. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ive land a few daysbefore. No people have stronger love for theirrulers than the natives of Hawaii. At a publicreception given Liliuokalani a short time before^,many of them had come miles to pay her hom-age. To-day their absence spoke, more forciblyfor them than any words could have done, theirfeelings. In more ways than one the occasion reminded thespectators of a funeral, which it partly was: thelast rites over a traditional government. The na-tional anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, was played forthe last time; the bugle tappe
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ive land a few daysbefore. No people have stronger love for theirrulers than the natives of Hawaii. At a publicreception given Liliuokalani a short time before^,many of them had come miles to pay her hom-age. To-day their absence spoke, more forciblyfor them than any words could have done, theirfeelings. In more ways than one the occasion reminded thespectators of a funeral, which it partly was: thelast rites over a traditional government. The na-tional anthem, Hawaii Ponoi, was played forthe last time; the bugle tapped, and the Ha-waiian ensign of the Kamehamehas, under whichmany of those present had been born, sank fromsight for ever as a national emblem. Amid theintense silence of the onlookers came the buglecall again, the band played the Star SpangledBanner, when Old Glory rose on the tropicalbreeze, henceforth the national flag of the firstrepublic of the Pacific. Cheers now rang on theair; eyes that were moist with tears a minutebefore brightened as the new colours made a beau-. p ANNEXATION, 179 tiful picture overhead, which seemed to augur wellfor the future. The hour fraught with so much sadness to theHawaiian passed, and having a better and fullerappreciation of the new era dawning upon theirhome land, the new subjects of Uncle Sam movedabout with lighter hearts than they had knownsince the beginning of the revolution. The repub-lic has nothing to fear from them, for more loyalsubjects never acknowledged fealty to a sovereign. The population of the islands in 1896 was109,020, divided as follows among the differentraces : Hawaiian, 31,019 ; mixed Hawaiian, 8,485;Japanese, 24,000; Chinese, 21,000; Portuguese,15,000 5 other Europeans, 4,000; Americans,3,086. But these figures do not forecast thetrue situation. Notwithstanding the small per-centage of their number, the islands are anAmerian colony. What Hawaii has gained ofcivilisation, of religion, of education, and govern-ment has b
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