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7 - <4 i fae as “gh. - a> ee " - . , LILIUOKALANI AND THE REVOLUTION. 107 _ health, but it, was so different from the life she had been leading, she did not like it there. Prince William offered himself to her, and they became engaged, but the en- gagement was of short duration. Kouia died July 2d, 1857, and the death of her mother placed Liliuokalani still more under the charge of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop. Liliuokalani was married to Mr. Dominis the sixteenth of September, 1862, at the home of the Bishops, who were then residing in the house which her father, Paki, had built, and which, as before stated, is now the Arlington Hotel. Her husband then took her to his home, known as Washington Place, which afterwards became her private residence. Liliuokalani’s brother, the King Kalakaua, began his reign on February 12th, 1874. In the autumn of that year he made a trip around the world. A curious incident occurred when the King and his suite were nearing Cairo. “On leaving Suez the chief official of the Egyptian party asked if it was His Majesty’s pleasure to lunch on the way. The King cordially replied that it was. There- upon a telegram was sent to the proper station. “Prepare lunch for the King of the Sandwich Islands.’ On ar- riving at the station the King, his suite and the officials were formally taken into a room, the doors of which were guarded by soldiers, and several large piles of sand- wiches were presented to the King. The chief official at once stormed about it, and inquired what was meant by _ offering such a lunch. The keeper of the station was EComicbooks CO Pa, . tt me Va - Nes ' ' ~ 4