Economic Impacts On Hawaiian Life

I will be very sorry if I don’t get back to you to see you when your first born, but I’m stuck on the Sandwich Islands to refit the ships for our next whaling adventure. It’s been taking longer than normal and missionaries have started coming here. All of the islands are very peaceful and they have many different customs than us. Some of our crew has started staying here getting jobs and building homes. There have been a lot more people coming here and we have been complaining a lot of the Hawaiians customs. There have been some weird stuff going on right now so I guess summarize my experience to you. A political impact that happened was the government had to enforce some laws because of the bad things some of the crew has been doing. One of them was punishing the people that knew they were spreading diseases. The government had to make this a law because the pure Hawaiians were dying rapidly from the disease. They were punished with pain and went to jail instead of just going straight to jail. I wonder why the Hawaiians are so easily affected by the diseases, but it was almost like the diseases we had at home were never here before. …show more content…
Its an economic impact because now the islands have different agriculture in the islands. For example salt and cattle are two things we brought. It helped the ranchers because when Vancouver brought the cattle they multiplied into large herds in the mountains and the plains. They also got their salt from small tide pools, but later the salt was dug in the salt lake. Since there were so many cattle John Parker made a cattle ranch center and sold the meat and salted it. We bought shooting cattle from the chiefs. I don’t understand why we needed to buy shooting cattle, but I guess it's