Remarks on the Tour Around Hawaii, by the Missionaries, Messrs

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Excerpt from Remarks on the Tour Around Hawaii, by the Missionaries, Messrs.: Ellis, Thurston, Bishop, and Goodrich, in 1823The visit of Cook to the Sandwich Islands, and the interest ing accounts given by that celebrated navigator, 'of the natives, greatly confirmed me in the opinion that man was highly en dowed by his Maker, and designed to be happy. Fully imbu ed with these impressions, I heard with much regret of the in tended mission' to convert these' Islanders to what is called Christianity, as I was well aware that the same spirit of bigot ry and intolerance which had proved' so fatal in all other mis sions of the same character, would have a like result in this. In the first publication of the Tour around Hawaii, by the missionaries, I perceived - with great pleasure, that, although these natives had suffered much from their intercourse with civilized man, they still retained a portion of those primitive Virtues, which had engaged the respect and sympathy of the wise and good. The editor has, however, in an appendix, enumerated all the vices which can be named, as common to these Islanders 5 unhappily for the human race, especially those who are civilized, these odious vices can be found' to exist in every country, although practised in secret.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.