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Show Sold Cannon for Gin j It waa In the daya of thn kingdom. Home one of the court of the duaky lalandera conceived thn Idea that Hawaii Ha-waii ahould he graced hy a nnvy. Thla iwaa particularly dealred becauan King 'Kalakaua had a row on band wllh hla brother monarch at Hamoa. Ho a navy waa acquired. Tho navy cotialated of a converted leak wood trading achooner flttod wllh third niaal and Nil rigged. The Hawaiian Ha-waiian admiralty provided the navy wllh a lot of old braaa cannona, en Hated a crew of natlvea and forthwith aent them out to battle with the oo-atrepcroua oo-atrepcroua Knmoana. Away aalled the navy lo Ihe eoulh-ward, eoulh-ward, bent on an errand that ahould sustain thn honor of Ihe Hawallnn flag and the proweaa of the Hawaiian bluejacket If he worn a Jacket. A month paaaed and the month .wore Into two iniiutha, with not a word from the neat of war. An ens-loua ens-loua monarch acanned the hluu horl- ron Willi weary ryea for a elgn of the fleet. Not a algn. until along about tha eleventh week catne a mcHMngn that the navy waa In dlatreaa off Hllo. Ki-ptimallona Ki-ptimallona followed aiMin afterward. Kverylhlng had gone welt fur a few daya until the crew had consum-cd consum-cd all of Ihn gin It had taken aboard when the crulan began. They could not flKht without gin, and to get It the brave lara were ready for any ancrlfl.ee. Ko they put Into Kilo. They traded thn braaa cannona for more gin and for eleven wecka held out agalnat no worse a foe than the icdtictlve dlstlll-ed dlstlll-ed alrong watera from Holland. The navy returned In diagram. The admiralty went out of business and the Aug waa lowered on the only ahlp In the navy. For many yeara the Kal-mlaloha Kal-mlaloha waa a hulk In the Honolulu harbor, the Inat and the only nian-o'-war tho royal family ever owned. I Han Kraurlrtco Tall. |