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open hostility towards men armed and prepared, 

 and who had refused to be at peace with himself 

 and his friends ? The number of natives wantonly 

 shot, at various times, either by Captain Cook him- 

 self, or his officers and men, upon the most frivolous 

 occasions, is ten times greater than all those who 

 fell in the Typee war ; and the frequent recurrence 

 of these cruelties, either proves the necessity of seve- 

 rity, or the barbarity of that navigator. 



The disasters which befell the party left at Nooa- 

 heevah, under lieut. Gamble, as will appear in the 

 continuation of this Journal, for want of power to 

 enforce the system adopted by Captain Porter, prove 

 the propriety and necessity of the course he pursued. 

 When his return was no longer looked for, the 

 massacre of his people, the destruction of one ship, 

 and the narrow escape of the other, w as the conse- 

 quence of the absence of that salutary fear, w hich 

 alone is to be calculated upon in an intercourse with 

 savages. Those who live in safety by their fire- 

 sides, under the protection of the laws, and within 

 the safeguard of social and civil life, are little quali- 

 fied to sit in judgment upon the actions of men w ho 

 are placed in situations where their safety is perpe- 

 tually jeopardized, and their minds tasked for the 

 necessary measures of self-defence. If it is impor- 

 tant to the permanent interests of mankind, that 

 civilization should extend over the whole world ; 

 that barbarism should give place to the lights of 

 philosophy, and the arts of refinement ; if it is just, 

 as it has been practised in all ages, for the white man 

 voluntarily to go vi'here this danger occurs ; it seems 

 hardly just, that Captain Porter should be singled 

 out to be stigmatized as a monster, because he 

 adopted the measures necessary to his security. All 

 that have ever been placed in similar situations, 

 have taken upon themselves to judge of the means 



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