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June
1, 1853 |
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Leave
for Hawaii
Lahaina |
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There was a great many of The Native
Brethren & Sisters Came for to See us Off. The[y] manifested great affection
Towards us, and ware Surrey to part With us. I saw some with the tears running
down their Cheeks. [Sea sick en route to Maui, calls on Hammond at Lahaina.] |
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June
6, 1853 |
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| Landfall—no
food or water |
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[Arrives] at Hawaihae.
Couldn't get anything to eat or drink; sick, feeble. Could Hardly walk.
This part of the Island Is a poor Barren Miserable place. Only a few Misserable
Natives living Chifly on fish. My feeling were very Sensitive on This ocation.
I could not help but Reflect on Home. I thought I could get Bread and watter
enough at any [-] But hear we Could not get a drink of Water. |
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| Set
sail again |
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How ever though the Course of this
Day I fell in with an English man From Cumberland who have resided On these
Islands for 16 years. [He invites them home for dinner. They find Hilo is
farther than they had thought, so they return to the boat, sailing at midnight
on the 7th. On account of bad winds it takes 2 days & 2 nights to make
20 miles.] |
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June
9, 1853 |
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Landfall
Weak |
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Arrive [at northern tip of the Big
Island] . . . went a Shore. When I landed I Could Hardly walk up the Beatch,
my Limbs Fearly Trembled with Weakness, having not eat any thing Since Monday
night. Now it is Thursday. … |
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Natives
offer poi
Unable to stomach it |
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Soon we ware Surounded by a lot of
Natives, poor & Miserable to all a pearance. We felt that Nature was
allmost Exhusted. I thought on Home and wished I only head Some of the Butter
Milk I Have Seen thrown in the Swell tub. We could get nothing to eat or
to drink But Some poe What the natives eat. But my Stomack was so weak and
Sick that it would not admit of that Food. |
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2 chickens |
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How ever we found some Chickens. We
Bought 2. Went to work and Cooked Them. It was very difficult for to doe
That for want of fire. We got them Cooked And head a good Supper of Boiled
Chickens after which we felt greatly Refreshet. … |
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| Native
Mormon |
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We ware not hear long Before we ware
enformed that their Was a Native Bro., a Mormon, living in this Settlement.
He was sent For. He came to see us & Invited us To come down to his
House. We went and Stopt with him. |
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| Many
curious natives |
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That night [a] Great many came to
hear us and to ask Questions a bout our Church through the corse of the
Evening and night. We have an Interpreter with us, a Native Elder, a very
Smart and Intiligent Native. He can handle the Scriptures well. We a pointed
a meeting For tomorrow morning, the first thing. |
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June
10, 1853 |
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Kahumoku
preaches
2 baptized |
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Friday the 10th. Before we head got
up the head commenced to gatther we Soon Opend our meeting by prayr &
Singing. Elder Kahumoku Preached To a very a tentive and well behaved Congration*
of natives. At the Close of the Meeting there was 2 Candateates came Forth
for Babtism, which was a tended To before Brackfast. |
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| Afternoon
confirmation and instruction |
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In the afternoon We a pointed a nother
meeting to a Tend to Conforming and to Instruct them On those principeles.
The[y] all felt to Rejoice in the gospel which we teach. There was 2 Babtised
and Confirmed This Day in the Church of Jesus Christ. |
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June
11, 1853 |
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Kahumoku
preaches
2 baptized |
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Saturday the 11th. We heald a nother
Meeting this morning a bout [blank] O Clock. Elder Kahumoku Preached after
the Meeting there was 2 came forth For Babtism. |
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| Fulfillment
of prophecy |
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Some of the natives Say That God
Caused a Strong Head Wind to blow us into this place, to preach the gospel
to them. When the Capt. of The Scooner beard of us Babtising a Good many,
he Said that was the Reason he head to put into this place Because he head
3 Jonas on board & head to be landed hear. Indeed I belive that the
hand of the Lord is in it in Causing Us to have been driven in to this Place. |
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| Kohala |
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This is the Extream North point of
the Island of Hawaii the District of Kohala. While Travling this Morning
through the Setlements and Neighbourhood of this place a long the Sea Cost
I was reminded of the Sayings Of the prophets when God would Send out fishes
and than Hunters to Hunt Out Isreal out of the dens and caves of the Earth
and holes of the rocks. … |
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| Chief's
invitation |
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As we Ware returning Back to our Stoping
Place, we ware Soluted by a call at some little distance, phraps [perhaps]
of some 10 or 15 rods from us. We ware Informed it was the Chieft Calling
us. We went up To His house and ware Invited in with all the friendship
