The spring of 1823 would bring a new wave of missionaries to include, William Richards, his wife, and Charles Stewart, with his wife Harriet, and their African companion Betsey Stockton from the Second Company in Boston. These missionaries, along with many westerners, were weary of the Native Hawaiians as viewed in the journal of Betsey Stockton. An excerpt from the first interaction with the natives on April 24, 1823, defined the Hawaiian men who greeted the ship as “half man and half beast-naked-except a narrow strip of tapa round their loins.” “The ladies” she continues “retired to the cabin, and burst into tears; some of the gentlemen turned pale: my own soul sickened with me and every nerve trembled.” She continues her passage by reminder herself “they are men and have souls.”…