Note 1 — A Song of Jesus.1

This chant is another of those Lahainaluna students’ compositions, which reveals the biblical training by the mission teachers in its reproduced New Testament narrative. The original paper is without date, or signature, but from accompanying compositions, dated 1837, it very likely belongs to that period. In character it resembles Kekupuohi’s Creation chant of a few years earlier, and may have been influenced thereby, the original of which, and its translation, by Rev. L. Andrews, will be found in the Hawaiian Spectator of 1839, Vol. II, pp. 78–80, and termed by him a remarkable production. ↑