I can not say whether our presence influenced the decision, or whether, under other circumstances, the Portuguese would have been less favorably treated.

We were given to understand that Tamehameha was pleased to see whites establish themselves in his dominions, but that he esteemed only people with some useful trade, and despised idlers, and especially drunkards.

We saw at Wahoo about thirty of these white inhabitants, for the most part, people of no character, and who had remained on the islands either from indolence, or from drunkenness and licentiousness.

Some had taken wives in the country, in which case the king gave them a portion of land to cultivate for themselves.

But two of the worst sort had found means to procure a small still, wherewith they manufactured rum and supplied it to the natives.
The first navigators found only four sorts of quadrupeds on the Sandwich islands:--dogs, swine, lizards, and rats.