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rejoice at that repose. If it is your wish sincerely, and with 

 hope of definite results, to forbid the sale of intoxicating 

 stimulants in Tahiti, begin by forbidding those mighty 

 nations who trade with our island, and are interested in this 

 traffic, from bringing and introducing the destroying liquids 

 in their vessels ! ! But your voices, ye unhappy Tahitians, are 

 too feeble to make themselves heard in England, m France, in 

 Spain, in America ! Well, then, renounce it, deny yourselves ! " 

 The law was passed by ninety-five votes against thirteen, 

 and, in consequence, not merely French wines, but all sorts 

 of liquors, may be sold in Tahiti unchecked by license. The 

 penalties for drunkenness have since then formed an important 

 source of revenue ! 



Among the foreigners settled in Papeete our Expedition 

 had reason to be especially thankful to Mr. W. Howe, member* 

 of the London Missionary Society, and M. Adam Kulczycki,* 

 director of the administration of native matters, two gentle- 

 men, of whom the former has, during a residence of twenty- 

 two years in Tahiti, employed in spreading the gospel and 

 raising the morals and religious standard of his little flock, 

 proved himself as useful a servant, as the latter by his valu- 

 able contributions to our knowledge of the physical condition 

 of the island. Dr. Nadaud, botanist and physician, also laid 



* M. Adam Kulczycki, who was at that period entrusted with the management of 

 native affairs, and is an accomplished Tahitian scholar, besides occupying himself 

 with astronomical and meteorological observations, and geological investigations, has 

 been for seventeen years in the French service, and, a Pole by bulh, served not with- 

 out distinction in the struggles of his native land for Uberty. 



