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Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen. By Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, 1838-1917. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1898. I WAS a studious girl; and the acquisition of knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost it charm to the present day. In this respect I was quite different from……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   ALEXANDER LIHOLIHO, known to history as Kamehameha IV., had all the characteristics of his race; and the strong, passionate nature of the Kamehamehas is shown in his benevolent as in his less commendable acts. To him was due the introduction of……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 I WAS engaged to Mr. Dominis for about two years; and it was our intention to be married on the second day of September, 1862. But by reason of the fact that the court was in affliction and mourning, our wedding was……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   From this moment dates my official title of Liliuokalani, that being the name under which I was formally proclaimed princess and heir apparent to the throne of my ancestors. Now that this important matter had been decided by those whom the……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   THE Hawaiian people have been from time immemorial lovers of poetry and music, and have been apt in improvising historic poems, songs of love, and chants of worship, so that praises of the living or wails over the dead were with……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   EARLY in December, 1872, occurred the death of Prince Lot, as he was often called, even after his accession to the throne under the title of Kamehameha V. On the 10th of that month my husband and I were summoned to……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 THE contest for the succession which resulted in the elevation of my family – the Keaweaheulu line – to royal honors is of course a matter of history. Since the king had refused to nominate his successor, the election was with the……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   MY brother’s reign began on Feb. 12, 1874; and on the fourteenth of the same month he appointed, by the consent of the nobles under the twenty-second article of the constitution of 1864, our younger brother, William Pitt Leleiokoku, his successor……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   In the early part of the year 1878, I was not in the enjoyment of my usual good health; and my physician, Dr. Tisdale of Oakland, Cal., advised a trip to that coast, trusting that the change might be of benefit……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 IN the year 1880 Miss Helen Aldrich of Berkeley, Cal., made me a visit. She was the daughter of Mr. W. A. Aldrich, a banker, who had married a first cousin of my husband, Elizabeth, the child of Mr. R. W. Holt.……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 IN the early part of the month of January, 1881, a message through the telephone reached me at my private residence at Washington Place, that my presence was required immediately at Iolani Palace. I answered the summons at once; but on my……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   BUT there are a few matters of interest during this time of which I must now speak. King Kalakaua had been gone but a few weeks when the startling news was in circulation that the small-pox had broken out in the……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   THEN leaving Honolulu attended by some few of my retainers, I went first to the residence of Mr. J. A. Cummins, a gentleman who subsequently undertook a diplomatic errand for me to the city of Washington, and who in 1895 was……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   ON the second day of February, 1887, died the Princess Miriam Likelike, wife of Hon. A. S. Cleghorn, leaving one child, an interesting little girl of eleven years of age, to begin the serious business of life without a mother. She……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   IT was during this period of convalescence that my regency was brought to a close. With that enthusiasm always shown by the Hawaiian people in doing honor to their sovereigns, the grandest preparations were made throughout the islands to welcome the……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   IN the early part of the year 1883, preparations were made to formally ratify the accession of the new dynasty to the Hawaiian throne by investing both His Majesty Kalakaua, and his queen, Kapiolani, with the crown and other insignia of……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   IN the Spring of 1884 the Princess Ruth completed a handsome residence on Emma Street, and gave a grand luau to celebrate the event. This was followed by a splendid ball in the evening, which was attended by all the best……

HAWAII’S STORY   BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   ANOTHER provision of the will of Mrs. Bishop may be noticed here. It was found that she had made ample provision for the education of the people of her race; and an educational and industrial institute was to be erected,……

HAWAII’S STORY BYHAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTONLEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS1898 A FEW days after our arrival the Queen signified her wish to call on the President, so we all attended Her Majesty to the White House. President Cleveland and his beautiful young bride most cordially received and hospitably entertained us; and a more recent experience……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 LEAVING Washington, we next visited the city of Boston, where on arrival we found that apartments had been engaged for us at the Parker House. We considered these the pleasantest rooms we had seen, and enjoyed excessively the liberality and good taste……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   OUR earliest greeting came from Col. George W. Macfarlane, who sent off two magnificent bouquets, one for Queen Kapiolani and one for myself. There were received in the stream, because our steamer was of such immense size that she did not……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   IMMEDIATELY after our arrival Queen Kapiolani sent messages of congratulations to Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India; and arrangements were made for us to present our felicitations in person at Buckingham Palace on Monday at one……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   THAT evening an entertainment was given at the Foreign Office at which we were expected to be present. I expressed a wish on leaving the hotel to go in a carriage with my husband, which naturally placed the duty of escort……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   T is necessary now to briefly review the events which had taken place in our absence of about three months abroad. We arrived in Honolulu on the twenty-sixth day of July, 1887. A conspiracy against the peace of the Hawaiian Kingdom……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   ON the following, or great day of the Jubilee, we were to be present in the morning at the historic church of Westminster Abbey; and the hour of half-past ten had been appointed for General Dominis and Colonel Boyd to take……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   WE were all too much fatigued to think of going out again that evening. Entertainment after entertainment followed in an endless variety, and on too grand a scale to think of enumerating them all, or even of mentioning the many ways……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   ON one of the days when we were free of other engagements, the party of Queen Kapiolani took carriages, and drove out to the residence of Lady Aberdeen, where Mr. Gladstone was staying for a few days. We were received most……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898 THE final entertainment, given to the party of royal visitors from all quarters of the globe, was a garden party, tendered by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, at which she herself and all her good and beautiful children were present. Punctually at the……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   TURNING from this narration of the events which had transpired before the return of the queen’s party from abroad, I will resume the thread of my personal narrative from the moment of meeting with my brother. After exchanging a few words……

HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN LILIUOKALANI ILLUSTRATED BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 1898   AFTER all, the anticipated trip was never taken. I am at a loss to explain the causes of its failure, but I understood that there was some friction in the cabinet. That body was now the absolute monarch of the kingdom……