The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-04
European Correspondence.
[FRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

lFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
LETTER No. 76.-LoNDoN, Jan. 25, 1882.
HAWAIIAN oYALT IN EUROPE.
Apropos of King KaIakaua's visit to Lon
don last year, the Times publishes a letter,
recalling Queen Emma's visit in 1866, and
recording the fact that just 81 years go,
"their savage Majesties of the Sandwich Is
and CKamehameha III and Queen Kama
malu), visited England and were lionized
over London, creating a different impress
sion from the one left behind by their pres
ent successor to the Hawaiian throne. Miss
Berry, the author, met them at Mr.. Can
ning's house and describes their persons
and their dress, which would seem to have
seriously embarrassed their movements.
Lord Byron adds that they lived very much
on fish and were particularly fond of oys-
tiers. They resided at Osborne's Hotel, in
the Adelphi, where their bill appears to
nave amounted to no greater sum on an av-
erage than about II shillings a head for
their food, which consisted of poultry, fish
and fruit. 1t is said that the once popular
song of 1.-The King of the CannibaI Islands,"
was composed in reference to this royal Wis
it. The Royal pair, however, did not long
survive, both dying in the Adelphi, in July,
1924, from an attack of measles and infiam-
nation of the lungs, and they were buried
in the vaults under the parish church of St.
Martins in the fields" The last statement
is certainly quite wrong, for both of the
bodies were brought back to Honolulu by
the chief Boki, in the British frigate Blonde
and now lie buried in the Royal Mauso-
leum.
AND OTHER NOTES.
"a Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-
NEor - nv 4 GArlA, ~ nnn;pr n,tHo. -
"At Home in Fiji" In this work the au-
thor, q niece of Sir Arthur Gordon's, gives
an account of Il visit made to several grou ps
in the South Pacific. By invitation she
accompanied the ROman-CathOlic BishoD of
Samoa, Monsignore EllOs, on a tour through
his diocese on board of the French warship
Seignelay and thus visited Tonga, Vavau,
Tahiti, MoOrea and other Pacific islands.
A number of sketches by the author illus
trate this interesting book. Mr.. r. G.. Hal
iburton is about to publish a book on the
collected legends of the Pleiades and the
Great Bear, chiefly from Polynesian sources.
DR.. y. Lessons, IA surgeon in the French
navy, who has passed several years in the
Pacific, has just issued the second volume of
his book, Les POlynesiens, leur origine,
leurs migration, ct leur language" (Sv PIP
800, Paris, LerouX, 1881, 10 fcs.) In this
work the author comes to the not generally
accepted conclusion, that the ~POlynesian
race must have originated in New Zealand
or Whereabouts, a theory which he attempts
to sustain by many anthrOpological and
linguistic details. In his report to the Adj
miralty on the work still to be lone in sur
veying and charting the seaboards of var
ious parts of the world, Lieut.. Temple, r.
N, also mentions the Hawaiian islands.
BY a recent Royal proclamation the British
coinage and mint law is now applied to the
Colony of Fiji.
NAVAL NEWS.
H. NJ. :. Triumph, the British flagship
in the Pacific, was expected to arrive at
Panama from the south coast early this
month. The recent explosion of patent
driers OH board of this vessel is now thought
to furnish the true solution of the Doterel
disaster, and a new enquiry has been order
ed to take place. Admiral DeHorsey, late
CommandeT-in-Chief on the Pacific station,
has written a letter on the British navy, in
which he states that the Triumph, although
called a If knot ship in the official lists, is
not able to make more thai IL to Il knots
at sea. This weeks Illustrated London
NeIUS contains n fine engraving of thisB Brit
ish warship. The Russian frigate Duke of
Edinburg passed through the Suez Canal
en- route to the Pacific. The young Grand
Duke Constantine, a brother to the Queen
of Greece, is on board as one of tn the Off
GERS. Prince Henry of Prussia, who is now
passing the winter in Egypt, will go on
another cruise next spring, in the corvette
Olga. The steamship Ceylon was at Colom-
TOO, January 18th, on her cruise round the
world.