Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society And Sandwich Islands 4
Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society And Sandwich Islands 4
William Ellis
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I have sat beside him ai his desk some- times from nine or ten o'clock in the molding till nearly sunset, dtirinja: which period his pen or his book has not been out of his h^nd piore than three-quarters oY an hour, while he was at dinner. • We do not know that Christianity exerted any de- cisive influence oi> his heart* H-e was willing to rec.eive the missionaries on their first arr«ival-*-ravailed himself of their knowledge, to increase his own— aiHi, during k. , CHARACTER OF lUHORraO. 325 th...e latter years of his life^ was decidedly favourable to their object; declared his convictioQ of the truth of Christianity ; attended pub4ic ilOrship himself on the Sabbath, and recommended the same to hi^ people. His moral^character was not marked by thiit cruelty, rapacity; and insensibility to the suftt^rui^s of the people/ which frequently distinguish thcabitrnry cbiefa of un- civilized nations. He appears in jg;«ij«rdl u> have been kind ; and, in several pla^ on our tour, the mothers showed us their children, and told ui^ that when HUio- liho' passed that way, he had kisaed ihem^a conde* scension they s&emed to think much o{^ and wiiich they will probably remember to the end of lluir days.
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