6 HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



presses, which are generally in active employment. The workmen 

 are all natives, and, from Mr. Rogers's account, they work very 

 steadily, during the hours of labour, throughout the year. This 

 occupation is considered as the road to preferment; for the know- 

 ledge and habits of industry they acquire in it naturally raise them 

 above their fellows, and they are soon required for the wants of the 

 country, either in teaching schools or other employments under the 

 government. 



I was told that upwards of four reams of paper are printed daily, 

 affording an extensive circulation of books in the native language. 

 Eleven thousand copies of the whole Bible have been printed, and two 

 weekly papers are published, one in English, called the Polynesian, the 

 other in the Hawaiian language, which the natives generally read. 

 They have likewise a book-bindery, under the direction of the society. 

 Many tracts are also published, some of which are by native authors. 

 Of these I cannot pass at least one without naming him. This is 

 David Maro, who is highly esteemed by all who know him, and who 

 lends the missionaries his aid, in mind as well as example, in amelio- 

 rating the condition of his countrymen, and checking licentiousness. 

 At the same time he sets an example of industry, by farming with his 

 own hands, and manufactures from his sugar-cane an excellent mo- 

 lasses. 



Though not actually connected with the mission, the Seaman's 

 Chapel, and its pious and enlightened pastor, the Rev. Mr. Diell, assist 

 in doing great good among the sailors who frequent the port. The 

 chapel is a neat wooden building, and is chiefly frequented by the 

 foreign residents and sailors in port. From its cupola, on the Sabbath, 

 always waves the Bethel flag; and it is generally well attended. The 

 Rev. Mr. Diell, to the regret of all, was about returning home. He 

 was in the last stage of consumption, but hoped to reach his native 

 land before his dissolution, which he felt and knew was rapidly ap- 

 proaching. I regretted to hear that in this hope he was disappointed, 

 having died on the homeward passage. He was truly a pattern of 

 resignation, and was beloved by the whole community. He had done 

 much, I have been told, to soften the asperities between the contending 

 factions, and to arrest the course of vice, which, on his arrival, he 

 found stalking abroad, regardless of moral laws, and setting at nought 

 all those enacted by the government for the protection of the peace and 

 quietness of the well-disposed, as well as for punishing those who were 

 guilty of crime. 



As the natives, under the tuition of the missionaries, emerged from 

 barbarism, instead of deriving encouragement from their intercourse 



