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begun to rally, good hopes were entertained that he also 
would speedily recover. 
He himself felt so well that he saw’ Captain Charlton, 
w’ho had just received the appointment of British Consul at 
the Sandwich Islands, and gave him letters and presents to 
deliver to the different chiefs, and secret instructions for the 
regent, in a manner that showed king-craft not to be the 
mere growth of polished societies. Besides these, he wrote 
further instructions by Captain Stavers, of the ship Offley, 
bound for Oahu, and also intrusted him with handsome pre¬ 
sents for the chiefs. 
This was on the 4th of July. On the 8th, no hope 
remaining of the queen’s recovery, her husband was ap¬ 
prised of her danger. He caused himself to be immediately 
placed in his arm-chair and wheeled to her apartment; 
when, being lifted upon her bed and placed by her side, he 
embraced her affectionately, and they both wept bitterly. 
He then dismissed the attendants, and they remained for 
some time alone together. Till then the king was supposed 
to be recovering; but it was understood that at this mourn¬ 
ful interview these young people* had agreed that one 
should not survive the other. At five o’clock he desired 
to be conveyed to his own bed, where he lay without 
* He was 28, she 22 years of age. 
