Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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any cause, the maintenance of such a position of benevolent
neutrality should be found by Hawaii to be impracticable, this
governmnent would then unhesitatingly meet the altered situ-ttion by seeking an avowedly American solution for the grave
issues presented."
Many elements contributed in making Hawaii a nation of importance to itself and abroad.
In April, 1865, a bureau of immigration was formed, anl(d inl
July 500 coolies arrived from China under contracts with the
Hawaiian government, one of the first realizations of a policy
advocated from the early 'forties, and particularly for twenty
years by Robert C. Wyllie, to introduce foreign labor to (levelop
domestic resources.
Leprosy was first observed in the Islands in 1853, and by 1864
it had begun to spread. Segregation of lepers was lbegun in
1865, and at about the same time the present site of the leper
settlement on a small peninsula of the island of Molokai, isolated
from the main portion of the island by almost inaccessible mountain ranges, was selected. In 1866 about 140 patients were sent
there.
The board of education was created in 1865, by an act l)assed
ly the legislature on January 10, and Abraham Fornan(ler, the
historian, was appointe(l insplector-general of schools.
Queen Emma left the Islands in May, 18165, for lEngland( on
the Blritish warship Clio, and returned to Honolulu ()ctober 22,
1866, after an eventful visit in England, (luring which tinme
()Queen Victoria formed a strong attachment for her. (f Queen
Emma's visit, Canon F. W. Earrar, the famous Englisil divine,
in his reminiscences of Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and witl
reference to his long service at Westminster Abbley, sail: 'Tt
often fell to the Dean's lot to show great potentates,oer the
albey. 'Of all the foreign kings and queens,' he use(l to say,
'wh\Iom I have ever shown over the abbey, who (lo vou thlink took
by far the most intellig<ent interest in it, and knew most about
its details:' Few p)ersons would have guessed that it was Queen