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5 1 4 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
fornian, and the remainder from England, Mexico, Chile, and other
sources.
"Four newspapers in the Hawaiian tongue have been sustained by
the missionaries. The first, Lama Hawaii, was commenced in 1833.
The present Ka Elele, besides much religious matter, gives a summary
of general news, publishes Government notices, and affords scope for
the literary efforts of the natives themselves, some of whom manifest
respectable powers of thought and composition.
" I t is computed that 70,000 of the population have learned to read
and 65,444,000 printed pages have been issued from the mission press,
embracing, among other works, two complete editions, of 10,000 each,
of the Holy Scriptures, three of the New Testament, amounting to
30,000 copies, Worcesters Sacred Geography, Universal Geography,
Geographical Questions, Scripture Chronology and History, Animals
of the Earth, with a chart. History of Beasts, Hawaiian History,
Church History, Mathematics, embracing Geometry, Trigonometry,
Mensuration, Surveying and Navigation, Colburn's Algebra, Anatomy,
Wayland's Moral Philosophy, Colburn's Intellectual Arithmetic, Tract
on Astronomy, Maps of Universal Geography, and Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress.
"The works published have been altogether of a devotional or educational
class. More interest would have been awakened could some
others of a less grave and more historic character have been included."
"A moral sentiment, founded more upon a classification of certain
actions, either as evil or as good, and their attendant punishment* or
rewards than upon any definite ideas of sin and virtue considered in
their relations to moral purity and the love of the Father, pervades the
nation. With the more enlightened something superior to this prevails.
Consequently, as in older Christianized communities, a man
enjoys respect in proportion to his moral qualifications. Vice is condemned
and virtue applauded. Many, of course, are to be found more
fond of a good name than of the means necessary for its attainment.
Publicly they are one being, privately another.
" The very fact of the necessity of the deception shows a great advancement
in moral sentiment since the days of Liholiho, and instead of being
considered a reproach to the missionaries should be hailed as a favorable
symptom of their labors, the dawn of further improvement. In humanity,
care for the sick and aged, their domestic relations, honesty, temperance,
and systematic industry there has been great advancement.
From a warlike, treacherous, and cruel people they have become mild,
tractable, and desirous of knowledge. The intelligent observer will
find much in their present character to gratify him and more to surprise
when he contrasts them with what they were but a score of years
since. But he who goes among them, his imagination picturing a
nation changed from brutal savages, by the spirit pf God, to guileless
Christians, worshiping Jehovah in all the innocence and strength of a
first love, their family altars emblems of purity and happiness, their
congregations simple and sincere, and their dispositions and deportment
refined to the high standard of Christian excellence in his own
country, will be sadly disappointed.
" I t is still difficult to make the natives understand the nature of
truth. They have been so accustomed, from their earliest years, to
habits of deception, that with very many, perhaps the majority, it may
be doubted whether any other sensation arises from the detection of a
falsehood than mortification at being discovered. In no other point
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 515
are they more obtuse, but this moral bluntness is gradually wearing
away. Licentiousness is a chief vice of the nation; not that they are
much worse in this respect than nations generally residing within the
tropics, but it continues to be their most prominent trait. A few years
ago, in its protean forms, it was common to all, and as undisguised as
the light of day. Now it hides its head, and seeks a new garment to
conceal its foul markings. The following table of crime for Oahu will
serve to show the proportion of other offenses to those of sensuality.
[t is taken from the Kama Hawaii, of January 16,1839, a native paper,
but the period embraced in the report is not given. And it should be
recollected that but a small proportion of the latter offenses are ever
detected or exposed. A number of foreigners are embraced in the list,
chiefly for riot, mutiny, and desertion.
Offenses.
Manslaughter 4
Theft 4fc
Riot 32
False witness 48
Desertion 30
Mutiny 15
Seduction 18
Lewdness 81
Adultery 246
Total 522
"Another table of purely native cases for Honolulu, taken from the
records of the 'inferior court' from January 1, 1846, to December 4,
of the same year, gives the following striking result:
Offense. Men. Women. Total.
Adultery, fornication
Theft
Gambling
Desecration of Sabbath..
Reviling language.
Heathenish practices
Assault and battery .
Drunkenness
Furious riding
Rape
Interference with police
Street walking
Slander
Passing false coin
Desertion of husband...
