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party than their great gentleness and good humour, and the 
readiness with which they accommodated themselves to the 
customs of those they were among. 
The Emperor Don Pedro flattered his majesty Riho 
Riho very much, by receiving him and his companions in a 
polite and generous manner, so that their visit to Brazil 
was exceedingly gratifying to them. To the Consul-Ge¬ 
neral the king presented a beautiful cloak and a feather fan 
or small kahile, called him one of his Erees, and desired 
that he should be adopted as the brother of Karaimoku and 
Roki. Their stay at Rio de Janeiro was extremely short, 
but it was long enough for Mr. Young*, a man half En¬ 
glish, half Hawaiian, who was of Riho Riho’s suite, to 
render himself so troublesome, that the king resolved to 
proceed to England without him; but he afterwards re¬ 
joined his majesty, and was of singular use to the royal 
party. 
When Riho Riho embarked, he had taken twenty-five 
thousand dollars on board with him. Captain Starbuck, 
who took on himself to regulate the king’s expenditure, 
alleged that three thousand had been spent during their 
short stay at Rio Janeiro, a certain number on the road 
* The son of Young the friend of Tamehameha I., who was governor of Ha¬ 
waii, while the king was engaged in his military expeditions in the other Islands. 
