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native feeling by appointing a native named Nahaolelua to a 

 seat in the cabinet as Minister of Finance, but his first arrange- 

 ment was upset, and a good deal of confusion subsequently- 

 prevailed. 



The Queen, Kapiolani, is a Hawaiian lady of high character 

 and extreme amiability, and both King and Queen have been 

 exemplary in their domestic relations. 



Kalakaua's first act was to proclaim his brother, Prince Le- 

 leiohoku, his successor, investing him at the same time with the 

 title, " His Royal Highness," and his second was to reorganize 

 the military service, with the view of making it an efficient and 

 well-disciplined force. 



There is something melancholy in the fact that this small 

 Pacific kingdom has to fall back upon the old world resource 

 of a standing army, as large, in proportion to its population, as 

 that of the German Empire. 



Those readers who have become interested in the Sandwich 

 Islands through the foregoing Letters, will join me in the 

 earnest wish that this people, which has advanced from 

 heathenism and barbarism to Christianity and civilization in the 

 short space of a single generation, may enjoy peace and pro- 

 sperity under King Kalakaua, that the extinction which 

 threatens the nation may be averted, and that under a gracious 

 Divine Providence, Hawaii may still remain the inheritance of 

 the Hawaiians. 



THE END. 



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