AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &e. 
Arr. I1.—Notice of the colauat character of the Island of 
Hawaii, in a letter to the Editor, and of various facts 
connected with late observations of the christian Missiona- 
ries in that country, abstracted from a Journal of a Tour 
around Hawaii, the largest of the Sandwich Islands. 
_ THE Island of Owyhee, now called Hawail™ has lo 
famous as the scene of the death of the celebrated English 
navigator, opie James Cook. 
of that scene, although extenuated by some 
Blasio eta y provocation, contributed to stamp the a— 
acter of the natives with the charge of extreme barbarity ; 
charge which seems, however, to have had no peculiar aie 
dation ; the character of the Sryeane appearing to be sub- 
. the same with that of all the inhabitants of the Pol- 
“Bs 
However this fact may have been, an effort was thought 
worth making to elevate this interesting people to the condi- 
tion of civilized and christian men. It is well known, that 
November 1822, and arrived in April 1823. 
* Among these Missionaries was Mr. Joseph eaees who, while a mem- 
der of Yale College, applied himself vie ae to the a of 
ogy and geo , With particular ry extended usefulness as a 
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