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except the baby. I write 2 hrs. a day and loaf the balance.
At this rate it will take me a good while to finish Fergu-
son's log.

I don't think much of Hawaiian royalty. Years ago
when the late King and the present King were only
Princes—youths—they traveled in U. S. with the premier
of the kingdom, Dr. Judd, an American. On one occa-
sion, on board a southern steamer they did not go in
to dinner as soon as the bell rang, and then there was
no room for them. They were offended. The captain,
however, as soon as he knew their national character,
had a table set in a private room for himself and the
three and entertained them in a manner befitting their
high rank. That is Dr. Judd's story, and no doubt the
true one. Other accounts say they went in to dinner,
but observing their black faces, and uninformed of their
rank, the steward enforced the rule of the boat excluding
colored persons from the cabin table. They were naturally
incensed and all that could afterwards be done failed to
wipe from their minds the memory of the affront. Yet, at
its worst, it was one which was offered to them as un-
known and merely private individuals, and being entirely
unofficial could not affect them as Princes or their coun-
try through them, and should have been so received and
so valued. The men only were insulted, not the Princes,
and thus their country was no more insulted than if the
affront had been offered to the commonest Kanaka in the
realm. The King has never forgotten or forgiven that
trifling stab at his little vanity.

But Great Britain officially seized the Islands in 1843,
abused, humiliated and insulted their King, K. Ill in a
bullying and overbearing manner. Threatened the de-
struction of the little helpless capital town when it was
utterly at the mercy of his heavy guns; and finally forced

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