| Show sold cannon for f or gin it was has in the dais of 0 the kingdom borne bome one of the court of the dusky islanders conceived the idea that ila ha wall wail should be graced by a navy this was particularly desired because king kalakaua had a row on hand with his brother manaich at samoa so a navy was nas acquired the navy consisted of a comei ted teakwood trading schooner fitted with a third mast and full rigged the ila ha wilian admiralty adral ralty provided the navy with a lot of old brass cannons en listed a crew of natives and forthwith sent them out to battle with the ob Sarno ans away sailed the navy to the south ward bent on an errand that should shoud sustain the honor of the hawaiian flag and the prowess of the hawaiian bluejacket if he wore a jacket A month cassed and the month wore into two months with not a word from the seat of war an acx lous ious manaich scanned the blue horl hori yon von with weary cea for a sign of 0 the fleet not a sign until along about the eleventh olee eleNe nth week came a me message that the navy va ma in distress oil off idilo IN followed soon afterward everything had gone well for a fc icv alig da s until the he clew had consumed all of the gin it had taken aboard ahen hen the iho butke began they could not fight without gin and to get it ft the brave tars nero nere ivady beady for any sacrifice so they put into hilo chev traded the baass cannons for more gin and for eleven weeks held out against no orae morse a toe foe than the seductive distill ed strong from holland the navy returned d in als disgrace grace the admiralty vent ment out of business and the flag was vas loutrel on the only ship in the navy for many years the kal was a hulk bulk in the honolulu harbor the last and the only mano nar ar the royal family ever owned san francisco call |
