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of their disasters originate in certain tea-party excitements, 

 under the influence of which benevolent-looking gentlemen 

 in white cravats solicit alms, and old ladies in spectacles, 

 and young ladies in sober russet low gowns, contribute 

 sixpences towards the creation of a fund, the object of 

 which is to ameliorate the spiritual condition of the Polyne- 

 sians, but whose end has almost invariably been to accomplish 

 their temporal destruction I 



" Let the savages be civilised, but civilise them with 

 benefits, and not with evils ; and let heathenism be des- 

 troyed, but not by destroying the heathen. The Anglo- 

 Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part 

 of the North American continent ; but with it they have 

 likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. 

 Civilisation is gradually sweeping from the earth the 

 lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the 

 shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers. 



" Among the islands of Polynesia, no sooner are the 

 images overturned, the temples demolished, and the idolaters 

 converted into nominal Christians, than disease, vice, and 

 premature death make their appearance. The depopulated 

 land is then recruited from the rapacious hordes of enlightened 

 individuals who settle themselves within its borders, and 

 clamorously announce the progress of the Truth. Neat 

 villas, trim gardens, shaven lawns, spires, and cupolas arise, 

 while the poor savage soon finds himself an interloper in 

 the country of his fathers, and that too on the very site of 

 the hut where he was born. 



" During my whole stay on the island I never witnessed 

 a single quarrel, nor any thing that in the slightest degree 

 approached even to a dispute. The natives appeared to 

 form one household, whose members were bound together 

 by the ties of strong affection. The love of kindred I 



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