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| | Following The Equator by Mark Twain 2 |
 | | Liholiho could have qualified as a reformer, perhaps, but as a king he was a mistake. |
 | | When Liholiho succeeded his father he found himself possessed of an equipment of royal tools and safeguards which a wiser king would have known how to husband, and judiciously employ, and make profitable. |
 | | In Captain Cook's time (1778), the native population of the islands was estimated at 400,000; in 1836 at something short of 200,000, in 1866 at 50,000; it is to-day, per census, 25,000. |
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