394 HONOLULU. 
prepared to hear. A warfare was, however, kept up between the 
individuals belonging to the rival nations of England and the United 
States, which afforded ample room for the tongue of scandal to indulge 
itself. The missionaries wisely abstained from all connexion with 
either party ; and the governor, with much energy and decorum, sus- 
tained with impartiality the supremacy of the laws. 
STREET VIEW AT HONOLULU. 
