- "New Zealand Kanaka eat white man;-
Sandwich Island Kanaka,- no. Sandwich Island Kanaka ua like pu na
haole- all 'e same a' you!"
Mr. Bingham was a sort of patriarch among them, and was always
treated with great respect, though he had not the education and energy
which gave Mr. Mannini his power over them. I have spent hours in
talking with this old fellow about Kamehameha, the Charlemagne of
the Sandwich Islands; his son and successor Riho Riho, who died in
England, and was brought to Oahu in the frigate Blonde, Captain Lord
Byron, and whose funeral he remembered perfectly; and also about the
customs of his country in his boyhood, and the changes which had
been made by the missionaries. He never would allow that human
beings had been eaten there; and, indeed, it always seemed like an
insult to tell so affectionate, intelligent, and civilized a class
of men, that such barbarities had been practised in their own
country within the recollection of many of them. Certainly, the
history of no people on the globe can show anything like so rapid an
advance. I would have trusted my life and my fortune in the hands of
any one of these people; and certainly had I wished for a favor or act
of sacrifice, I would have gone to them all, in turn, before I
should have applied to one of my own countrymen on the coast, and
should have expected to have seen it done, before my own countrymen
had got half through counting the cost.
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