its tainted breath and marred and hideous form is there-yes, God help and stay it! for I tell you it is there. Vice is there, with as dreadful complexion and conditions as can be found in London or New York. You can find it-it all depends upon your own strength of vision, and the seeking. Indolence is there, colossal in size the natives' true heritage, fostered by the sun, and coaxed and flattered by the very air, by the blue, rippling waves, by the glistening white sands of the beach, by Mother Nature in her every mood, to stay and scorn departure! Enfin, the ills, and evils, and enemies of life-a pack of wolves-are all there; and if the fuel, the fagots be scanty, the fire is not strong enough to make them retreat. All there in this wondrous Land of the Seathey are all there! It is not, however, for my pen to paint the short-comings of a friend I love, nor for "ears polite" to listen. For years I was the guest of this country, I shared her generous hospitality. During my long sojourn I did not come-doubt it not, my charitable friend,-face to face with a leper; although I did desire most earnestly to visit the Island of Molokai, the leper settlement.

The strains of music from that mocking, savage dance, I often heard in the distance-even not far from the Bishop's grounds-for they are most penetrating, monotonous and rythmical, as the steady trot of hoofs across a long bridge, or hard, firm course, tiresome and irritating in the extreme to a sensitive, cultivated ear, when dinned into it by the hour-far worse than "the boy's accordeon"! But one need not seek his satanic majesty-the savage, the heathen -the devil incarnate-in Hawaii more than in Dublin, Madrid or Rome, in Paris, Stockholm, Vienna or Canton, by the banks of the Arno, the River of the Nile, or on the shores of Galilee! He is to be found in all lands-continents or islands. He is "at home" among all peoples and in all climes. "I do not know; I can never see below her eyes."

San Francisco, February 22, 1893.

THE KAMEHAMEHAS.

TELL

ELL me, what is this little book all about? The Sandwich Islands; or, in other words, the Hawaiian- the Hawaiian Kingdom - Hawaii, the home of Kamehameha the Great and his successors.

These islands were re-discovered by Captain James Cook in 1778, and named by him in honor of his patron, Earl of Sandwich, who was then the first lord of the British Admiralty.

Captain Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire, in 1728, and was killed by the natives on the island of Hawaii, 14th of February, 1779, while endeavoring to recover a boat which had been stolen. He was one of the most eminent among England's celebrated navigators. He is said, indeed, to have been the first. scientific navigator, and his surveys and determinations of latitudes and longitudes are extremely correct. In 1776, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and received the Copley medal for a paper on the methods used to preserve the health of his crews. The king of England, George III., granted his widow a pension of £200, and each of his children £25; while the Royal Society did honor to his name by having a gold medal struck in his commemoration.

A statue in bronze has been placed on the spot where he met his death.

Kamehameha I., a man of shrewd sense and courage, chieftain of a part of the largest island (Hawaii) only, conquered and governed the whole group, and in 1810, "when George III. was king," caused them to be placed under British protection.

Kamehameha II. succeeded his father. He visited England in 1824; and he and his queen both died of the measles in London. Under his reign, strange to say, idolatry was abolished throughout the islands, and the way was paved for Christianity!

In 1840, Kamehameha III., called "The Good," brother of the last named, granted a constitution, consisting of king, assembly of nobles, and representative council. Prior to this the government was a despotism. In 1843, the independence of the Hawaiian kingdom was declared formally by England, the United States, and France.

Kamehameha IV. succeeded his uncle in 1854, and reigned nine years. He was a handsome, graceful, and accomplished gentleman, having traveled with his consort, "the good Queen Emma" in the United States, England, and France. The cathedral church in Honolulu is his memorial; for to him is chiefly due the planting in the islands of a branch of the Anglican Church in the fullness of its organization. It was on St. Andrew's Day that he fell asleep. He translated the English Prayer-Book into the Hawaiian tongue. His queen outlived him by nearly a quarter of a century.

He was succeeded by his brother Kamehameha V., who gave liberal aid to the Roman Catholic mission and its schools. He died in 1872.

Thus ended the grandest and noblest savage dynasty that ever lived; and their descendants, the princesses, Ruth Keelikolani, Queen Emma, and Mrs. C. R. Bishop, were women which history may be proud to chronicle.

I hear a voice at my side saying, "A lot of ignorant Kanakas." Kanaka, translated, means "man "—a lot of ignorant men, forsooth! Many of the rising generation are well-educated. A few of them speak French well enough to be understood by a courtier; can translate Horace, s'il vous plait, know something of Euclid, and are good musicians, her Majesty the Queen being no mean composer.

Now, as the English say to an over-forward child, "Retenir votre langue!" It is wiser employment, my friend, than detracting from “your neighbors.'

Lunalilo was elected in 1873, Kalakaua in 1874.

On the death of her brother, January 20, 1891, Princess Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii. The heirapparent is Princess Kaiulani, now being educated in England, daughter of the late Princess Likelike, younger sister of Kalakaua and wife of Hon. Archibald S. Cleghorn, a Scotchman, Port Collector-General of Hawaii, and Governor of Oahu.

The first missionaries came in 1820, and found a nation without a religion, and the work was begun at once. In forty years the entire Hawaiian nation was taught Christianity, besides learning to read and write,

to cipher and to sew. But there was good material to work with-never the like in any known heathen land, -and the finest climate the sun ever shone upon! A guileless, happy, laughter-loving, flower-loving, songloving, willing-to-be-taught race, with hands and feet and heart eager to help on the work! No dearth of fruit in the valleys and on the hill-sides-no scarcity of fish-no lack of water.

This chain of islands runs from southeast to northwest, and lies in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While the largest of the group, Hawaii, has an area of nearly 5,000 square miles, the next largest, Kauai, has but 780, Maui 750, Oahu 600, Niihau, the smallest of the seven, 110. There are a few islets. The entire population is about 90,000. Cook found a race numbering upwards of 400,000, but at the close of the reign of Kamehameha the Great (1819), it was depleted by wars to half that number. The race, no one can deny, is dying out, not more than 40,000 full natives and half-castes now existing.

These islands are of volcanic origin, and contain the largest volcanoes, both active and quiescent, in the world. The most prominent physical features of the group are the two lofty mountain peaks of Hawaii, Mauna Kea (white mountain), and Mauna Loa (long mountain), each of which is 14,000 feet in height. There is always snow on the tops of these mountains.

Kilauea, on the Mauna Loa mountain, the largest active volcano in the world, has a crater nine miles in circumference, and is 6,000 feet above sea-level. On