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seemed truly concerned at our departure, and loaded us 
with presents of fruit and other provisions, besides many 
curious things of the manufacture of the Islands. We trust 
that our visit will have been beneficial to the country. It 
has given them the assurance they have long wished, of pro¬ 
tection against foreign encroachment: and that feeling of 
independence, which such assurance is calculated to main¬ 
tain, will encourage them in all the schemes for improve¬ 
ment, which their uncultivated, but not unawakened, minds 
have already begun to desire. We left the regular suc¬ 
cessor to the dominion in full possession of his hereditary 
rights, under the care of the friends and guardians of his 
family. A public acknowledgement of the freedom and 
hereditary rights of the chiefs and people had been made; 
regulations for administering justice had been adopted; 
Christianity embraced; letters introduced; and the habits 
and manners of the savage are gradually giving place to the 
refinements of civilised life. 
Lord Byron, by the kindness and simplicity of his man¬ 
ners and deportment, had secured the personal affection of 
all the chiefs; and the service rendered by the surgeon to 
Karaimoku added, in no small degree, to the regard with 
which all classes were disposed to consider the English; so 
that, on the whole, nothing can be more gratifying to our 
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