THE PATENT OF TRUE NOBILITY.

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Open opposition and fault-finding he can openly meet; secret defamation and undermining he can live down or counter-work; and, in the end, his real character comes out untarnished like a mirror, though it may be momentarily blackened by the smoke of slander or covered with the dust thrown by envious jealousy.

HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF, TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENSE TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD MEN. There is a noble sonnet by Professor Upham, on those words of Paul, with which I can not deny myself the pleasure of closing this chapter, having in eye a friend and missionary brother whom I greatly admire and love:

What constitutes the true nobility?

Not wealth, nor name, nor outward pomp, nor power.
Fools have them all; and vicious men may be

The idols and the pageants of an hour.
But 'tis to have a good and honest heart,
Above all meanness, and above all crime;
To act the right and honorable part

In every circumstance of place and time.
HE WHO IS THUS, FROM GOD HIS PATENT TAKES,
HIS MAKER FORMED HIM THE TRUE NOBLEMAN;
WHATE'ER IS LOW AND VICIOUS HE FORSAKES,
AND ACTS ON RECTITUDE'S UNCHANGING PLAN.

THINGS CHANGE AROUND HIM; CHANGES TOUCH NOT HIM;

THE STAR THAT GUIDES HIS PATH FAILS NOT, NOR WAXES DIM.

With this adopted sonnet the author takes his leave of Hilo and of the friends that may have traveled with him thus far, he hopes not without profit, through THE ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC. He promises to resume his travels through other parts of the Island-kingdom of Hawaii, should Providence allow and the reception of the present volume warrant it.

Meantime, he commends his readers to the careful perusal of the statistics and facts collected in the following pages, as containing the reliable data from which to forecast the horoscope of the future destinies of the Sandwich Islands.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE RESOURCES, TRADE, COMMERCE, POP. ULATION, PIETY, POSITION, AND PROSPECTS OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

MOTHER of Wealth, and Enterprise, and Arts,

Her golden empire marries distant parts;

She knits the league; she sheathes the blade of war,

Of Earth, and Sea, and Man the conqueror:

Dread agent, or for boundless good or ill,

God speaks the word, and COMMERCE works his will.

Anon.

WE throw into the form of an appendix, for ease of reference and for the use of commercial readers and travelers, the following condensed statements and tables of statistics, gathered mainly from latest documents in the Government Journal published at Honolulu, and carefully compared and corrected for this work.

In the chain of events which have served to attract attention to this portion of the globe, the first was the seizure of these Islands by Lord George Paulet, and the subsequent restoration by Admiral Thomas. Up to that time, 1843, the trade of the Islands was limited to one or two ships which sailed from Boston, and the trade with the whaling fleet. The imports in 1843 amounted to $223,385 38, upon which a revenue of $8,468 38 was collected. So rapidly did the trade increase, that in 1847 the imports amounted to $710,133 52, and the revenue to $48,801 25, while for the current year the amount of both imports and revenue therefrom will doubtless far exceed that amount. But it should be borne in mind that this great increase of importation is not the consequence of increased consumption, for many of the goods which have been imported and paid duties here, eventually found their way out of the country.

The second event which occurred to draw public attention to the Pacific was the establishment of the French Protectorate at Tahiti. Although this event has not directly exerted any great influence upon commerce, it has, in a political sense, attracted public attention to the Pacific, and will in the end, if the right measures be pursued by the