a maganable. He head Heard Some little a bout the Mormons Before but Could
not tell what the[y] ware and wished for to hear them. |
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Karren
spells the chief's name as Napi, Napoi, and Naihe. His name is arbitrarily
but consistently spelled Napoi in margin notes. |
Chief's
hospitality
Milk |
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He Said he head great Joy in seeing
us And hearing us talk. He Invited us To eat. But we head Just being eating
How ever he Brought us Some Milk Which is the first treat of Milk I have
head Since I have left home He manifested a good spirit and Said that he
would come to hear us Preach to morrow. |
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| Invites
missionaries to stay with him |
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He allso Said for to Come their and
eat while we stopt in this place. We ware very glad Of the Invatation, as
Native food is not that of The Best Quality. |
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June
12, 1853 |
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Morning
meeting, chief attends
4 baptized |
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June 12, 1853. [The 10 a.m. meeting
was crowded but attentive; 4 were baptized.] This Chief was ther allso,
as he promised, and nothing would Doe but we must go right of to his Place
and Preach. |
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Kahumoku
preaches at chief's
Positive reception |
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We gave a pointment To Preach at
his place at one (o) Clock, which we a tended to forth with. There was a
good gathering. Elder Kahumoku Preached one hour and a half. The[y] Seem
to Rejoice very much with Our Doctrine and Say it is like the Bible. At
the Close of the meeting we gave Out & a pointment for Tomorrow Morning
For a meeting at 8 (o) Clock and would A tend to Babtising those that ware
Ready to Obey the Gospel. |
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| Supper:
goat's milk, molasses, fish, sweet potaoes, poi |
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After meeting Supper was prepared
for us which Concists of Goats Milk and Mollasses Fish and Sweet Potatoes
and Poe Which was a great treat to us not With Standing the milk was Strained
Throug a Stocking.
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June
13, 1853 |
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Chief
Napi
Kid head for breakfast |
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Monday 13th we met at the House of
Mr. Napi the Chief a greable to a pointment. When we got ther he head a
Kid Prepared for us for Breakfast. |
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4 baptized, including Napi
Confirm at water's edge
Afternoon instruction |
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Soon afterwards We Commenced our meeting,
after which There was 4 came forth for Babtism which Was a tended to, the
Chief was one of the Number. We Confirmed them by the Water Side, and than
retired to the House and spent the forenoon In Structing them in the principles
of the Gospel. |
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| 8 baptized |
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After Dinner we left to a tend a nother
apointment where we Babtised 8 More which makes 12 we have Babtised this
day. |
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People
kind, affectionate, believing
Need much instruction |
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This people is very Kind and afectionate
And Beliving more so than any people I ever Saw, a cording to the abilites
they Have. But the[y] requare a great dale of Teaching. |
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June
14, 1853 |
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Schooner
leaves
Missionaries remain
2 baptized |
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Tuesday 14th. This morning the Schooner
Left hear. The whispering of the spirit To us was to Tarrey hear for a while,
How long I dont Know, but I pray to my Father which is in heaven Allways,
that I may Know the Voice Of his good Spirit, and walk acording to its dictates.
… In the afternoon we Babtised 2 …
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June
15, 1853 |
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| Reads,
prays for people |
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Wedensday the 15th. I stopt in the
House, The fore noon reading. I Could not Help but pour out my Soul to God
In behalf of this people, to see the Kindness the[y] manifest to us In Bringing
to us their fish and Potatoes, the Best they have got. |
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Afternoon
organize 2 branches
Ordain men |
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This After noon we met Acording to
Apointment to Organize a Branch, the Meeting was opened With Singing and
prayr, and then Proceeded to Business. We Ordained 3 priest, 3 Theacers
& 2 deacons And as the[y] are some what Scattred We proposed dividing
the district In to two Branches. |
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| People
have Spirit of God |
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I never Saw A people feel better
in my life. The[y] manifested much of the Spirit Of God. We all felt well. |
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| Teach
Utah elders Hawaiian |
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In the Evening Some of the Natives
spent An hour or two with us, teaching Us to speak the Native Language. |
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June
16, 1853 |
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| Studies
Hawaiian with natives |
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Thursday the 16th. We remained in
The house all day, Studing the Language. The Natives feel very Anxious for
us to Learn; the[y] take a great dale of paines To teach us. |
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| Faith
of the people |
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In the afternoon a number Of the
