This feeble personage had crape enough around his hat to express the grief of an entire nation, and as usual he neglected no opportunity of making himself conspicuous and exciting the admiration of the simple Kanakas.

Oh! noble ambition of this modern Richelieu! It is interesting to contrast the funeral ceremonies of the Princess Victoria with those of her noted ancestor Kamehameha the Conqueror, who died fifty years ago--in 1819, the year before the first missionaries came.
"On the 8th of May, 1819, at the age of sixty-six, he died, as he had lived, in the faith of his country.

It was his misfortune not to have come in contact with men who could have rightly influenced his religious aspirations.

Judged by his advantages and compared with the most eminent of his countrymen he may be justly styled not only great, but good.

To this day his memory warms the heart and elevates the national feelings of Hawaiians.