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KING MEHEVI -- ALLUSION TO HIS HAWAIIAN MAJESTY -- CONDUCT OF MARHEYO AND MEHEVI IN CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS -- PECULIAR SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE -- NUMBER OF POPULATION -- UNIFORMITY -- EMBALMING -- PLACES OF SEPULTURE -- FUNERAL OBSEQUIES AT NUKUHEVA-NUMBER OF INHABITANTS IN TYPEE -- LOCATION OF THE DWELLINGS -- HAPPINESS ENJOYED IN THE VALLEY -- A WARNING -- SOME IDEAS WITH REGARD TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE HAWAIIANS -- STORY OF A MISSIONARY'S WIFE -- FASHIONABLE EQUIPAGES AT OAHU -- REFLECTIONS
King Mehevi! -- A goodly sounding title -- and why should I not bestow it upon the foremost man in the valley of Typee? The republican missionaries of Oahu cause to be gazetted in the Court Journal, published at Honolulu, the most trivial movement of ‘his gracious majesty' King Kammehammaha III, and ‘their highnesses the princes of the blood royal'.* And who is his ‘gracious majesty', and what the quality of this blood royal'? -- His ‘gracious majesty' is a fat, lazy, negro-looking blockhead, with as little character as power. He has lost the noble traits of the barbarian, without acquiring the redeeming graces of a civilized being; and, although a member of the Hawiian Temperance Society, is a most inveterate dram-drinker.