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We passed the time very pleasantly. There were nice baths in thevicinity, where we laved before breakfast. We devoted the mornings towalking, or lounging over the wide balconies, where, from dawn tilldark, an audience of near a thousand leperos and vagabonds, were thicklyseated on the opposite sides of the street, regarding with markedattention our minutest proceedings. Within a few minutes walk was acircular promenade, closely planted with undergrowth and toweringfoliage, where in the afternoons all the world assembled to behold theirenemies, Los gringos.


For my own part I was excessively diverted with the rarce-show, andthought it highly ridiculous. What greater folly can exist than apingthe forms and etiquette of an European court? If, as is contended, thenatives are not sufficiently advanced in civilization for freegovernment, it is by no means imperative to set up a tinsel puppet, todazzle the eyes of a few half-naked savages; for surely no intelligentperson can be so blind an owl as not to detect and despise the cheat.These vain-glorious ceremonies and pretensions are also, in a certaindegree, the cause of embroiling the Hawaiian Government with othernations, whose consuls or diplomatic agents complain of bad treatment;[Pg 374]but in all the bullying or advice volunteered, incident upon theirindiscretions, there has been none so sensible, and so plainly given, asthe letter of an English Admiral to the King, consequent upon outragescommitted upon a British subject in 1846. Outcries are raised, too, inthese cases, by individuals who have renounced their own country andsworn allegiance to a new native master, about the oppression of American citizens.



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Then what sickly sympathy it is to talk of the wrongs and aggressions,or the rights and laws of European nations as having a bearing upon ahandful of barbarians, subjected to the savage sway of tyrannical nativemasters, when contrasted with the benefits conferred upon the world atlarge, by their being under the enlightened rule of a civilized government!


Since the occupation of the Society and Marquesas groups, Tahiti hasbeen made the See of a bishop. But although the Catholics haveprosecuted their labors with laudable and philanthropic zeal, yet,strange as it may be, they have not met with the same success as theirfellow missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands. Nor have the Tahitians,together with the inhabitants of many of these southern groups,forgotten the early truths taught them by their kind Protestantteachers, and they still lament the untimely fate of John Williams: aman of the noblest piety, possessed of the undaunted resolution andindustry of the Apostles of old, who fell a martyr to his faith andlabors, among the very savages he went to reform.


Rescuing a small cruse of cogniac from the melée, I reclined upon arocky bed, with my heels in the water, for a doze, induced by thesoothing fumes of a pipe! But, alas! hardly were my eyes closed, beforeI was startled by the cries of our frolicksome light-hearted companions,who with a lizard-like facility of grasp, were running up theperpendicular surface of the peak, clinging and climbing by fibres androots, that crept and laced themselves about the crevices of the rocks.Plucking a quantity of bright flowers, the girls bounded into thestream, and then commenced weaving never-ending wreaths and chaplets.This universal fondness for these spontaneous jewels of the earth, withtheir love for bathing, are the most innocent and beautiful naturaltastes possessed by the savages of Polynesia.


The island and the monument form a little cove where weanchored in deep water, although very near the land. Wewere so well hid that, although we had a good view of theocean from our masthead, passing vessels would not beaware of our presence until they saw a shot skipping acrosstheir bows and heard the booming of a gun. From daylightuntil dark a cloud of sea-birds could be seen whirling roundthe top of the monument, where we supposed they had theirnests. Great numbers of them also seemed to resent thepresence of the ship and took no pains to conceal their feelings,flying very close to us while screaming their protest.One day a sixteen-year-old lad by the name of Cox was onthe lookout on the foretopgallant yard when he was savagelyattacked by a huge frigate or man-of-war bird. Theship was rolling slightly, and, to maintain his footing, thelad had to hold on to a backstay with one hand while withthe other he defended himself with his jack-knife. Suddenlythe bird got a hold with both beak and claws on the boy'sclothes and was furiously beating him with his great, powerfulwings. It looked for a moment as though the combatantswould both fall from that lofty height, when a fortunatejab of Cox's knife disabled a wing and down came theleathered fighter to the deck, where he stood off the wholecrew for some little time before they succeeded in killinghim.





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