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Hawaiian Spectator, 1839, (Honolulu) a valuable article by a Hawaiian, David Malo; one of the Rev. A Bishop, stating that there the majority of children born in the Is. Died before they were 2 years old. 

Sandwich Island notes by a Häolé, G.W. Bates) N.Y. 1854, has an intelligent estimate of past & present causes of depopulation, pp. 341-351.

Paradise in the Pacific, N.Y. 1873, Wm. R. Bliss, (an intelligent person) p. 57: "marriages between the natives are not prolific, even when the married are in comfortable circumstances & of industrious habits, offspring are regarded as a calamity."

B Marten

See also Answers to Questions by R.C. Wyllie, Ministry for Relations, advanced to all the Haw. Missionaries: Honolulu, 1848, 8vo, an important work: I cannot get at it here; it may be in the Brit. Museum; As. Dibble's Hist., p. 128, "[illeg] on infanticide. Ans. To Questions, p. 47, says: "Habits (of

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illicit intercourse) were often commenced at the age of 2 or 3 years, & continued in such a manner as to induce genital impotence." "These habits were deemed necessary to the preservation of friendship & good feeling toward one another," Today G.W. Bates, the "Maoli", from above the above quotation from "Questions" is taken p. 344.

[Bates, George Washington.] 1854. Sandwich Island notes. By a Häolé. New York: Harper & Brothers.

Malo, David. 1839. On the decrease of population on the Hawaiian Islands. Translated by L. Andrews. Hawaiian Spectator 2: 121-130.