B.M. ship Tenedos, which was promptly met by the landing of such a
force of sailors and marines as dispersed the rioters.
Seventy arrests were made, the foreign marines held possession of
the Courthouse, Palace, and Government offices, Kalakaua took the
oath of office in private; the Representatives, with bandaged heads,
and arms in slings, limped, and in some instances were supported, to
their desks, to be liberated from their duties by the king in
person, and in ten days the joint protectorate was withdrawn.
Those who know the natives best were taken by surprise, and are
compelled to recognise that a restive, half-sullen, half-defiant
spirit is abroad among them, and that the task of governing them may
not be the easy thing which it has been since the days of Kamehameha
the Great. Nor do the foreign residents, especially the Americans,
feel so safe as formerly, without the presence of a man-of-war in
the harbour, since the people of Oahu have so unexpectedly developed
one of the prominent arts of civilized democracy, cruel, reckless,
and unreasoning mobbing.
Of King Kalakaua, who began his reign under such unfortunate
auspices, little at present can be said. Island affairs have not
settled down into their old quietude, and party spirit, arising out
of the election, has not died out among the natives.
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