12G
43
35
20
12
3
7
6
6
2
3
Total- 275
127
3
3
8
2
1
1
152
252 a
38
38
14
4
8
6
e
2
3
4
1
1
3
427
"The above table shows a conviction of 427 cases out of a population
of about 9,000. To these should be added 121 others, tried before the
police court, making in all rather more than 600 cases for 1846. Of the
121, 38 were for licentiousness and 43 for stealing. But few occur for
fighting, the Hawaiians being a very peaceable people. A great deal
of petty thieving exists, particularly towards foreignera to steal from
whom is not viewed so disreputable as from themselves. The standard
of morality, it will be Been, is low, particularly among the men} but

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 {|width="50%"
-{{4cr|Offense.|Men.|Women.|Total.}}
+{{4cr|<small>Offense.</small>|<small>Men.</small>|<small>Women.</small>|<small>Total.</small>}}
-{{4cr|Adultery, fornication|126|127|253}}
+{{4cr|<small>Adultery, fornication</small>|<small>126</small>|<small>127</small>|<small>253</small>}}
-{{4cr|Theft|43|3|46}}
+{{4cr|<small>Theft</small>|<small>43</small>|<small>3</small>|<small>46</small>}}
-{{4cr|Gambling|35|3|38}}
+{{4cr|<small>Gambling</small>|<small>35</small>|<small>3</small>|<small>38</small>}}
-{{4cr|Desecration of Sabbath|20|8|38}}
+{{4cr|<small>Desecration of Sabbath</small>|<small>20</small>|<small>8</small>|<small>38</small>}}
-{{4cr|Reviling language|12|2|14}}
+{{4cr|<small>Reviling language</small>|<small>12</small>|<small>2</small>|<small>14</small>}}
-{{4cr|Heathenish practices|3|1|4}}
+{{4cr|<small>Heathenish practice</small>s|<small>3</small>|<small>1</small>|<small>4</small>}}
-{{4cr|Assault and battery|7|1|8}}
+{{4cr|<small>Assault and battery</small>|<small>7</small>|<small>1</small>|<small>8</small>}}
-{{4cr|Drunkenness|6|....|6}}
+{{4cr|<small>Drunkenness</small>|<small>6</small>|....|<small>6</small>}}
-{{4cr|Furious riding|6|....|6}}
+{{4cr|<small>Furious riding</small>|<small>6</small>|....|<small>6</small>}}
-{{4cr|Rape|2|....|2}}
+{{4cr|<small>Rape</small>|<small>2</small>|....|<small>2</small>}}
-{{4cr|Interference with police|3|....|3}}
+{{4cr|<small>Interference with police</small>|<small>3</small>|....|<small>3</small>}}
-{{4cr|Street walking|....|4|4}}
+{{4cr|<small>Street walking</small>|....|<small>4</small>|<small>4</small>}}
-{{4cr|Slander|1|....|1}}
+{{4cr|<small>Slander</small>|<small>1</small>|....|<small>1</small>}}
-{{4cr|Passing false coin|1|....|1}}
+{{4cr|<small>Passing false coin</small>|<small>1</small>|....|<small>1</small>}}
-{{4cr|Desertion of husband|....|3|3}}
+{{4cr|<small>Desertion of husband</small>|....|<small>3</small>|<small>3</small>}}
 {{4cr| |----|----|----}}
-{{4cr|Total|275|152|427}}
+{{4cr|<small>Total</small>|<small>275</small>|<small>152</small>|<small>427</small>}}
 |}
 "The above table shows a conviction of 427 cases out of a population of about 9,000. To these should be added 121 others, tried before the police court, making in all rather more than 600 cases for 1846. Of the 121, 38 were for licentiousness and 43 for stealing. But few occur for fighting, the Hawaiians being a very peaceable people. A great deal of petty thieving exists, particularly towards foreigners to steal from whom is not viewed so disreputable as from themselves. The standard of morality, it will be seen, is low, particularly among the men; but

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 are they more obtuse, but this moral bluntness is gradually wearing away. Licentiousness is a chief vice of the nation; not that they are much worse in this respect than nations generally residing within the tropics, but it continues to be their most prominent trait. A few years ago, in its protean forms, it was common to all, and as undisguised as the light of day. Now it hides its head, and seeks a new garment to conceal its foul markings. The following table of crime for Oahu will serve to show the proportion of other offenses to those of sensuality. It is taken from the Kuma Hawaii, of January 16,1839, a native paper, but the period embraced in the report is not given. And it should be recollected that but a small proportion of the latter offenses are ever detected or exposed. A number of foreigners are embraced in the list, chiefly for riot, mutiny, and desertion.
