Ql() REMARKS AND OFINIONS. 



lis the picture of" excessive licentiousness, such as 

 is found in tlie Sandwich islands. 



A few leaves of a journal, communicated to us 

 at Cavite, by a Spaniard, who had passed nine 

 months in the Pelew islands, are drawn up in the 

 language of abuse, not of criticism. He makes 

 less impression on us than our honest friend, whose 

 inculpations he, however, circumstantially repeats. 

 *' The man knows the woman in the sight of every 

 body. All are ready to give up their wives for a 

 trifle," &c. ; but he also accuses them of eating 

 human flesh, and scarcely allows them the figures 

 of men. We lay down his melancholy writing 

 after having merely mentioned it : they are probably 

 no longer the innocent and unsuspecting friends 

 of Wilson. What they have learnt from us has 

 not made them better. 



