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July 07, 2008 | While we've talked about missionaries and whalers in the past, we've yet to touch on the many conflicts between the two groups . . . Both groups arrived in Hawaii at roughly the same time but lived vastly different lives.
Since the whalers were men stuck on a ship for months at a time, upon landing all they wanted to do was play in paradise with the beautiful island women. The missionaries on the other hand, came simply to spread Christianity. As the whalers were out all night partying at raucous and lewd saloons, the missionaries felt it was their duty to help protect the native women from the rowdy sailors. So Willliam Richards, Lahaina's first protestant missionary, convinced Maui's governor Hoapili (husband of Keopuolani after Kamehameha I death) to enact laws imposing a curfew on the whalers visit to the saloons, ordinances for drunkenness, adultery, and placement of a kapu (ban) on native women swimming out to the whalers ship to greet them....
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