eceive the root of all that is good and true, which is _love_.

"1. Love to Jehovah.

"2. Love to self.

"3. Love to our neighbour.

"If a man have a sufficiency of these three, he is good and holy, like
his God, Jehovah, in His triune character (Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost), one-three, three-one. If he have two and wants one, it is not
well; and if he have one and wants two, this, indeed, is not well; but
if he cherishes all three, then is he holy, indeed, after the manner
of the Bible.

"This is a great thing for your great nation to boast of before all
the nations of the earth. From your great land a most precious seed
was brought to the land of darkness. It was planted here, not by means
of guns and men-of-war and threatenings. It was planted by means of
the ignorant, the neglected, the despised. Such was the introduction
of the word of the Almighty God into this group of Nuuhiwa. Great is
my debt to Americans, who have taught me all things pertaining to this
life and to that which is to come.

"How shall I repay your great kindness to me? Thus David asked of
Jehovah, and thus I ask of you, the President of the United States.
This is my only payment--that which I have received of the Lord,
love--(aloha)."

FOOTNOTE:

[3] The reference is to Maka, the Hawaiian missionary, at Butaritari,
in the Gilberts.

CHAPTER XI

LONG-PIG--A CANNIBAL HIGH PLACE

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so
surely unmortars a society; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so
harden and degrade the minds of those that practise it. And yet we
ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and
the vegetarian. We consume the carcases of creatures of like appetites,
passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our
own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and
fear. We distinguish, indeed; but the unwillingness of many nations to
eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy,
shows how precariously the distinction is grounded. The pig is the main
element of animal food among the islands; and I had many occasions, my
mind being quickened by my cannibal surroundings, to observe his
character and the manner of his death. Many islanders live with their
pigs as we do with our dogs; both crowd around the hearth with equal
freedom; and the island pig is a f