It is a most safe position ; and its rich and
beautifully varied scenery has obtained for it the appellation of
The Eden of the Sandwich Islands.' In the neighbourhood of
this Bay the Island b, in the highest state of fertility; hut the
natives are in nearly the same state ns they were when Captain
Cook discovered them in 1779. An American Missionary had
arrived there about six months since, whose instructions would,
no doubt, advance them in civilization, as those of his brethren
had the natives at Woahoo. The Blonde then returned from
Byron Bay to NVoahoo, and Lord Byron took leave of the
King, Regent, and CAA, and fulfilled the purpose of his visit
to the Islands, in the highest degree satisfactory to them, and
beneficial to the country. The kindness, grace, and attentions of
his Lordship to the natives, we are assured, have made the most
favourable impression on them of the English character. The
Blonde was literally laden with stock and provisions every de.
scription, by the natives, who refused payment for any thing
they could supply the ship. The Blonde left Woahoo for Kara-
kokooa Bay, where Captain Cook was unfortunately killed.—
Here Lord Byron erected a humble, simple monument to the
memory of the great circumnavigator—noton the spot where he
was killed, as that was found impracticable, it being underwater;
but where his body was cut up, on the top of a hill, about a mile
'from the shore. The natives of the Islands having embraced
Christianity, the Regent gave permission to Lord Byron to visit
the sacred sepulchre, and take therefrom whatever relics of their
former religion he wished to possess. The sanctuary was filled
with their various Hods_ % the work of men's hands'.._some
manufactured of wicker-work and feathers, others carved out of
wood, with numerous articles which had been made sacred, by
being offered to them, in acts of gratitude, for success in fishing,
hunting, and the other occupations of their simple life. But
the article that most struck the visitors, as remarkable, was English consecrated drum. The temple was despoiled of most
of its former sacred treasures, which are brought to England in
the Blonde. The Blonde left the Sandwich Islands to pro.
ceed to Otaheite, but, in consequence of the trade winds, sir
could not fetch it by 500 miles, and therefore made a direct
course for the coast of Chili, during which she fell in with dial.
den's, Husbrack's, and Parry Islands, the two former unin-
habited, the latter only known to the inhabitants of Otaheite,
and made a wonderful run of 4,500 miles in three weeks, and
7693 miles in 49 days.
The King of the Sandwich Islands, Tamanma the First, who
died in 11119, bad made must considerable advances towards
civilization; he had directed for the defence of his island
three forts, one of which mounts forty-two pieces of ordnance ;
he possessed abut. a considerable fleet, with which he had sub.
clued the whole group of islands, and at the time of his death '
was arranging an expedition for the conquest of Otaheite and
the other Society Islands, situated at least it thousand miles
from him. The simplebabits and easy modes of living of the.
natives do not prompt to much personal exertion ; they re-
quire no clothing, and their fish, which is abundant, with
tire terra root, which grows spontaneusly, afford them a
gratuitous, constant, and a plentiful subsistence. It has never,
until now, been ascertained with certainty, how they dis-
posed of their dead. It appears that this duty of conceal-
ment devolves upon the next of kin, who buries the body in
the middle of the night following their death, and when
the flesh has been consumed they gather up the bones, which
one of them removed
they convey into the interior and lodged in a cavity or clift of
erection of four poles, to go within
whicinh itshedsant m'arlhlneerOnarlye
tiliiieonrodceltessi;)etolptelsee, spots are then tabooed or held sacred by the
it
y. Symptom,rh e obfo angernesuo.ta.stanhyhioetnfoy,
al itvlaeylsly, discovered
a portion of one of these' depositories of the remains of morta-
collected in a temple or sepulchre, and which is the only remain-
inkbuilding of the former religion now on the Island, and which
is situated in Karakakoa Bay. The bow, arrow, slings, and
clubs of the deceased Kings and chief warriors are also deposit..
eel with their remains.
The dagger with which Captain Cook was killed, is in the
possession of a literary gentleman of the Blonde, who has col-
lected many new interesting, and curious particulars relative to
his death, and of the past history of these interesting islanders
(Hampshire Telegraph.)