THE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
His Majesty the King of the Sandwich Islands is reported to have said that he liked America immensely; but he should imagine the people were not much accustomed to t]»e presence of royalty. A letter from New York says that:—" From the day of his landing in San Francisco until he found refuge in his hotel bedroom at Washington he has been the object of a curiosity that could not always be kept within the bounds of decorum. There is no particular reason why anybody should care about the Hawaiian monarch here, and though there is a widespread desire to see what he is like, I am sorry to say that it displays itself less by cordiality than impertinence. The king is said to be the son of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor, who married a Kanaka princess. _He is described as a quiet, kindly, patriotic gentleman of good parts and fair education, who sincerely desires to improve his little country, and is not averse to study. He shows himself decidedly averse to the American scheme for obtaining a naval station at Pearl River, near Honolulu, to which his good-natured predecessor was ready to agree; but he has always cultivated the friendship of this Government. He made a tour of his archipelago in a vessel of the American Navy, and the same ship brought him with due ceremony to San Fr*aci*«o»'j
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 244, 22 March 1875, Page 3
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