HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



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He abolished human sacrifice and introduced many 

 other reforms most creditable to savage rule. With 

 the death of Kamehameha V the reigning family be- 

 came extinct, and Kalakaua was elected king. He died 



Fig. 9. — Natives and native house. 



at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Jan. 20, 1891. His 

 sister, Liliuokalani, succeeded to the throne. By a 

 bloodless revolution she was deposed, and the kingdom 

 became a republic Jan. 19, 1893. After a number of 

 futile previous attempts annexation was effected by an 



