JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, DURING THE YEARS 1823, 1824, AND 1825: INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NATURAL SCENERY, AND REMARKS IN THE BRITISH FRIGATE BLONDE, AND OF AN EXCURSION TO THE GREAT VOL- CANO OF KIRAUEA IN HAWAII. Charl Jomun BY C. S. STEWART, LATE MISSIONARY AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED; WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, BY REV. WILLIAM ELLIS, FROM THE FIRST LONDON EDITION. NEW YORK: JOHN P. HAVEN, 142 NASSAU STREET, AND, G. AND C. CARVILL: PHILADELPHIA-TOWER AND HOGAN ; 1828. То THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL LEWIS SOUTHARD, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. DEAR SIR,—The Journal, now committed to the press, was originally written, for the perusal of yourself and a few other intimate friends. I avail myself, with great pleasure, of the opportunity afforded by its publication, to acknowledge my gratitude for your friendship, at a period of life, when the guardianship of the wise is most essential. To the confidence and affectionate counsels received from you, in my early youth, I attribute benefits to myself of the highest value-benefits, which must ever make your name and character, dear to the best feelings of, Your sincere Friend, CHARLES SAMUEL STEWART. |