Identifier: hawaiiitspeoplel00twom (find matches)
Title: Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Twombly, Alexander S. (Alexander Stevenson), 1832-1907
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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death of Prince Lot, Kamehameha V.On the 10th of that month, my husband and I weresummoned to the palace to attend the dying monarch;one by one other chiefs, with a few of their trustedretainers, also arrived. The disease was pronounced bythe medical men to be dropsy on the chest. At nine oclock, on the day following, we were drawnup in a little circle about his bed; . . . the mind of theking was still clear, and his thoughts, like our own,were evidently on the selection of a future ruler for theisland kingdom. But the king relapsed into unconsciousness andpassed away without having named his successor to thethrone. So passed away the last of the Kamehamehas in themale line. He had reigned nine years and died in theforty-third year of his age, December 11, 1872. 288 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE.—« ■ » CHAPTER XXIV. ONE YEAR OF LUNALILO AND THEN HAWAIIS LASTKING. —1873-1883 A.D. Owing to the failure of the last king to appoint hissuccessor, the legislature was obliged by the constitu-
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KING LUNALILO. LUNALILO AND THEN HAWAIIS LAST KING. 289 tion to choose the next one. Lunalilo, a good-natured,jovial, but somewhat dissipated young man, calledPrince Bill by his familiar associates, was the foremostcandidate for the vacancy, being the late kings firstcousin. His mother was the niece and stepdaughter ofKamehameha the Great. But there were grave reasons, says the ex-queen inher Story of Hawaii, ^ why the choice was injurious andindeed hardly constitutional; for Prince Williamshabits, even at this time, were such that he was underthe guardianship of Mr. Charles R. Bishop, the banker(husband of Bernice Pauahi Paki, the last of the Kame-hamehas in the female line), his property being out ofhis own control, while he received from his guardian anallowance of only twenty-five dollars a month as spend-ing money. However, Lunalilo, on the 17th of December, 1872,published an address to the Hawaiian people, askingthem to vote for the purpose of instructing their repre-sentatives

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