-*** Jere fix table below ***
+<small>''Offenses''</small>
+{|width="50%"
-Offenses. Manslaughter 4 Theft 4fc Riot 32 False witness 48 Desertion 30 Mutiny 15 Seduction 18 Lewdness 81 Adultery 246 Total 522
+{{2cr|<small>Manslaughter</small>|<small>4</small>}}
 "Another table of purely native cases for Honolulu, taken from the records of the 'inferior court' from January 1, 1846, to December 4, of the same year, gives the following striking result:
-*** Jere fix table below ***
+{|width="50%"
+{{4cr|Offense.|Men.|Women.|Total.}}
-Offense. Men. Women. Total. Adultery, fornication Theft Gambling Desecration of Sabbath.. Reviling language. Heathenish practices Assault and battery . Drunkenness Furious riding Rape Interference with police Street walking Slander Passing false coin Desertion of husband... 12G 43 35 20 12 3 7 6 6 2 3 Total- 275 127 3 3 8 2 1 1 152 252 a 38 38 14 4 8 6 e 2 3 4 1 1 3 427
+{{4cr|Adultery, fornication|126|127|253}}
 "The above table shows a conviction of 427 cases out of a population of about 9,000. To these should be added 121 others, tried before the police court, making in all rather more than 600 cases for 1846. Of the 121, 38 were for licentiousness and 43 for stealing. But few occur for fighting, the Hawaiians being a very peaceable people. A great deal of petty thieving exists, particularly towards foreigners to steal from whom is not viewed so disreputable as from themselves. The standard of morality, it will be seen, is low, particularly among the men; but

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-1 4 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
+{{p|514}}
-fornian, and the remainder from England, Mexico, Chile, and other
-sources.
+and the remainder from England, Mexico, Chile, and other sources.
 "Four newspapers in the Hawaiian tongue have been sustained by
-the missionaries. The first, Lama Hawaii, was commenced in 1833.
+"Four newspapers in the Hawaiian tongue have been sustained by the missionaries. The first, Lama Hawaii, was commenced in 1833. The present Ka Elele, besides much religious matter, gives a summary of general news, publishes Government notices, and affords scope for the literary efforts of the natives themselves, some of whom manifest respectable powers of thought and composition.
 The present Ka Elele, besides much religious matter, gives a summary
-of general news, publishes Government notices, and affords scope for
+"It is computed that 70,000 of the population have learned to read and 65,444,000 printed pages have been issued from the mission press, embracing, among other works, two complete editions, of 10,000 each, of the Holy Scriptures, three of the New Testament, amounting to 30,000 copies, Worcesters Sacred Geography, Universal Geography, Geographical Questions, Scripture Chronology and History, Animals of the Earth, with a chart. History of Beasts, Hawaiian History, Church History, Mathematics, embracing Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying and Navigation, Colburn's Algebra, Anatomy, Wayland's Moral Philosophy, Colburn's Intellectual Arithmetic, Tract on Astronomy, Maps of Universal Geography, and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
 the literary efforts of the natives themselves, some of whom manifest
-respectable powers of thought and composition.
+"The works published have been altogether of a devotional or educational class. More interest would have been awakened could some others of a less grave and more historic character have been included."
-" I t is computed that 70,000 of the population have learned to read
-and 65,444,000 printed pages have been issued from the mission press,
+"A moral sentiment, founded more upon a classification of certain actions, either as evil or as good, and their attendant punishments or rewards than upon any definite ideas of sin and virtue considered in their relations to moral purity and the love of the Father, pervades the nation. With the more enlightened something superior to this prevails. Consequently, as in older Christianized communities, a man enjoys respect in proportion to his moral qualifications. Vice is condemned and virtue applauded. Many, of course, are to be found more fond of a good name than of the means necessary for its attainment. Publicly they are one being, privately another.
