I may here add that the purpose of the kahunapule and the meeting of the two women were not understood by me until after the trial was over and the jury, after being out two hours, came in with a verdict in my favor. During these two hours I sat in the center of the courtroom with my head resting on my hand. In the hall way of the courtroom sat ten or fifteen members of our Church, intensely interested in and anxious as to what the verdict should be. As I refused to go to lunch with the sheriff the natives believed I was praying during the two hours the jury was out, for they knew of the kahunapule though I did not, and they wanted to see which God would prove to be the more powerful. When the jury came in and announced the verdict every Church member gathered around me with expressions of "aloha" far to exceed what the two women had manifested to me on the street, although that was so public I felt ashamed. The two women left the courtroom and repaired to their Kahunapule, moaning and lamenting as they traversed the streets of Honolulu. As the accusers departed my people informed me for the first time of the action of the kahunapule and told how anxiously they had awaited the result. They remarked "we watched you during the two hours the jury were out and believed you were praying to God." At the time of the occurrence of the court proceedings my wife and I were in Honolulu ready to take the next steamer for San Francisco. Thirty-three years have passed since then, and I am still alive, notwithstanding the efforts to pray me to death. H. H. C. [Transcriber's Note: Misprints or misspellings in the text have been corrected, or are otherwise as they appear in the book. Changes include: Prophet, Massacre, unusual, following, ridicule, thereafter, missionary, displayed, concerned, repudiated, although, inmates, bishop, presume, Colonel, murderous, without, wilderness, Millard and scientific.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Gems of Reminiscence, by Various