'Damien is dead and already somewhat ungratefully remembered in the field of his labours and sufferings.

"He was a good man, but very officious," says one.

Another tells me he had fallen (as other priests so easily do) into something of the ways and habits of thought of a Kanaka; but he had the wit to recognise the fact, and the good sense to laugh at' [over] 'it.

A plain man it seems he was; I cannot find he was a popular.' _B_.

'After Ragsdale's death' [Ragsdale was a famous Luna, or overseer, of the unruly settlement] 'there followed a brief term of office by Father Damien which served only to publish the weakness of that noble man.