A

RESIDENCE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS

IN THE

USANDWICH ISLANDS;

OR THE

CIVIL, RELIGIOUS, AND POLITICAL HISTORY

OF THOSE ISLANDS:

COMPRISING

A PARTICULAR VIEW OF THE MISSIONARY OPERATIONS CONNECTED
WITH THE INTRODUCTION AND PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY AND
CIVILIZATION AMONG THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE.

BY HIRAM BINGHAM, A.M.,

MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, AND

LATE MISSIONARY OF THE AMERICAN BOARD.

THIRD EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED A TABLE OF MISSIONARIES OF THE AMERICAN BOARD TO THE SANDWICH

ISLANDS.

HARTFORD:

HEZEKIAH HUNTINGTON.

1849.

in the year 1847, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

DEDICATION.

TO THE HONORABLE

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,

ITS OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, CORPORATE AND HONORARY,

AND ITS NUMEROUS AND GENEROUS SUPPORTERS,

THIS RECORD

OF ONE OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS IN RESCUING HEATHEN

NATIONS, PREPARED BY ONE, WHO, FOR A QUARTER OF

A CENTURY, HAS HAD THE HAPPINESS ΤΟ BE

EMPLOYED IN THEIR SERVICE, IS GRATEFULLY

AND RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY THE AUTHOR.