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Mehevi!–A goodly sounding title!—and why should I not bestow it upon the foremost man in the valley of Typee? The republican missionaries of Oahu cause to be gazetted in the Court Journal, published at Honolula, the most trivial movements of "his gracious majesty" King Kamme-hammaha III., and “their highnesses the princes of the blood royal." —And who is his "gracious majesty," and what the quality of this "blood royal?"—His "gracious majesty" is a fat, lazy, negro-looking blockhead, with as little character as power. He has lost the noble traits of the barbarian, without acquiring the redeeming graces of a civilized being; and, al-