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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warships always had a member of the royalty aboard, a fact
whiich presaged many wonderful receptions aid (lanices ashore.ndl royal times alboard for the _irls.
There was just as- much interest among1~) the girls, of the Kala-.
katia Il~eriodl in going aboardl a xvarshil) to (lance away an afternoon or evening onl tile quarterdeck, as In go1ing to a bail at
tile ipaiace. At the 01(1 boat landJing in Quecn street the giris
and their chaperons were miet byv junior officers witih launchies,
or the s1hips' ligg loats rowed by sturdly bluiejackets, and escortedl
in fiue style to tile wvarshilps whicil were usually anchored in
"Naval Row" across tile llarior near Sumner's islet or the ligllthou~Itse, very far awvay from (lown townl. The warships were not
too (listant, ilowever, for immedliatelyv a warship dlropp1edl her
aincihor ill tile row a telephone was placed1 on board, alld hour
after hour tile lbelles of Honolulu conversed over the wire with
tile officers andl ladle their elqg-a-ements for (linner lparties, horseback rides, (lips at the b)each, picnics anld all mannier of goodi
tims I Iiihe telephone was tisedl so mutch that tlle operator saidi
it often becamec clop'o-ed "b~ecause so much ta-ffy wvas going over
it."' (_)ften tile king( wonldi go aboard to atteln(l the afternoon
(lances. attiredl, as a rule, in white fla-nnels, oftenl with a dark
roundlabout coat ain(l straw hat, attenldedl by the -young princes,
_DIN)avd and Kuhio, Vand the chamberlain-, Col. Cuirtis P). laikeat,
whlo, in Ilis (lay wvas also one of the gallants, and1 who, as envoy,
ext raordinarv alaid mlinister p)lenipotentiary, vi sitedi every court
of EuItrope, or by1 Col. Tames WV. Robertson, or young- Purvis.
The (lances onl tile quarterdeck wvere ever-to -be-rememibered
occas.ions. Eroml 2 to 5:30 o'clock the shinps handl playedI and
tile officers attended strictly to tile bulsiness of entertaining and
(loing it royally', serving- ices andl salads, Vallil there was alwvays a
lbeautiftil silver puinchbowl, for aboard each warship there was
a past master in the act of concoctinlg the most w~londierfuil punlch
ev-er tastedl.
HIlere were later (lays, wvhel1 tile Char-leston was in H-onoluilu,
when tile admiral, captain,an(1 officers not onlyv gave balls on
the quarterdleck. hut entertainedl fornmallv ashore at the Royal