Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

FIRST MISSI()NARY CRUSADERS

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sailed to Hawaii to instruct tlhe natives il civilized methods of
agriculture.
However, the Hfawaiians lhad already learned mluch of these
modern ways, for Don Francisco de I'aula y Marin, the Spaniard,
ha(l lived in the Islands alout a quarter of a century and had
introduced many varieties of foreign plants, vegetables and trees.
The Hawaiians looked upon the fair, white children with deep
interest. They were the first white children they had ever seen.
lWhen the chief Ialanimoku went aboard the brig to sail from
Kawailhae to Kailua, the clief's wife and two of the widowed
queens of Kamehamehla I were even mnore interested in the Chamberlain children, and particularly Nancy, a tiny tot, than in the
new patclwork which Mrs. Thurston and Mrs. Binghaml prepared for the Hawaiian women to sew, their first handiwork
with needle andl thread.
UIpon the deck of the 7'haddclis where stood Kalanimoku,
dressed, as Daniel Chalmberlail records, as a gentleman in the
American fashion, and bearing himself majestically and graciously, and also the queens and womelln of high rank of Hawaii, there
prolalbly entered the tholughts which later had weight with tle
king in his decision to permit the missionaries to land.
There was l)robablly a stiggestion to the king from some of
Ilis own people, or possibly fromn somle of the white mlen already
living on the Islands and oIp)posed to the missionaries coming
among them, that the missionaries intendled robblling them of their
lanlls.
"If the strangers are come to rob us, why did they bring their
womenl and children?" queriedl one hi.gh chief. "To rob would
mean they mllight be killed. They would not, then, have brought
their -wolllen andl children."
The suggestion was a powerful factor in the decision which
followed, and was probably due to the straiige liking which the
kilng queens and chiefs manifested for Nancy, the two-year-old
child of the Clhamberlains. Thev fondled it, when they were
pIermitted ashore, and a queen asked Mrs. Clhamberlain to give
lier the child.