of going?  There is a great work yet to be done—­a noble work—­a various and a difficult work—­a work worthy of God’s power, God’s resources, and God’s wisdom.  What Christendom has as yet done is scarcely worthy of being called a commencement.  When God shall bring such energies into action as shall be commensurate with the greatness of the work—­when he shall cause every redeemed sinner, by the abundant influence of His Holy Spirit, to lay himself out wholly in the great enterprise, then there will be a sight of moral sublimity that shall rivet the gaze of angels.”

We quote this writer as to what became of the remains of Cook:  “The body of Captain Cook was carried into the interior of the island, the bones secured according to their custom, and the flesh burned in the fire.  The heart, liver, etc., of Captain Cook, were stolen and eaten by some hungry children, who mistook them in the night for the inwards of a dog.  The names of the children were Kupa, Mohoole and Kaiwikokoole.  These men are now all dead.  The last of the number died two years since at the station of Lahaina.  Some of the bones of Captain Cook were sent on board his ship, in compliance with the urgent demands of the officers; and some were kept by the priests as objects of worship.”  The “heart, liver, etc.,” were of course given to the children to eat!  The bones are still hidden, and presumably not much worshiped.  The first of the remains of Captain Cook given up was a mass of his bloody flesh, cut as if from a slaughtered ox.  After some time there were other fragments, including one of his hands which had a well known scar, and perfectly identified it.  Along with this came the story of burning flesh, and denials of cannibalism.  Mr. Dibble speaks of Cook’s “consummate folly and outrageous tyranny of placing a blockade upon a heathen bay, which the natives could not possibly be supposed either to understand or appreciate.”  That blockade, like others, was understood when enforced.  The historian labors to work out a case to justify the murder of Cook because he received worship.  As to the acknowledgment of Cook as the incarnation of Lono, in the Hawaiian Pantheon, Captain King says: 

“Before I proceed to relate the adoration that was paid to Captain Cook, and the peculiar ceremonies with which he was received on this fatal island, it will be necessary to describe the Morai, situated, as I have already mentioned, at the south side of the beach at Kakooa (Kealakeakua).  It was a square solid pile of stones, about forty yards long, twenty broad, and fourteen in height.  The top was flat and well paved, and surrounded by a wooden rail, on which were fixed the skulls of the captives sacrificed on the death of their chiefs.  In the center of the area stood a ruinous old building of wood, connected with the rail on each side by a stone wall, which next divided the whole space into two parts.  On the side next the country were five poles, upward of twenty feet high, supporting an irregular kind of scaffold; on the opposite side toward the sea, stood two small houses with a covered communication.