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they led while in their savage state ; and thus their early impressions 

 remaining still uneradicated, they return almost as soon as they leave 

 the school to their savage state, finding it more easy than to keep up 

 their partially civilized habits ; whereas, if they were taken very 

 young, and put under a course of discipline that would make their 

 improvement permanent, and were, besides, taught the way of main- 

 taining themselves as they now are, by useful employment, they would 

 not be so likely to relapse into their former habits, or adopt those of 

 their parents. I have little doubt, that such a course would be a great 

 means of reforming many of their parents, as far as they are sus- 

 ceptible of reformation ; for the relation between parents and children 

 is altogether different with them from what it is among us, parents 

 being invariably under the control of the children, after the latter have 

 grown up 



The plan of taking the children, as is done, from the dregs of the 

 natives, is, I think, another mistake. The higher orders in a monar- 

 chical system of government ought to be more carefully instructed than 

 the others. This principle is admitted by the establishment of the 

 chiefs' school at Honolulu, and I see no reason why it should not 

 equally apply to the children of the petty chiefs, or second class. I am, 

 indeed, satisfied that greater advantages would be derived from such 

 a course, and the school would, in this way, become more popular. 

 Parents of this rank would, also, be enabled to assist in its mainte- 

 nance, and the lower orders, as elsewhere, would imitate the higher. 



I must do full justice to the good fare and kind attentions of Mrs. 

 Greene; and from the appearance of the supper-table, I could readily 

 have believed myself in New England instead of the Hawaiian Islands. 



Early the next morning, Mr. Drayton and myself went to breakfast 

 with Mr. Baily and his wife. He is the assistant missionary at this 

 station, and superintends the school for boys. It being Saturday, and 

 a holiday, we had not the pleasure of seeing the scholars. 



Mr. Baily had provided bountifully for us, and there was ample 

 evidence here that this was a land of plenty, to all those who exercised 

 ordinary industry. 



After breakfast, Mr. Greene was obliging enough to accompany us 

 to see the sugar-mills and taro-plantations, in the valley of the Wailuku. 

 The sugar-manufactory is an experiment of the king, and is now under 

 the superintendence of a Chinese. By some awkward mistake in 

 making the agreement, his majesty's interests were entirely lost sight 

 of, and it is said that he will lose money, although his agents have a 

 pi-ospect of considerable gain. The iron-work of the mill was imported 

 from the United States, and is turned by water-power. The water 



