Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii (57 page)

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Authors: James L. Haley

15. A Voice Like Distant Thunder

16. Queen at Last

17. The Coup

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Population of remaining native Hawaiians (including mixed-race) were 58,765 in 1866, 51,531 in 1872, 47,508 in 1878, 44,232 in 1884, 40,662 in 1890. Kuykendall and Day,
Hawaii: A History
, 298. Kalakaua’s efforts to restore native culture had had its effects, one of which was that people felt more free to eschew
haole
doctors and return to native practitioners. The queen’s friend and Bernice Pauahi’s widower, Charles Reed Bishop, wrote her soon after her accession, “The decrease of the Hawaiians which the recent census shows is still going on, in the adults, at least—is caused mainly by two things: intemperance, and the influence of Kahunas. Is there no hope of winning the people to wiser and better habits? The children are better cared for and are doing better than in times past, but the adults and old people are behaving badly.” Kent,
Charles Reed Bishop
, 346.

18. The Inscrutable Mr. Blount

19. Countercoup and Annexation

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