Had he given it three years, and gone more gently, I believe it might have been accomplished.

To make it the more possible, he sought to interdict the natives from buying cotton stuffs and to oblige them to dress (at least for the time) in their own tapa.

He laid the beginnings of a royal territorial army.

The first draft was in his hands drilling.
But it was not so much on drill that he depended; it was his hope to kindle in these men an _esprit de corps_, which should weaken the old local jealousies and bonds, and found a central or national party in the islands.

Looking far before, and with a wisdom beyond that of many merchants, he had condemned the single dependence placed on copra for the national livelihood.