The American Mission in the Sandwich Islands

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Excerpt from The American Mission in the Sandwich Islands: A Vindication and an Appeal in Relation A few days after my return from Madagascar, I had the honor of meeting, at a banquet at the Mansion House, Emma, Queen Dowager of the Sandwich Islands, and of conversing with her Majesty and suite respecting friends whom I had known in her native land, and I have regretted that our ungenial climate obliged her Majesty to leave for a season, before I had any other opportunity of expressing the great pleasure which the occasion afforded me, not only on account of the high and just estimation in which her Majesty is held, but also on account of the hospitality and attention which I had received in Hawaii from my countryman, her honored ancestor, Mr. John Young. During the short time that Queen Emma remained in England, meetings, at which her Majesty was present, were held in several pans of the country in favor of the Episcopate and English Mission recently sent out to Honolulu. It is well that her Majesty and suite were able to attend these meetings. They have afforded to all who have thus shared the privilege of personal intercourse with the illustrious visitor to our country the most satisfactory evidence that could be desired of the influence under which her character has been formed, and the judgment and intelligence with which her education has been directed. That a young intelligent, and well-educated lady of highest rank in a remote and comparatively unfrequented country, should desire to visit a land of which report had, perhaps, often filled her youthful and wondering mind with visions of greatness and happiness, especially if to that land she could in part trace her own descent, is very natural, and would of itself ensure a most cordial welcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.