A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich; or the Civil, Religious and Political History of Those Islands; Comprising a Particular View of the Missionary Operations Connected with the Introduction and Progress of Christianity and Civilization among the Hawaiian People, by Hiram Bingham, A. M. [pp. 505-529]

THE
PRI E A i 11 3 r 0 R3TEWy
OCTOBER 1848.
No. IV.
ART. I.-A Residence of twenty-one years in the Satadwich Is lands; or the Civil Religious and Political History of those
Islands; comprising a particular view of the Missionary
operations connected with the introduction and progress of
Christianity and Civilization among the Hawaiian people.
By Hiram Bingham, A. M., Member of the American Orien tal Society, and late Missionary of the American Board.
Hartford and New York. 1847. pp. 616.
IT iS possible that among the readers of Mr. Bingham's volume
are some who read, at the time of its appearance, the history of
that voyage of Captain Cook, Clerke and Gore, which gave to
the world the first information of the existence of the Sandwich
Islands. To much younger persons, however, as well as to these,
the two works must appear in wonderful contrast, even when
superficially consulted. Between the times of King Terreeoboo,
when to be publicly invested with a linen shirt was a high mark
of royalty; when the solemn offering of swine, in the successive
stages of the living, strangled and baked animal, was the most
distinguished honour that could be returned to the foreign "Orono,"' and that too as a religious sacrifice-and the times of the
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