“It has been said, that the greatest curse to each of the South Sea Islands, was the first man that discovered it; and everyone who knows anything of the history of our commerce in these parts, knows how much truth there is in this; and that the white men, with their vices, have brought in diseases before unknown to islanders, which are now sweeping off the native population of the Sandwich Islands, at the rate of one fortieth of the entire population annually. They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a people calling themselves Christian, seems to follow them everywhere.; and even here, in this obscure place, lay two young islanders whom I had left as active young men, in the vigour of health, wasting away under a disease, which they would have never known but for their intercourse with Christianized Mexico and people from Christian America.”
“Two Year’s Before the Mast” R.H. Dana Jr, 1840
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