Brethren Met to gether, and we Held A meeting; and much of the Spirit Of
God was in our midst. I never Saw People in my life express more Joy And
cinserity then this people doe. |
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Napoi
Rev. Bond condemns Mormons |
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Bro. Napoi, he is a man of Some note
Among the natives he is a Chief and Is rich. As Soon as he obeyed the Gospel
He recived a letter from his priest The Rev. Mr Bond; of the Calvinest order
Stating that he was a Quinted with the Mormons, in a Merica and Said That
we ware A very Bad people; we Ware thevs & Robers and every thing else
That was bad. |
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| Napi
refuses to believe him |
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Bro. Napi Answered Him Back, Saying
I dont belive a word You Say; he allso replied I would not Come back, if
you would Intreat Of me with tears runing to the ground. I have been fead
on your Sower milk Long Enough; these men preach the Same As the Bible teach;
and I Know it is True. This is the Import of the answer That he Sent the
priest. |
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| People
believe the Bible |
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This people Has great faith in the
Bible. It is The only Book the have been thourht to read, And there is Some
Great Scriptorians among them; and when the principeles of the Gospel is
preached to them in Simplicity the[y] recive it with All their hearts. |
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| Missionaries
taught them to read and write |
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Let the devel have his Due, the missionaries
have done some Good; the have learned this people to Read and Write. Ther
is Some Smart Scholars a mong them. So far so good. |
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| 1
baptized |
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At the Close of our Meeting this afternoon
thear was one candatate for Babtism Which was a tended to. |
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June
17, 1853 |
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| Rev.
Bonds reducing fees |
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Friday the 17th the first thing this
Morning We ware Informed by a School teacher Of the Rev. Mr Bonds that he
(Mr Bond) Held a Meeting Yesterday and expresed Great fears of his Members
all laving Him and turning to be Mormons. He made proposels to them that
The[y] that paid him 30 dollars per Year Should only pay him 10 And all
the rest in proportion to What the[y] paid that is reducing 2 Third. |
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| Clergy
fear Mormons but are careful |
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And So it is with all the priest
on this Islands. The[y] fear us worse than the[y] doe the Allmighty; the[y]
find that their Craft Is in danger. I must acknowledge The[y] have some
wit. The[y] hold their Peace; what the[y] doe is in Sacret. The[y] dare
not come out Before the Publick. The[y] are a ware. The[y] have sharp Edge
tools to handle and are a fraid Of Cutting their fingers. |
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| Letters
from home |
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We recived A letter from Elder Johnson
this Morning Informing us of his Reciving 3 Letters from home … |
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| Kahumoku
preaches |
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Elder Kahumoku preached & Priest
Paul; there was a good spirit in the Meeting. |
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June
18, 1853 |
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| With
Napi |
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Saturday the 18th After Breakfast
we Went And Spent the day with Bro. Napi reading and Expounding the Scriptures
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June
19, 1853 |
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| Napi
lives close to Bonds. |
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Sunday 19th; this morning at 10 (o)
Clock We held a Meeting at Bro. Napi, A bout 20 Rods distance from the Reverend
Mr Bonds Meeting House |
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| Bonds'
congregation comes to listen |
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Before Our Meeting was Closed, Bonds
Congration All came in and Manifested a disposition Like as if the wanted
to hear. Elder Kahumoku re opened the Meeting and Delivred a discourse on
the first principles Of the Gospel which was very a tentivley Listened to.
There Seem to be a moving Of the waters. |
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| 1
baptized, many spectators |
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After meeting we Babtised One. There
was a great many Spectators. |
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People
afraid of clergy's opposition
Mormonism popular topic |
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The people say that we teach like
the Bible belive what we Say, but a great Many of them are a fraid of the
Missionarys and are Backward to obey the Gospel so great is the Influance
the are Under. But the Lord is at work a Mong the people; Mormonism is Getting
to be the Topic a mong the Islands. |
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| Mamona,
Mammon |
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You cant go any where, nor Turn any
Corner, but youre ears is Saluted with Mamona the native Word of Mormon.
The Priest[s] Say this Is the Mammon Spoken of in the Scriptures which is
on[e] of their greatest Wapons. |
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| Kahumoku
baptizes 11 |
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Elder Kahumoku is our Spoaksman. We
Sent him in the Afternoon to fill a nother a pointment, after which he babtised
all [11?]. |
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| Kalama
baptizes 1 |
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John Kalama, a Native priest, Babtised
One in a nother place, which makes 13 that has been aded to the Church this
day.
