Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ough ourcustoms free—or nearly so—from duty. Now the islands are more prosperous than ever be-fore ; and this great triumph of the king, in the interests of his subjects, has made him ex-ceedingly po]nilar. As we were driving past the kings palace, we observed a collection of natives in frontof the main entrance, who, upon alighting from our carriage and going near, we learned weresinging the kings welcome home again, he having returned only a day or two previous fromh
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . ough ourcustoms free—or nearly so—from duty. Now the islands are more prosperous than ever be-fore ; and this great triumph of the king, in the interests of his subjects, has made him ex-ceedingly po]nilar. As we were driving past the kings palace, we observed a collection of natives in frontof the main entrance, who, upon alighting from our carriage and going near, we learned weresinging the kings welcome home again, he having returned only a day or two previous fromhis visit to America. Several hundred of them had also come bearing little tokens of regardto their king, such as eggs, jiotatoes, cabbage, money, and any thing by which they mightexpress their loyalty to their sovereign, and their joy and gladness at his return. We weremuch interested in witnessing this devotion of the people to their ruler, and in gazing uponhis great piles of vegetable gifts, as well as listening to the Hawaiian festivities, partaking sothoroughly of the aboriginnl custom of celebrating this HAWAIIAN WOMEN. i HONOLULU, OR HARBOR OF REST. 49 The king, having observed us near his palace, came to the front door and invited lis to€nter, which courtesy we gladly accepted. 1 had a very enjoyable chat with his majesty, inthe course of which he e.\[)ressed himself as having been very much pleased with every thingwhich came to his notice during his recent visit to America. He speaks the English lan-guage fluently, is a good conversationalist, and is seemingly as thoroughly polite and intelli-gent as any of our members of Congress. From the ])alace we went to the House of Parliament, a fine structure, whose walls weretastefully adorned with pictures, having for their subject the history of the island. We alsovisited one of the native churches, having seating capacity for at least twenty-five hundredpeople, where the gospel is preached in the Hawaiian lang
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