| Show SANDWICH ISLANDS A briet brief historical ake sketch of their settlements Gue it 11 navigator first birtt saw these island in ill 1542 bui but it can call not be said that anything was known of thera them by europeans until they were visited viQi ted by captain cook in 1778 this discoverer gave e the group the nam niec a of life sand sandwich wiell island Islan dF after lord sandwich kllc thin n chief lord of the admiralty but tile inhabitants have always called them hawaiian islands front from lia hawaii the ninie name of the largest island there are ten tell islands in ill the group only four ot of which are arc large ello enough 1 ligh to ile be of any real importance hawaii i has irrea of 4 square miles and is twice as large barp its as all the others to together eaber when vucu first discovered each each of the islands hail had a king though the origin or of tile hawaiian race i ii i still it imater matter of dispute the weight of the evidence however classing the them will tj alie e tribes t I 1 tere is nu no dou doubt bt that they ire are a i nation ot 0 considerable antiquity alie 11 I 1 C genealogy V of the kiage on the ilia island of ilaw hawaii an which liis has been kept front time intino monic murial trial by 1 nativo chroniclers lias III a list of over seventy kings c jn ill 1781 on oil tha ilia ileath death of if the lie re reigning igni ug king Kii Ka lauio lainio ku his nephew 1 young r man mail of much of the western flat pait t of tho the idland in ili self elf defense lie waged war lirt with the file other chiefs or of his island and ti ion with tin the kill kings of ill the other 61 and and at la lisl t bro brought 0 it t the group under tinder ll 11 iiii i i crill t acil and announced himself king of all tile eslanda land lit MO in the following year lie he wrote to III air I 1 expressing hii desire to acknowledge I 1 tle the kino king of england as his is sovereign and ti tp place the hands I 1 under broush protection 1 a I plan to which king george readily consented I 1 abolished abolish cd tile the taboo apstein and human sacrifices organized an all army lind navy and under nini him the inhabit ants made el great advances in civilization hobt 0 of f his ilous of enlightenment we ie learned beamed front from the explorer V vancouver alin while tile the west buist several winters at IlO hawaii wull in ill 1819 1810 I 1 nied aud ami was succeeded tic by his elde eldest eldea A gwi oil Lilia lillo who on n assuming tin the aci roal al power adopted liis his fat fathers heri latue as aa a title and became 1 known as 11 II visited vi sited england with his queen and ami both died there in july 1821 1 1 lie he was succeeded by bv his bi brother other who however did aid not assume tile the royal pol power cl 1833 the kill kingdom 11 being in the meantime undo under r the regency of Q quern lieen ka alu 11 I 1 till the clovio dowager of Knie hanieh I 1 under ha III na 1810 84 0 tile the people were granted n written constitution recognizing the three 0 grand divi division s of 0 king legislature and judges arld and ill liis his ician 11 tile the Chris chi istian timit religion of tile islands great britain france tind tile the united states acknowledged led ed the independence pen pent dence lonce of ili hia government 1 and I treaties were made with ethehe ebest it and id others powers on oil his hia death in 1851 be was succeeded by 1 ja ilia his nephew arld and adopted oil as eli anielia IV after a brief but yer very useful reign for lie was a man of talent and and public spirit this ruler died in and the tha royal power pawed passed to his brother kam ivam chamelli V this king changed the constitution nl lIkIng it more inore absolute aud and the ahr change after considerable sid erable opposition i vis as adopted by the people at liis his death in 1872 the line of 1 I became extinct 1 I Lun ahlo oin if ut of an old bamily if chief cli irl I 1 wits all liy III tile hie to bile succeed reed upon Illik ablo s z death in fit 1 breary br uary divid darld Kalak mi ih i ruler wis ele belr ivd it t ali it h fmc anic the ilie I 1 ari ni I 1 ir DM I 1 I 1 i it in tilt L bair I 1 n i 1 ii ii I 1 laii ij ft it to ill hie diug ind and 1 I 1 pl pi i it i I 1 J 11 lie biliti lit I 1111 dot up of I 1 t I 1 i of taw ur or it li III 1 I bie mm min i power r rc i kie I 1 king und tho tie cirii 10 alii lo 1 tt ti r i 1 ili I i 4 I 1 if f f 1 r ii if 11 rii ll it ii 1 nil I I 1 ir I 1 I 1 niety k lity eight I 1 i pi i r I 1 1 0 cla ch claws nv ws t id 1 I the ill C jui i lit if ip eme eine court I 1 I 1 u two other othel it i lot i burts so fil a 0 li if it a it 11 AT Until tile t of 1 I which im ini both an eju anal sins and a property ion ia fici i 0 eja |
