ABSTRACT
No account of the Hawaiian kingdom could now be considered complete without a notice of the life
and services of the stat8sman whose name stands at the head of this chapter. The telegram which brought the news of his death on the 19th of October 1865, made it possible to speak jn the present history of the powers and character of a man whose devotion to the land of his adoption was as remarkable as it was disinterested. During his lifetime, references to his labours or to his idiosyncrasies would have seemed the language of flattery or of unfriendly criticism; but now it is the decent act of his survivors to linger a short space beside his grave, to recount his somewhat eventful career, and to trace in bas-relief upon the marble of his tomb a sketch of the man.
