TAHITIAN LITERATURE. 237 
selves shall become writers. In the investigation 
and illustration of many things connected with 
the peculiar genius and character of their own 
countrymen, they will have advantages which no 
individual, who is a foreigner, can ever possess; 
and we may hope that the time is not far distant, 
when they will not only have standard works by 
native authors, but that their periodical literature 
will circulate widely, and spread knowledge and 
piety among all classes of the people. 
