matter with the dog? Have you had to tie him up?" Wing smiled pensively, and replied with significant terseness, "He go for milkman!"

The following night we were treated to one more of the many studies in ethnology which we had already enjoyed. The band was giving a concert in honour of the departure of the Mariposa in the pavilion on the hotel lawn. In the midst of the "Miserere" the sound of a drum was heard in the distance, and there was an evident commotion down the street!

"Another crisis!" was the unanimous exclamation. But the crowd advanced without any hostile demonstration, sweeping up the drive, passed the verandah, out again into the street. The band ceased playing, then recovered itself, and as they departed with commendable delicacy and feeling struck up a Hawaiian march. It was a company of Samoan dancers en route to the World's Fair. They carried the paddles with which they navigate their canoes, and were clad in tapa robes, their heads covered with white cloths, in lieu of the application of lime, which is the Samoan method of hair-dressing for State occasions. They were to give a national dance at the Opera House, and public entertainments were so rare that there was a general stampede of guests to the place of amusement, the ladies not taking time even to put on their hats. A bonâ-fide theatrical company at that time was very rarely seen

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in Honolulu, although a number of companies have since stopped and given performances on their way to and from Australia. At the time mentioned, however, the advent of any sort of show was an event. A negro minstrel troupe had arrived a short time before in a ship en route to Sydney from San Francisco, and remained in harbour for one day. In the afternoon they gave a performance, and there was a general suspension of business. The shops were closed, and everybody went to the show, except of course the ultra-religious missionary element.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE PRINCESS KAIULANI.

HILE all this had occurred the Princess Kaiu

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lani had not been a disinterested looker-on. The ex-Queen had never been well-disposed towards the young girl whom she had been forced to name as her successor.

Kaiulani had lived for some time in England in the family of Mr. Theophilus Davies, an English merchant who owned large estates and warehouses in Honolulu, where he resided only a part of the time. The young Princess had received the education of an English gentlewoman; young, graceful, refined and attractive, during the monarchy her rank was properly recognised by Queen Victoria recognition, however, which of necessity ceased with the possibility of her succession to the Hawaiian throne.

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Parliament almost at once announced its intention not to interfere in Hawaiian affairs, considering the interests of British subjects in the Islands quite safe under the protection of the Provisional Government and the United States. This, no doubt, was a blow

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to the English guardian of the Princess, and, finding it useless to expect support at home, he proceeded to Washington with his Hawaiian ward, ostensibly to appeal to Congress and the President.

It was in reality an opportunity for an effective theatrical pose which would catch the fickle sympathy of the ignorant, and furnish some sort of an excuse to the Administration for the discreditable course it had elected to pursue.

Personally, the young Princess was a charming and interesting character; she gave a certain picturesqueness to the little drama, appearing upon the scene just at the proper moment, as the conventional heroine should, gently appealing to the American people for redress and protection in the maintenance of her rights.

The American, it is well known, is easily moved by any appeal from womanhood wronged or distressed. That the presence of the young Hawaiian girl in Washington made no impression on the public mind was proof that the people were not disposed to take seriously her demand that the monarchy be restored, and that she should be placed upon the throne as the successor of the ex-Queen Liliuokalani. In the first place, whatever the views of the President might have been, it was believed that a government pledged to the maintenance of democracy could not consistently lend its aid to the building up of a fallen monarchy; and, in the second place, however

pure and disinterested her motives might have been, no human power could have prevented the Princess. Kaiulani from being a helpless tool in the hands of men who had controlled King Kalakaua and abetted the ex-Queen in her conspiracies against the Government. Men like President Dole, like the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. Smith, born and reared in the Islands, who had strenuously advocated their autonomy as long as there was any hope, saw no advantage to be gained in the proclamation of the Princess as Queen, nor any immunity in such succession from the inherent evils of a thoroughly corrupt system. A Regency with Mr. Dole at its head had been proposed for the three years that must elapse before Kaiulani attained her majority.

She left Liverpool with Mr. Davies, February 22nd, and arrived in New York a week later, where she at once published in the daily newspapers an appeal to the American people. It was known that, with many graces and accomplishments, the young Princess had not the pen of a ready writer. The composition of the address, as sentimental as a school-girl's essay or an elegant extract from an old-fashioned three-volume novel, was therefore supposed to be the work of her guardian. At any rate, it was couched in the following remarkable language:

"TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, Unbidden I stand upon your shores to-day, where I thought so soon to receive a