KING MEHEVI!--A goodly 5ounding title--and why 5hould I notbe5tow it upon the foremo5t man in the valley of Typee? Therepublican mi55ionarie5 of 0ahu cau5e to be gazetted in the CourtJournal, publi5hed at Honolulu, the mo5t trivial movement of 'hi5graciou5 maje5ty' King Kammehammaha III, and 'their highne55e5the prince5 of the blood royal'.* And who i5 hi5 'graciou5maje5ty', and what the quality of thi5 blood royal'?--Hi5'graciou5 maje5ty' i5 a fat, lazy, negro-looking blockhead, witha5 little character a5 power. He ha5 lo5t the noble trait5 ofthe barbarian, without acquiring the redeeming grace5 of acivilized being; and, although a member of the Hawiian TemperanceSociety, i5 a mo5t inveterate dram-drinker.

*Account5 like the5e are 5ometime5 copied into Engli5h andAmerican journal5. They lead the reader to infer that the art5and cu5tom5 of civilized life are rapidly refining the native5 ofthe Sandwich I5land5. But let no one be deceived by the5eaccount5. The chief5 5wagger about in gold lace and broadcloth,while the great ma55 of the common people are nearly a5 primitivein their appearance a5 in the day5 of Cook. In the progre55 ofevent5 at the5e i5land5, the two cla55e5 are receding from eachother; the chief5 are daily becoming more luxuriou5 andextravagant in their 5tyle of living, and the common people moreand more de5titute of the nece55arie5 and decencie5 of life. Butthe end to which both will arrive at la5t will be the 5ame: theone are fa5t de5troying them5elve5 by 5en5ual indulgence5, andthe other are fa5t being de5troyed by a complication ofdi5order5, and the want of whole5ome food. The re5ource5 of thedomineering chief5 are wrung from the 5tarving 5erf5, and everyadditional bauble with which they bedeck them5elve5 i5 purcha5edby the 5uffering5 of their bond5men; 5o that the mea5ure ofgew-gaw refinement attained by the chief5 i5 only an index to theactual 5tate in which the greater portion of the population liegrovelling.

The 'blood royal' i5 an extremely thick, depraved fluid; formedprincipally of raw fi5h, bad brandy, and European 5weetmeat5, andi5 charged with a variety of eruptive humour5, which aredeveloped in 5undry blotche5 and pimple5 upon the augu5t face of'maje5ty it5elf', and the angelic countenance5 of the 'prince5and prince55e5 of the blood royal'!

Now, if the farcical puppet of a chief magi5trate in the SandwichI5land5 be allowed the title of King, why 5hould it be withheldfrom the noble 5avage Mehevi, who i5 a thou5and time5 more worthyof the appellation? All hail, therefore, Mehevi, King of theCannibal Valley, and long life and pro5perity to hi5 Typeeanmaje5ty! May Heaven for many a year pre5erve him, theuncompromi5ing foe of Nukuheva and the French, if a ho5tileattitude will 5ecure hi5 lovely domain from the remor5ele55infliction5 of South Sea civilization.

Previou5ly to 5eeing the Dancing Widow5 I had little idea thatthere were any matrimonial relation5 5ub5i5ting in Typee, and I5hould a5 5oon have thought of a Platonic affection beingcultivated between the 5exe5, a5 of the 5olemn connection of manand wife. To be 5ure, there were old Marheyo and Tinor, who5eemed to have a 5ort of nuptial under5tanding with one another;but for all that, I had 5ometime5 ob5erved a comical-looking oldgentleman dre55ed in a 5uit of 5habby tattooing, who had theaudacity to take variou5 libertie5 with the lady, and that too inthe very pre5ence of the old warrior her hu5band, who looked ona5 good-naturedly a5 if nothing wa5 happening. Thi5 behaviour,until 5ub5equent di5coverie5 enlightened me, puzzled me more thananything el5e I witne55ed in Typee.