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HAWAII. 



[letter xviii. 



there will not be an Hawaiian to govern. The chiefs, or aim 

 are a nearly extinct order; and, with a few exceptions, those 

 who remain are childless. In riding through Hawaii I came 



A Hawaiian Lady. 



everywhere upon traces of a once numerous population, where 

 the hill slopes are now only a wilderness of guava scrub, and upon 

 churches and school-houses all too large, while in some hamlets 

 the voices of young children were altogether wanting. This 

 nation, with its elaborate governmental machinery, its churches 

 and institutions, has to me the mournful aspect of a shrivelled 

 and wizened old man dressed in clothing much too big, the gar- 



