Abstract
AbstractThe natives of the (Hawaiian) islands number only about 50,000 and the whites about 3,000, chiefly Americans. According to Captain Cook, the natives numbered 400,000 less than a hundred years ago. But the traders brought labor and fancy diseases—in other words, long deliberate, infallible destruction; and the missionaries brought the means of grace and got them ready. So the two forces are working along harmoniously and anybody who knows anything about figures can tell you exactly when the last Kanaka will be in Abrahams’s bosom and his islands in the hands of the whites. It is the same as calculating an eclipse …
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