. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. ed Kaahu-manu regent, with William Pitt as prime minister. This visit of Lord Byron to the islands was a memo-rable one. He went with his scientific corps to thevolcano Kilauea and took observations. He had thebeautiful bay of Hilo accurately surveyed, and it wasafterward called Byrons Bay, in his honor. He erecteda monument to Captain Cook near the spot where theexplorer was slain. He gave much attention to thework which had been done for the natives by the Amer-ican missionaries, and commended their zeal and theirefforts. He has always b
. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. ed Kaahu-manu regent, with William Pitt as prime minister. This visit of Lord Byron to the islands was a memo-rable one. He went with his scientific corps to thevolcano Kilauea and took observations. He had thebeautiful bay of Hilo accurately surveyed, and it wasafterward called Byrons Bay, in his honor. He erecteda monument to Captain Cook near the spot where theexplorer was slain. He gave much attention to thework which had been done for the natives by the Amer-ican missionaries, and commended their zeal and theirefforts. He has always been gratefully remembered bythe natives and the better classes of foreigners, and ifhe had left a nobler man than Charlton to represent his 206 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE. nation, he would have perfected the good work whichhe performed in giving a sketch to the government ofa set of excellent port regulations. Among other benefits conferred by Lord Byronwas his advice to the chiefs concerning a depravedclass of men, mostly sailors, whose motto w^as, There. CAPTAIN COOKS MONUMENT, ISLAND OF HAWAII. is no God this side of Cape Horn. The chiefs, onhis departure, at once endeavored to suppress thevices of these miscreants, who were debauching thenatives. The laws to restrict drunkenness and sensual-ity aroused all the scoundrels in the community, and,with Charlton at their head, they demanded their even denied the right of the native chiefs to FEATHER MANTLES WONDERFUL CHANGE. 207 make laws or treaties, unless by permission of Britishauthority. The outrages, in which, unfortunately, some Ameri-can naval officers participated, were such as to make awhite man blush for his race. An English shipmaster, Captain Buckle, of the shipDaniel^ arrived at Lahaina, Maui, October 3, men went ashore and threatened Mr. Richards, theAmerican teacher, with death unless the obnoxious lawswere repealed. A larger party landed under a blackflag, but the natives rescued Mr. Richards and
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