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June
20, 1853 |
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| Writes
letter |
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Monday the 20th I spent the fore part
of the day in writing. As I fell in Company With a Scotch man that was Costing
round The Island and was going direct to The cost of California, I thought
I would Improve The Oppertunity and Send some Letters By him. I roat a lengthy
letter … |
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| Afternoon
blesses children |
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Afternoon I a tended a meeting to
Bless Children.
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June
22, 1853 |
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| News
of epidemic |
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Wednsday 22nd … [News from Honolulu]
Informs us of the Small pox making Great Havock in that place. From 2 to
3 hundred has been Slain by The hand of the destroyer through that Plague
Sence we left, which is Only a bout 3 Weeks. It is very fatal In every Case,
with a Very few Exceptions, But it Rejoyces me to See the faith of the Saints
and the Power of God that is made manifest In their midst. I have not heard
Of any deaths a mong the Brethren As yet all dough there has been Many cases. |
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| Natives
only want the Elders |
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All the aid the[y] want Is the Elders
to administer to them. I never Saw as much faith in my life A mong any people
as there is Manifested a mong these Natives. |
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| Petition
government |
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One of our Native Elders has petitioned
Goverment Signed by all The member To Grant them the Privilage of there
own Doctors. The[y] wanted no Medical men near Them. All the[y] wanted was
the Elders Of the Church of Jesus Christ to Administer to them and to pray
With them and Anointing them In the Name of the Lord. |
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Laws
require doctors and vaccination
Expects exemption |
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When the Small pox first made its
apearance there was an Act Passed, that every afected person Should be Taken
to the Hospital; and Certen Docters aponted to take care of them, And allso
a fine of 5 dollars if the[y] neglected To be a vasenated. But the plague
Is becoming fearfull and Spreading Death and devastation, on every hand.
I sepose the[y] are willing to grant the Saints there request. |
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| Clergy
and doctors now administering with oil |
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Priest Smith, When he was accused
by Some of his Members for not doing as the Mormons done, telling him that
The[y] done like the Bible, he Said it was right and went to work and laid
his Hands on Several of them. So it is With the Docters; the[y] have comenced
Anointing with Oile Saying it Is the Best Cure for the S pox seeing The
Mormons are very Successful in There administrations. |
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It is now as It has been in all
ages of the world. The[y] Will a plie to any thing Before the truth. I supose
the[y] think Because we use Oile In our administrations that is the medium
through which the Sick is Healed. O how Dark is the mind of man.
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June
23, 1853 |
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| No
wood, water, food |
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Thursday 23rd. [Begin looking for
new places to preach in.] The place we have been labouring in this last
fortnight is a poor miserable place, and are not able to Keep us. There
Is not a morsel of wood to Cook a potato for us, neather is there a Drop
of fresh water that we can Get to drink. There is nothing of any discription
That grows here. The natives live on fishing. All to gether we have head
prety hard time Since we have been hear. There is nothing But a sense of
Duty that would Induce us to Stop hear, And that of the Strictest Sort. |
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| Scarcity |
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Our living is not only poor and dirty
but is Very Scanty at that; we can hardly get a nough At times to Sustain
Natiour, and a Great deale of the food that we get nothing But Hunger would
Induce us to eat it. |
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1
sweet potato for two yesterday
Bad poi |
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Yesterday morning Bro. Tanner and
my Self Got 1 Sweet potato for our Breackfast. We felt Satisfyed. We Knew
it was the Best the[y] head and all the[y] head. That was All we head that
day. At night we got Some hard poe that was half rotten and Moldy. Hunger
compeled us to eat, but Ill a sure you it was but very little. |
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| Natives
give their best |
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Know me Knows the Sancation of feeling
That we have to Indure at times. Only they that has passed through the Experiance
that Can have any Idea. After all The[y] treat us the Best the Know how. |
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| Compassion |
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When We see the Kind disposition
the manifest Towards us we cant help but Simpathithes For them. Our hearts
is moved with Compassion Towards them. We feel to Indure all privations
That we may win them to Christ. |
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| Native
hut |
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After we Traveled 5 or 6 miles this
morning we came To a House where there was a Native Bro Lived. He Kindly
Invited us in. The House Was Small. We head to Stoop on our Knees to get
in. He got dinner for us, Which Consisted of pork and poe and Some fruit.
I felt greatly refreshed as I was very weak before. |
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He Invited us to call When we came
back and Stop over Night with him And he would The people of that place
for to have a meeting. |
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We traveled a few miles Further and
put up for the night.
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June
24, 1853 |
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Friday the 24th. Very wet and Stormy
this morning. … [Leave at noon, travel 4 or 5 miles; put up at] a Sister
Mormon House. Her Husband was A Calvinist, but we ware warmly recived she
went to work and preapared a good Supper for us … [Children come in,
give missionaries apples that are more like "Pares" but very "read."