 embracing, among other works, two complete editions, of 10,000 each,
-of the Holy Scriptures, three of the New Testament, amounting to
+"The very fact of the necessity of the deception shows a great advancement in moral sentiment since the days of Liholiho, and instead of being considered a reproach to the missionaries should be hailed as a favorable symptom of their labors, the dawn of further improvement. In humanity, care for the sick and aged, their domestic relations, honesty, temperance, and systematic industry there has been great advancement. From a warlike, treacherous, and cruel people they have become mild, tractable, and desirous of knowledge. The intelligent observer will find much in their present character to gratify him and more to surprise when he contrasts them with what they were but a score of years since. But he who goes among them, his imagination picturing a nation changed from brutal savages, by the spirit of God, to guileless Christians, worshiping Jehovah in all the innocence and strength of a first love, their family altars emblems of purity and happiness, their congregations simple and sincere, and their dispositions and deportment refined to the high standard of Christian excellence in his own country, will be sadly disappointed.
 ,000 copies, Worcesters Sacred Geography, Universal Geography,
-Geographical Questions, Scripture Chronology and History, Animals
+"It is still difficult to make the natives understand the nature of truth. They have been so accustomed, from their earliest years, to habits of deception, that with very many, perhaps the majority, it may be doubted whether any other sensation arises from the detection of a falsehood than mortification at being discovered. In no other point
 of the Earth, with a chart. History of Beasts, Hawaiian History,
-Church History, Mathematics, embracing Geometry, Trigonometry,
+{{p|515}}
 Mensuration, Surveying and Navigation, Colburn's Algebra, Anatomy,
-Wayland's Moral Philosophy, Colburn's Intellectual Arithmetic, Tract
+are they more obtuse, but this moral bluntness is gradually wearing away. Licentiousness is a chief vice of the nation; not that they are much worse in this respect than nations generally residing within the tropics, but it continues to be their most prominent trait. A few years ago, in its protean forms, it was common to all, and as undisguised as the light of day. Now it hides its head, and seeks a new garment to conceal its foul markings. The following table of crime for Oahu will serve to show the proportion of other offenses to those of sensuality. It is taken from the Kuma Hawaii, of January 16,1839, a native paper, but the period embraced in the report is not given. And it should be recollected that but a small proportion of the latter offenses are ever detected or exposed. A number of foreigners are embraced in the list, chiefly for riot, mutiny, and desertion.
 on Astronomy, Maps of Universal Geography, and Bunyan's Pilgrim's
-Progress.
+*** Jere fix table below ***
 "The works published have been altogether of a devotional or educational
-class. More interest would have been awakened could some
+Offenses. Manslaughter 4 Theft 4fc Riot 32 False witness 48 Desertion 30 Mutiny 15 Seduction 18 Lewdness 81 Adultery 246 Total 522
 others of a less grave and more historic character have been included."
-"A moral sentiment, founded more upon a classification of certain
+"Another table of purely native cases for Honolulu, taken from the records of the 'inferior court' from January 1, 1846, to December 4, of the same year, gives the following striking result:
-actions, either as evil or as good, and their attendant punishment* or
-rewards than upon any definite ideas of sin and virtue considered in
+*** Jere fix table below ***
 their relations to moral purity and the love of the Father, pervades the
-nation. With the more enlightened something superior to this prevails.
+Offense. Men. Women. Total. Adultery, fornication Theft Gambling Desecration of Sabbath.. Reviling language. Heathenish practices Assault and battery . Drunkenness Furious riding Rape Interference with police Street walking Slander Passing false coin Desertion of husband... 12G 43 35 20 12 3 7 6 6 2 3 Total- 275 127 3 3 8 2 1 1 152 252 a 38 38 14 4 8 6 e 2 3 4 1 1 3 427
 Consequently, as in older Christianized communities, a man
-enjoys respect in proportion to his moral qualifications. Vice is condemned
+"The above table shows a conviction of 427 cases out of a population of about 9,000. To these should be added 121 others, tried before the police court, making in all rather more than 600 cases for 1846. Of the 121, 38 were for licentiousness and 43 for stealing. But few occur for fighting, the Hawaiians being a very peaceable people. A great deal of petty thieving exists, particularly towards foreigners to steal from whom is not viewed so disreputable as from themselves. The standard of morality, it will be seen, is low, particularly among the men; but