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CHAPTER LXVII.
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I found the national Legislature to consist of half a dozen white men and some thirty or forty natives. It was a dark assemblage. The nobles and Ministers (about a dozen of them altogether) occupied the extreme left of the hall, with David Kalakaua (the King’s Chamberlain) and Prince William at the head. The President of the Assembly, His Royal Highness M. Kekuanaoa, [Kekuanaoa is not of the blood royal. He derives1 his princely rank from his wife, who was a daughter of Kamehameha the Great. Under other monarchies2 the male line takes precedence of the female in tracing genealogies3, but here the opposite is the case—the female line takes precedence. Their reason for this is exceedingly sensible, and I recommend it to the aristocracy of Europe: They say it is easy to know who a man’s mother was, but, etc., etc.] and the Vice4 President (the latter a white man,) sat in the pulpit, if I may so term it. The President is the King’s father. He is an erect5, strongly built, massive featured, white-haired, tawny6 old gentleman of eighty years of age or thereabouts. He was simply but well dressed, in a blue cloth coat and white vest, and white pantaloons, without spot, dust or blemish7 upon them. He bears himself with a calm, stately dignity, and is a man of noble presence. He was a young man and a distinguished8 warrior9 under that terrific fighter, Kamehameha I., more than half a century ago. A knowledge of his career suggested some such thought as this: “This man, naked as the day he was born, and war-club and spear in hand, has charged at the head of a
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warrior
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slaughter
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missionary
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plebeian
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Christian
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royalty
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legislative
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barbarian
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superstition
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plausible
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cuffs
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missionaries
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interfered
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succor
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loyalty
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emancipation
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thrall
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dissect
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creed
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solitude
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persuasion
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ridicule
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distress
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appease
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deities
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mythology
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maidens
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| 处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球 | |
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intemperate
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proclivity
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grandeur
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bonnets
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countenance
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hymn
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dame
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fiery
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absurdity
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admiration
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swapping
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grotesque
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benediction
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majesty
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splendors
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