Hawaii: The Past, Present, and Future of Its Island-kingdom. An Historical Account of the Sandwich Islands (Polynesia)Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 423 Seiten |
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Seite 296 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage reciprocally to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, either directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the...
Seite 379 - They have established schools, reared up native teachers, and so pressed their work that now the proportion of inhabitants who can read and write is greater than in New England. And whereas they found these islanders a nation of half-naked savages, living in the surf and on the sand, eating raw fish, fighting among themselves, tyrannized over by feudal chiefs, and abandoned to sensuality ; they now see them decently clothed, recognizing the...
Seite 296 - In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present declaration, and have affixed thereto the Seal of their Arms. 'Done in duplicate, at London, the 23th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1843.
Seite 295 - Thomas' correspondence with the Admiralty, dated the 17th of February, from the Sandwich Islands ; and I am to request that you will state to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that Her Majesty's Government have received with the highest satisfaction, the whole of Admiral Thomas...
Seite 286 - ... the time being ; the said cession being made with the reservation that it is subject to any arrangement that may have been entered into by the Representatives appointed by us to treat with the Government of her Britannic Majesty, and in the event that no agreement has been executed previous to the date hereof, subject to the decision of her Britannic Majesty's Government on conference with the said Representatives appointed by us ; or in the event of our Representatives not being accessible,...
Seite 396 - ... the contending parties, or of rendering any aid to such enterprises whatever ; and all persons so offending will be liable to the penalties imposed by the laws of nations, as well as by the laws of said States ; and they will in nowise obtain any protection from us as against any penal consequence which they may incur.
Seite 103 - ... our people then threw stones at him, which being seen by his men they fired on us. " ' Captain Cook then endeavoured to stop his men from firing, but could not, on account of the noise. He was turning again to speak to us, when he was stabbed in the back with a pahoa ; a spear was at the same time driven through his body ; he fell into the water, and spoke no more.
Seite 139 - Beyond the arrows, shouts, and views of men. As oftentimes an eagle, ere the sun Throws o'er the varying earth his early ray, Stands solitary — stands immovable Upon some highest cliff, and rolls his eye, Clear, constant, unobservant, unabased, In the cold light above the dews of morn.
Seite 183 - ... co-operation the attempt to destroy the old system would have been ineffectual. Numbers of his profession, joining in the enthusiasm, followed his example. Kaumualii having given his sanction, idolatry was for ever abolished by law ; and the smoke of heathen sanctuaries arose from Hawaii to Kauai.
Seite 73 - ... difference. Their hair is black or brown, strong, and frequently curly ; their complexion is neither yellow like the Malays, nor red like the American Indians, but a kind of olive, and sometimes reddish-brown.