Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 28, Number 9, 1 September 2011 — Lahainaluna, [ARTICLE]

Lahainaluna,

July 22, 1845

Fond Regards to the King, Your servant has resided in the eountryside these past months, speaking about the benefits that bring peaee to your nation, O King, and by whieh your people will prosper, so the thought arises in them to respond. The old men and women command me to express their love to you. "We pray hard to God, that he grant peaee to Kamehameha III., the chiefs helow him, the diplomatic delegates, and the high Officials of the Government (the foreign Officials), that God help all of them, and that he grant blessings for the sakes of the chiefs and of our lives, his people's, with praise to God that he should grant peaee. Beloved indeed are Kamehameha III., and the chiefs." I told them "I will present your aloha to Kamehameha III., and if he expresses his aloha to all of you, then we are all blessed, for he loves us all." "So God has allowed us to express our love for the King, Kamehameha III., and may God care for and bring great blessings to the King, Kamehameha III., and his Prime Minister and to the chiefs that assist them both." Long live the King, and may his kingdom be at peaee. From a most humhle servant dwelling in your Kingdom. By S.M. Kamakau.