n parents, it was with
perhaps more of interest, yet always with the demeanor I would have
shown to any strangers who noticed me.

"My own father and mother had other children, ten in all, the most of
them being adopted into other chiefs' families; and although I knew that
these were my own brothers and sisters, yet we met throughout my
younger life as though we had not known our common parentage.

"This was, and indeed is, in accordance with Hawaiian customs. It is not
easy to explain its origin to those alien to our national life, but it
seems perfectly natural to us.

"As intelligible a reason as can be given is that this alliance by
adoption cemented the ties of friendship between the chiefs. It spread
to the common people, and it has doubtless fostered a community of
interest and harmony."

It is odd to think of a princess, even of an Hawaiian princess, as being
educated, like other girls, in a school. But the school she attended was
for those pupils only who had some claim on the succession to the
throne.

Near-by, however, there was another school, where some of the children
of American residents were educated. Among these was John O. Dominis,
the son of a sea-captain of Italian descent, and whose mother was a
Boston woman.

Young Dominis made the acquaintance of the future Queen by climbing over
the wall and talking to the pupils of the Royal School, as it was
called.

A number of years later, in 1862, Liliuokalani became his wife.

This long name, by the way, was not given her until 1877, when the heir
to the throne died, and she became the next in succession to the
reigning King Kalakaua.

This King may be said to have helped to cause the revolution that made
Hawaii a republic. In 1887 he was persuaded by the white residents,
largely Americans or the sons of Americans, to give the country a new
constitution that took away a great deal of his power.

"It may be asked," the Queen writes, "Why did the King give them his
signature? I answer without hesitation, because he had discovered
traitors among his most trusted friends, and knew not in whom he could
trust; and because he had every assurance, short of actual
demonstration, that the conspirators were ripe for revolution, and had
taken measures to have him assassinated if he refused.

"His movements of late had been watched, and his steps dogged, as though
he had been a fugitive from justice. Whenever he attempted to go out in
the evening, either