. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. ates tocollect funds for Anglican purposes at Honolulu ; butbeing strenuously opposed, he was unsuccessful. The king personally translated the English PrayerBook into our (Hawaiian) language. He also foundedthe Queens Hospital . . and both the foreign and do-mestic affairs of his government were ably R. C. Wylie continued as his Minister of ForeignAffairs throughout his reign. The queen gave an heir to the kingdom ^Nlay 20,1858,and great was the joy of the nation. In relation toforeign affairs a treaty of reciprocity was
. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. ates tocollect funds for Anglican purposes at Honolulu ; butbeing strenuously opposed, he was unsuccessful. The king personally translated the English PrayerBook into our (Hawaiian) language. He also foundedthe Queens Hospital . . and both the foreign and do-mestic affairs of his government were ably R. C. Wylie continued as his Minister of ForeignAffairs throughout his reign. The queen gave an heir to the kingdom ^Nlay 20,1858,and great was the joy of the nation. In relation toforeign affairs a treaty of reciprocity was arranged byJudge Lee at Washington, in 1855, but it was not rati-fied by the Senate. The next year, Hon. E. H. Allen LIHOLIHO, KAMEHAMEHA IV. 265 made another attempt, but it failed, and the countrywaited twenty years before receiving the expected Avas one of the projects inaugurated in this reign,and may be placed to the kings credit. Judge Lee died in 1857 and his loss was keenly feltby the king. A new treaty with France was ratified in. QUEENS HOSPITAL, HONOLULU. 1858, limiting duties on wines and brandies for tenyears. The French commissioner presented the kingwith several costly presents from Napoleon III., one ofthem being a Sevres dinner set. It was in 1857 that the Hawaiian government sentand took possession of several small islands northwestof the group. But the most memorable event in this 266 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE. reign was the founding of the Queens Hospital, alludedto by the ex-queen. There were some public improvements in this old fort Avas demolished in 1857. A water front oftwo thousand feet was built up, and cost two hundred
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