There is a little water and wood here, small groves of shrubs. Spent the
night.] |
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June
25, 1853 |
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Good
breakfast
Pololu
Perpendicular cliffs
Narrow valley |
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Saturday the 25th. [Have a good breakfast
with milk and poi "which was a choice dish to us." Travel 2 mi.
to very deep valley (Pololu) on the coast; singular appearance.] You cant
See it untill you Are right perpenticular over it. [Go down 3/4 mile to
bottom; valley no larger than common size farm and at least 100 natives
living in it.] |
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Received
coldly.
Warned against the Mormons
No food |
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When we first maid our Apearance amoung
them we ware Looked upon as Some Strange Beings That head Come from the
upper Worlds. Yet we ware Recived very Coldly. The Catholics and Calvinest
Influence is Very Strong in this place. The[y] have been Instructed And
[- ] against the Mormons. How ever we Spent the day trying to get an opening
To preach. Evry thing Seemed Very dark. I felt my self like as if the Heavens
Were Brass; evry thing was discurageing The people [were] poor & Miserable
and no Signs for any thing to Eat. |
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Preach
in afternoon
8 baptized |
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We perservered And got to preach
to a few in the Afternoon, after which there was 8 Came forth for Babtism.
I Could not Help but feel Condemned for my littleness Of faith. How ever
we felt greatly Incuraged And Give an a pointment to preach Tomorrow morning
at 10 o Clock.
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June
26, 1853 |
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| People
gather |
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Sunday the 26th. The first thing after
Breckfast the people Commenced To gether. I felt to pour out my Soul Before
God in prayr in behalf of this people. … |
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| Kahumoku
preaches powerfully |
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Elder Kahumoku Spoak with power.
The spirit of God rested upon him. It a peared that Every Mouth was Open
And every Eye Stadfast. The[y] never Heard the like before. |
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know to pay clergy and quit smoking |
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One man Said that He never Knew that
there was any thing required Of him in the Bible but to pay the Preiest
and Quit Smoaking; that Is the most of the teaching, the[y] have Ever heard. |
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20
baptized
2 baotuzed
Ordinations |
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After meeting there was 20 Came forth
for Babtism which Was a tended to forthwith. We held a meeting a gain at
1 o Clock after Which we Babtised 2; we allso Ordained 2 teachers and 1
deacon and gave a pointment for next Sabath To Organize a Branch and a Invatation
For all the neighbourhoood to Come and hear us. |
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June
27, 1853 |
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Summons for disturbing school |
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Monday the 27th. We left to return
Back to our Stoping place which is About 15 miles. We had not Travled More
than 2 or 3 miles before up Comes A Constable and But [Put] A Summons Into
Our hand to A pear before the District Judge to Stand Trial for disturbing
One of their Schools, which was a fals Accusation. How ever it will have
a good Teandancy; it will preach a loud Sermon. |
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| Escorted
by hundreds |
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Before we got to the Coart House we
Were Escorted by Some 4 or 5 Hundred People; it but [put] me in mind before
us Now when I have Seen Margreys go Throug[h] the town. |
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Crowded
court house
Acquitted |
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The Court House Was Crow[d]ed to
Excess every eye was up on us. The charges that head been laid a gainst
us was proven fals. We are To have a rehearing on next friday. |
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Potatoes,
sugar cane
Poi, salt |
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We have Traveled Some 15 Miles to
day and very poor fead. We head only a little Potatoes and Salt for Breckfast.
We plucked Some Sugar Cain on the way Side and Eat after Traveling that
distance, when we got to Our Stoping place the Best the[y] Could Give Us
was poe and Salt.
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June
28, 1853 |
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Fish
and poi
They do the best they can |
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[Fish & poi for breakfast.] I
find no fault with the People. I feel to Bless them; the[y] doe the Best
The[y] Know how. If the[y] had better we would Get it. [Studies.] |
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June
29, 1853 |
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| Writes
Dennis |
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[Writes Brother Dennis, visits the
brethren.] |
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June
30, 1853 |
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Bananas,
chicken
Sleep on mats |
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[Start for upper country to fill an
appointment. Feels weak. Native sells them bananas (Tanner has 25 cents).
Put up for the night in a native hut owned by a member of church who cooks
them a chicken. They sleep "Indian Fashion" on mats on ground.] |
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Thomas Karren Diary 2
Francis A. Hammond Diary
Smallpox in Paradise
Biographical Sketches
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