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THE SANDWICH ISUNDS. http://www.archive.org/stream/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog_djvu.txt[1/13/2016 4:37:46 PM] Full text of "Hawaii: the past, present, and future of its island-kingdom" 'Kv Si ^tdti icai oXKroov, iwii vit rot tvaitv c^rtaQ, "Ofi. IX. EwTf*^'- hy 'ilClAn Vr-.a^d rt.-^. pTflii- ^ -• " ■ *■ ^^^if^'^^'^^A^ ^?_- HAWAII: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OP ITS ISLAND -KINGDOM. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS POLYNESIA) O MANLEY SOPKINS HAWAIIAN CONBUL-OKNKBAL KTC. WITH A PREFACE BY THE BISHOP OF OXFORD. Cascade in the Waialua Valley. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CONTINUED. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1866. http://www.archive.org/stream/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog_djvu.txt[1/13/2016 4:37:46 PM] Full text of "Hawaii: the past, present, and future of its island-kingdom" LOKn05 raiKTBD BY gPOTT18W00D« AHD Oa KSW-RTRKRT RQUABX TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN EAEL RUSSELL, K.G. ITBST LORD OF THE TRKASUBT &c THBSB PAGBS AAB (with his liOBDSHIP's FSBXISSION) OIUTKFULLY DBDICATBD. AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOiSD EDITION. I ENDEAVOURED in my volume on Hawaii, to give a short but clear account of the state and history of that kingdom. Since completing its pages, three years ago, the march of events there has been rapid and important. The extreme interest awakened in this country by the visit to England of the young and widowed Queen of Hawaii has called fresh attention to the islands; and the telescope has been, as it were, frequently turned towards their distant and faintly- shining cluster, as if endeavouring to separate it into its constituent and many-coloured spheres. It has, consequently, been thought desirable to re-edit my work, bnnging the history down to the present time. In a series of five new chapters I have described the blow which fell upon Hawaii by the death of its young Prince Boyal ; the yet heavier grief of the people when their beloved sovereign prematurely died, at the close of 1863; the installation and progress of the English http://www.archive.org/stream/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog_djvu.txt[1/13/2016 4:37:46 PM] Full text of "Hawaii: the past, present, and future of its island-kingdom" VIU AUTHOR S PBEFACE TO mission for planting a scion of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the North Pacific ; the change in the Consti- tution effected by the present sovereign — which some have named the Cowp d'Etdt ; and lastly, I have given a sketch of the life and important services of Robert Crichton Wyllie, whose death has lately taken place in the islands. On the appearance of my book a few angry com- ments were made on it, chiefly by or on account of the American missionaries. What I wrote, I strove to write impartially, without malice and without fear. One lady of American birth, but long resident in the islands, eminent in literature as in other walks of life, has suggested in print, that two gentlemen should set out from Honolulu to Europe, for the purpose of castigating — ^not my history, but myself. Such a step would seem a very laborious means for effecting a very small object. Should these correctors of the press arrive, they would perhaps find me different from what they had been led to suppose, and not the enemy or detractor of that great nation which is * bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh,' whose late agony of internal conflict we watched so sorrowfully. A closer acquaintance might elicit that English and American hearts beat more in unison than they even themselves suspect; and it is possible that ere our parting, we three might be found kneeling together in prayer to the Common Father, that He would, by all means, send out the light and THE SECOND EDITION. IZ grace and truth of Hia Gospel into every dark comer of earth and ocean, and cause it to shine abundantly not only on Hawaii, but on * the regions beyond.' In the spirit of conciliation I have in this edition withdrawn the sketch of a person who played a con- siderable part in the earlier history of the country; because I find that the attached friends of the late Mr. Eichards supposed that the drawing — which was a sketch from recollection only, and somewhat altered in engraving — was intentionally a caricature, a thing which was not meant. I have enriched the present volume with a few ex- tracts which I have been permitted to make from the letters and journals of Archdeacon and Mrs. Mason. http://www.archive.org/stream/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog/hawaiipastprese00hopkgoog_djvu.txt[1/13/2016 4:37:46 PM] Full text of "Hawaii: the past, present, and future of its island-kingdom" I have added an important summary of the commerce of Hawaii, and an able statement concerning the trade and producing powers of the islands drawn up by W. W. Follett Synge, Esq., late British Commissioner and Gonsul-General in Hawaii, now our Consul- General in Havana and Judge of the Court of Mixed Commissions. Some fresh works touching, in part or entirely, on the islands have come into my hands ; of which the most important is the brochure published in Boston, by the Rev. Dr. Rufus Anderson, of which some mention will be found in these pages. In my chapter on the English Church Mission, I have endeavoured to correct several misconceptions X AUTHOR S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. about it which have obtained currency in England, America, and elsewhere. Whilst re-editing a work which deals with a state of things existing four years previously, I have been un- able altogether to avoid some literary inconsistency. In reproducing generally my former volume, it was necessary to correct some figures to the present time, and, in places, to complete the history of transactions which were then in progress. A few paragraphs, there- fore, belong to two periods. I can only ask indulgence for a defect which is almost unavoidable.