. The literary digest. ionaries, would have cost youyour life. What are they? asked the astonished agnostic. First, you walked into my presence, instead of crawling onyour hands and knees. You crossed my shadow, and you satdown in my presence, either of which offenses would once havebeen punished with death. The agnostic was silenced. Missionaries not only broughtsalvation and eternal happiness to the Hawaiian, but peace, lib-erty, love of wife and children, happiness, thrift, and who believe that absolute monarchy and tyranny, the sac-rifice of human life to a cruel superstitio
. The literary digest. ionaries, would have cost youyour life. What are they? asked the astonished agnostic. First, you walked into my presence, instead of crawling onyour hands and knees. You crossed my shadow, and you satdown in my presence, either of which offenses would once havebeen punished with death. The agnostic was silenced. Missionaries not only broughtsalvation and eternal happiness to the Hawaiian, but peace, lib-erty, love of wife and children, happiness, thrift, and who believe that absolute monarchy and tyranny, the sac-rifice of human life to a cruel superstition, grass huts, nakedness,and utter disregard of the family tie are better than the state ofsociety the natives now enjoy, may conclude that the missionarywork is a failure; but it is a badly depraved taste and diseasedmind that draws such conclusions. Of the native population of Hawaii the author says: The Kanaka, as the aborigine of the Hawaiian Islands iscalled, is the most interesting person in Hawaii. Chinese, Jap-. TYHICAL AiiClENT HAWAIIN. anese, Portuguese, Siamese, South Sea Islanders, and almostevery other odd and eccentric nationality may be found any-where, but the Hawaiian can not. In this land he holds a uniqueposition. No enterprise seems to get along without him, and heis met at every turn. His face lighted up with kindness, hos-pitality, and childlike simplicity wins one with a smile. Thenative is wholly different from the North American Indian. Helacks the sullen disposition of the latter, never harbors malice, isunrevengeful, kind, forgiving, and free from treachery. Thefriendship of the Kanaka may be implicitly relied upon. His 176 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [Feb. 5, 1898 benignant approachableness puts him in touch with the strangerat first sight. Tho the Hawaiian is a failure at the head of busi-ness, lacking the power to direct and control, he makes a trustyand faithful clerk. There are few occupations in which the Ha-waiians are not found. They are painters, ca
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