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might with a safe conscience demand from 

 others ; and every ship is now required to pay 

 forty Spanish dollars for anchorage in the outer, 

 and eighty in the inner harbour of Hanaruro. 



Wahu is the most fertile of all the islands, 

 and the only one enjoying a secure harbour ; it 

 therefore naturally advances the most rapidly 

 in civilization. Several European and American 

 traders have settled in Hanaruro ; shops have 

 been opened, and houses built in the European 

 style, of wood and stone; some of the former 

 were made in America, and brought here to be 

 put together. The exertions of Marini intro- 

 duced here many European vegetables, the vine 

 and other fruits, which are all in a flourishing- 

 state. He collected and tamed a herd of cows. 

 Goats, sheep, and poultry of all kinds are com- 

 mon. The frequent voyages which the Sand- 

 wich islanders now made, partly in Tameamea's 

 vessels, partly foreign ones, on board which they 

 served as sailors, gradually familiarised them 

 with the manners of more civilized nations. 

 They adopted our costume, but after the Ta- 

 haitian fashion ; considering a complete suit as 

 an unnecessary luxury. Even Tameamea him- 



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