The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-01
HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING
OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

nations in mercantile transactions Tn
chiefs themselves from their regard &c
Vancouver. and a desire of increasin
their national Importance were no
averse TO an alliance, even if 1t implie
some degree of vassalage: though thei
disposition to acknowledge themseIye
solely. and wholly British subjects wa
doubtless exaggerated. Their inter
course, from the commencement of tn
century, had been mostly with Amerf
cans. and their predictions towards tina
nation were gradually increasing Whel
the deputation arrived they found fort,
ships at anchor at Hawaii and Oahu
nearly all whalers from the United
States The English Government uni
formly manifested a courtesy towards
the islanders that was highly honorable
Without asserting claim to the ISL
ands, they recognized their nationality
by numerous acts of courtesy, and en-
couragement toward civilization. On the
first of May uss2) of this year Captain
Kent presented to Liholiho in the
name of His Britannia Majesty. a
schooner of seventy tons, called the
Prince Regent" fully rugged and cop
pered. with an armament of six guns.
This was the Compromised vessel of
Vancouver to Kamehameha. (Jarves }
The Hawaiian language was now put
into a written shape, a task. of no lit
tie difficulty. Ere long the New Testa-
ment. and some time later the whole
Bible was translated into Hawaiian. I'm
these respects we.'' says Bishop Staley
who are called to labor in the Vineyard
at this more advanced stage in the his
tory of the Hawaiian Kingdom may traly
say Other men have labored and we
are entering into their labors.'
The King, the leading chiefs and
chiefesses eagerly engaged in the task of
learning to read. Books were printed,
of course of very rudimentary kind:
and among scholars so apt as the Ha-
waiians naturally are il is no marvel
that at least the elements of knowledge
were acquired. In 1928 Liholiho or Ka-
mehameha II and his Queen embarked
for England, having resolved to incur
the risk of long and tedious voyage,
in the hope it is said of placing their
kingdom under the protection of the
British Crown. They also had other
aims. for the King, in a letter to King
George ", acknowledging the gift of
schooner which / mentioned before, had
Our former idolatrous sys-
tenn has been abolished, and we wish
the Protestant religion of your Males
tvs dominion to be practiced here. And
we have the authority of his late MajeS-
ty kamehameha in the preface to the
Hawaiian Book of Common Prayer, for
that the realization of this
wish was one of the reasons why the
long voyage was undertaken. The ex-
petition, however, had a very unfor
tunate end Liholiho and his Queen both
lied in London of measles. Their re-
mains were sent back to the Islands with
al due honors in British man-of-war-
La Blonde, Captain Lord Byron. CThe !
natives had and still have a custom of |
naming their children from some pecu-
iarity, or circumstance connected with |
heir birth, and so / suppose 1T was !
liter this commander that our Hawaiian |
vashman, employed for many years |
sloried under the name of 'Lo Pailani' |
Lord Byron)." Jarves gives a most in |
eresting account of the visit of their |
Majesties to England which / think you !
would all like to hear:
THE appearance of the royal travel !
ers. before suitable dresses were pro-
-ided was for London something novel. |
Samamalu exhibited herself in loose |
and a long bedgown of colored .
Telveteen. L;holiho was in a similar sos-
ume. However, the tailors soon fitted /
he males to the newest cut; and Pari-
with the court fashion of the
lay. Corsets for the first time encircled !
heir ample waists; and the London fair.
n their rage for the strangers, sought |
of the turban that graced the |
row of the Queen The contrast be-
ween the simple malo of their deceased
ather. and the splendid habiliments with /
which his children We're clothed, must |
lave excited curious reflections in the /
minds of the attendants They behaved |
However with propriety; though on one !
occasion one of their party, seeing a |
nullet, which resembled the speciesS
ound in their island waters, seized il I
With avidity, and hurried home, where /
he impatience of the royal guests would !
lot await its dressing. 1t was devoured |
aw and was no doubt the most savory I
lorsel they tasted while abroad" Ooes
- 4 Il .l1rr
f our friends abroad who say they long
or a dish of fish and poiD In the
Bishop Museum at Kalihi VIII be seen
he paintings of these two sovereigns.
one thinks of looking for them.
''Liloliho was succeeded by his brother.
III, and it was during his
eign, about 1929, that the Roman Church
fas introduced into the ISLANDS, but it
yas not until about 1889 that they had
ny liberation here Meanwhile the
usiness of the Islands was increasing
nd in 1876 no less than GA vessels touch
d at the ports, mostly whaiers. For
ign residents also increased in number
he year 1S45 is memorable for the ar
wal in Honolulu of Mr.. Robert G. Wyl-
e, a Scotch gentleman of fortune, who
Tas ere long placed by the King in the
Office of Foreign Minister,
-hich he continued TO hold for nearly
twenty-five years To his zeal. industry
he Kingdom, is due in no small degree
ne fact that Hawaii now holds place,
the family of recognized nations IN /.
AS the Royal School was founded for
he education of the chiefs and chief
sses.
In 1877 the Princes Alexander Liholiho
olani and Lot Kamehameha. were sent
n a voyage to the United States, En-
land and France. They were accom-
anied by DR.. Judd, They had been care
lilly instructed from boyhood in the
nglish language, hence that great
lperioffty in general intelligence. and
which distinguished them
-om the mass of their fellow country
len. / remember my grandmother say
* that they were two of the most
raceful, gentlemanly youths one could
yer meet. They met with kindly notice
ON the court in England, as well as
sewhere. and gathered new ideas which
ere not lost upon them regarded
9th the English state and the English
hurch. At Westminster Abbey they at
ended divine service, with the beauty
nd solemnity of which they Were much
truck. and Prince Liholiho kept a diary