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impression was produced on all present, a new impulse 
was given to the means already employed for the in¬ 
struction and improvement of the people, from which 
most advantageous results have already appeared. 
They w ere also made acquainted by Boki and his com¬ 
panions with the kind reception, generous treatment, 
and marked attentions, which the late king and queen 
and their suite had received while in England. This 
intelligence, communicated by those whose testimony 
would be received with the most entire credence, 
would at once confirm the attachment and confidence 
they have so long felt towards England. 
No disturbance of the general tranquillity, nor change 
in the government of the islands, has resulted from this 
event. Kihoriho left a younger brother, Kauikeouli, 
about ten years of age, who is acknowledged by the 
chiefs as his successor. A regency will govern during 
his minority, and the executive authority will probably 
continue to be exercised by KoraimoJcu , and the other 
chiefs with whom Kihoriho left it when he embarked 
for England. 
The queen, who accompanied him, and who died at 
the same time, has left a fond mother and an affectionate 
people to lament her loss: she was the daughter of Ta- 
mehameha and Kalakua, and was born about the year 
1797 or 1798, being two years younger than Kihoriho, 
and about twenty-six years of age when she left the 
islands. Like all the persons of distinction, she had 
many names, but that by which she was generally 
known, was Kamehamaru , (shade of Kameha,) from 
Jcameha, a contraction of her father’s name, and maru, 
shade. She was distinguished for good-nature, and was 
much beloved by all her subjects. The poor people. 
