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104 LILIUOKALANI AND THE REVOLUTION. kalani, attempted a counter revolution for the purpose of | restoring the old constitution. On July 2d of that year they seized the palace and Government ‘buildings, forti- fied them, and planted artillery, but could not use the guns effectively, and were no match for the trained white militia, who without the loss of a man captured the build- ings and drove out the defenders, killing seven, and wounding twelve. The King died in 1891, and he was succeeded by his sister, Liliuokalani.. Her heiress pre- sumptive was’ Princess Kaiulani, born October 16th, 1875, the daughter of the Queen's deceased younger sis- ter, and Mr. A. S. Cleghorn, a Scotchman, who was Goy- ernor of Oahu, after the death of the Queen’s husband, Mr. Dominis. Queen Liliuokalani was born near the city of Hono- lulu, September 2d, 1838. Her father’s name was Ka- paakea, and her mother’s Keohokalole. Her great- grandaunt was the celebrated Queen Kapirhani, who was. one of the first converts to Christianity. Her father lived in a large grass house, which was surrounded by smaller ones, the homes of those who were connected with his service. But she was not destined to grow up in the home of her parents, for almost immediately after her birth she was wrapped in the finest of cloth, made of tapa, and taken to the abode of another chief, who adopt- ed her. His name was Paki, and that of his wife’s Kouia. the latter being a granddaughter of Kamehameha I. Their only daughter, Bernice Pauaki, afterwards became the wife of Mr. Charles R. Bishop. Although her own father and mother had in all ten GEomicbooks.com