Excerpt from The Real Hawaii: Its History and Present Condition, Including the True Story of the Revolution During the period of seven months before and seven months after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, in 1892 and 1893, I was a Lieutenant on board of the U. S. S. Boston, stationed at Honolulu. The period was one of intense political activity and feeling in that city, and the development of republican sentiment, ending in the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani, interested me greatly. The people of Honolulu, of all classes and nationalities, are hospitable, social, and communicative, to a greater degree than those of any other country I have ever visited. Within a few weeks after my arrival I was upon terms of more or less friendly intimacy with nearly all of the leading men of all parties. I was more particularly brought into personal contact with leading royalists, they frequently discussing their plans and projects, without reserve, in my presence.

The evident transition state of the country, and the great importance, both from a commercial and a military standpoint, of Hawaii to the United States, caused me to study the people and the situation, as well as the past history of the country, most diligently, and to keep full current notes of the results of my observations and studies. Upon my return to the United States in the fall of 1893, I wrote out these notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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