Note 1 — Chapter X
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An exception in one instance to this fact, so creditable to the Hawaiians, is said to have occurred to one of the American missionary ladies, to whom a native behaved with so much rudeness that the king, Liholiho, only spared his life at the intercession of her husband. The contemplated punishment for a breach of their national hospitality, shows in what abhorrence they regarded a wanton insult to a white woman!