ABSTRACT
The bards, however, could recite from memory the names of seventy-seven successive kings; and if only five years be allowed to a reign, the traditionary history would extend through nearly 400 years. But the reigns were probably of greater average length; since the first three Kamehamehas occupied the present
century till the year 1854, when the late king ascended the throne at the age of twenty-one, and reigned ten years.
