MARK TWAIN

the acceptance of terms of so degrading a nature that in
the hearts of the spirited people the memory of them
would rankle till the end of time. K. V has been caressed
and flattered by British men-of-warsmen and so he has
forgiven that deadly insult and fawns upon the nation
that gave it.

So also with his dear friends the French, who treated
his ancestor K. Ill like a dog—who, through their ad-
miral, marched gallantly upon his thoroughly harmless
and entirely ornamental fort, and, unrcsisted, demolished
it and spiked its guns—and then made the poor King
sign an agreement the nature of which may best be
expressed by saying that through it, metaphorically,
the French nation spit in the face of Hawaii. But
dusky Queen Emma had been flattered and feted at
the French court and lo, K. V is mollified and the atro-
cious acts of the admiral are forgotten. This is Hawaiian
royalty.

Missionaries have made honest men out of the nation
of thieves; instituted marriage; created homes; lifted
woman to same rights and privileges enjoyed elsewhere;
abolished infanticide; abolished intemperance; diminished
licentiousness; given equal laws, whereby chiefs power
of life and death over his subjects is taken away; in a
great measure abolished idolatry; have well educated the
people.

Capt. says sailors (of the Hornet) like great stupid
children hadn't been an hour ashore till they were
growling about the grub and smuggling great slabs of
pork through natives to add to their rations of tea and
biscuit. One man nearly killed himself first day, eating
fruit—came near dying that night. Cox sat beside Capt.
on shore and was eating a cocoanut—Capt. confiscated
it and threw it away—Cox thought it hard treatment of
a poor devil who had been starving 43 days.

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