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which Mr. Young has erected without jutlgment, is 

 merely a square of dry brick wall, without bastions 

 or towers, and without ditches ; and does not an- 

 swerthe double intention of the Governor, to defend 

 himself against an external attack, and an inter- 

 nal enemy. The fort ought to be regularly built 

 where it now stands, and there ought to be a bat- 

 tery on the external edge of the reef, to defend 

 the entrance of the harbour. Notwithstanding 

 their stock of ammunition and arms, the natives are 

 not yet acquainted with the management of artil- 

 lery, or with our military art. A serious inva- 

 sion might appear to be decisive j but the con- 

 querors would only have conquered the earth for 

 their grave. This people will not submit to 

 strangers ; and it is too powerful, numerous, and 

 martial, to be quickly extirpated, like the natives 

 of the Mariana islands. 



This is the political situation of the Sandwich 

 islands. What is affirmed in the Missionary Regis- 

 ter of 1818, p. 5% that a son of Tamori, king of 

 Atooi, who is at present educated in the school of 

 the foreign missions in Cornwall, (Connecticut, 

 North America,) with other Owhyeeans, is the 

 real heir of all the Sandwich islands, betrays in- 

 conceivable ignorance. 



No missionaries had yet come to the Sandwicli 

 islands ; and, in truth, they could promise them- 

 selves but little fruit among this sensual people. 

 Christianity cannot be established in Eastern Poly- 

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