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latter I had the pleasure of visiting at an early day after my arrival, 

 and was much delighted with the order and cleanliness of the whole 

 establishment. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke superintend the amusements 

 as well as the studies of the children, and impress upon them the 

 necessity of application. Much attention is paid to them, and being 

 removed from all contagion from without, they have many advan- 

 tages over the other natives. This was the best regulated school I 

 saw in the islands ; the pupils, consisting of eleven boys and girls, 

 were under good management and control. The object of this school 

 is exclusively the education of the royal family ; to form their cha- 

 racters, teach them, and watch over their morals. Much good, it is 

 thought, will accrue from this system of education. I am not, 

 however, satisfied it will have the full effect that is hoped for, or that 

 the impressions given them are those that are proper in the education 

 of princes. The system pursued rather tends to republican forms ; 

 a good, practical, religious education, however, may be the result. 

 How far it is intended to carry it I did not learn. I have seldom 

 seen better behaved children than those in this school. 



Connected with Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, I must not omit to mention 

 John Ii, who is their guardian and protector. During my stay I saw 

 them frequently. The Saturday after my arrival, I had them on 

 board the ship, with their tutors. They were hardly to be distin- 

 guished from well-bred children of our own country ; were equally 

 well dressed, and are nearly as light in colour. 



After a further acquaintance with Honolulu, it appeared much 

 more advanced in the scale of civilization than I thought it at first, 

 and I found some difficulty in being able to realize that I was among 

 a Polynesian nation, so different are they from the other islanders in 

 the scale of improvement. 



One cannot but be struck with seeing the natives winding their 

 way along the different thoroughfares, laden with all kinds of pro- 

 visions, wood, charcoal, and milk, to supply the market and their 

 regular customers. Indeed there are quite as many thus employed as 

 in any place of the same number of inhabitants in our own country. 



Their usual mode of carrying burdens is to suspend them with 

 cords from the ends of a stick ; this is laid across the shoulders, and 

 so accustomed are they to carry the load in this manner, that they 

 will sometimes increase the weight by adding a heavy stone, in order 

 to balance it. The stick on which they carry their load is made of 

 the Hibiscus tiliaceus, which is very light and toiigh. Instead of 



