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A Royal Girdle About The Earth: King Kalakaua’s Tour Around The Spencerian World by Glen Grant
CHAPTER I
King Kalakaua Plans a Tour — The First Sovereign to Put a Girdle Around the World — Selects His Companions — His Valet — Proposes to Travel Incognito — Scope of His Tour — Delay in Publication of This Memoir — The King Addresses His Subjects — Ceremonies Attending the Departure — The King’s Character — His Minister and Chamberlain — Kalakaua’s Knowledge of Royal Etiquette — His Unfortunate Predecessors — Theoretical and Practical Astronomy
CHAPTER II
Arrival in San Francisco — Hoisting the Royal Standard — The King is generously Entertained — Visits the Legislature — “The Colossus of the Pacific” — A Chinese Banquet — The King, Elated, Requires Minister to Wear Diplomatic Uniform — The Valet Gets Drunk
CHAPTER III
Departure for Japan — Logs on the Ocean — Washington’s Birthday— Losing a Day — Slapping a King in the Face — Attempts to Instruct the King in Political Science — The Conflict of Races in Hawaii — Failure of Educational Efforts
CHAPTER IV
The Bay of Yedo — Fusyama — Saluted by Foreign Warships — The King Becomes the Guest of the Japanese Emperor — Lands to the Music of His Own National Anthem — The Secret of Our Reception — Lessens in Etiquette — Japanese and New England Bells
CHAPTER V
Visit to the Emperor at Tokio — Reception at the Palace — The Empress — A Lady in Waiting — Comparison of the Emperor and the King — Lodged in the Palace of the Enriokwan — Robert the Valet Falls Again — The Royal Feather Cloak — The Emperor Returns the King’s Visit — Dinners, Luncheons, and Receptions — An Imperial Prince Always Present with the King — Reflections
CHAPTER VI
The Shrines of Shiba — Curious Worship — The King’s Aphorism — The Japanese Press Discusses the King — Curiosity about His White Attendants — Count Inouye, Minister of Foreign Affairs — Invitation to Prolong the Royal Visit — An Important Diplomatic Event — Proposed Abrogation of an Unjust Treaty between Japan and Hawaii — Delight of the Emperor and HisGovernment — Drafting a New Treaty — The Great European Powers Disturbed Thereby
CHAPTER VII
Entertainments in Our Palace — The King Receives the Representatives of Foreign Nations — Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s Japanese Descendants — The King Carefully Guarded — The Position of the Hawaiian Kingdom in the Pacific — Its Growth — The Japanese Character — The Sudden Rise of the People and Their Reformations — Review of Japanese Troops — An Earthquake — The Skeleton in Our Military Closet — The Hawaiian Army and Navy — A Japanese Drama — The King Presents a Drop-Curtain to the Theatre — The Hawaiian Minister Visits Count Inouye — His Residence — Strange Adventures of Two Japanese Statesmen
CHAPTER VIII
The King Proposes a Matrimonial Alliance Between the Royal Families of Japan and Hawaii — The Plan Fails — The King Visits the Christian Church in Yokohama — Japanese Views Regarding Christian Missions — Their Political Danger
CHAPTER IX
Lunch with the Imperial Princes — Japanese Women — Hawaiian Use of English — Dinner in Japanese Style at the Noblemen’s Club — Japanese Costumes — The Geisha Girls and the Musicians — Visits to the Naval Academy, the Military Barracks,Museums, and Factories — Dinner with the Emperor — Decoration of the King and His Suite — A Like Compliment Paid to the Emperor — Telegram Announcing Assassination of the Tsar of Russia Suppressed — The Grand Banquet — Reception by the Empress — The Assassination of the Tsar Announced, and the King
Leaves — A Great Ball Postponed — The Court in Mourning — The Emperor Dines with the King in the Enriokwan, and Takes Leave of Him — Presents from the Emperor
CHAPTER X
Departure for Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki — The Emperor Sends Imperial Commissioners with His Guest — Japanese Evolution — Kobe, and the Old Capital of Kioto — Mistakes About the King’s Identity — Visit to Osaka — Attempt to Dine Incognito at Japanese Inn — The Disguise Penetrated — Visit to an Old Missionary in Kobe — The Inland Sea — Salutes — The King’s Reflections — Favours Buddhism — At Nagasaki — Japanese Navigation — Promiscuous Bathing — Imperial Commissioners Leave at the Boundary of the Empire — Chinese and Japanese Morality — The Steamer Coaled by Women and Children
CHAPTER XI
The Yellow Sea — The King Wishes to See the Emperor of China — Decided to be Impracticable — Shanghai — Received by the Taotai — An American Negro in China — A Large Steamer Placed at the King’s Service — The Boy and the “CannibalKing” — Departure for Tientsin — Danger from Pirates — The Peiho River and the Taku Forts — “Blood is Thicker than Water” — Received at Tientsin by the Taotai and Viceroy Li Hung Chang’s Secretary — Difficulties About Visiting Pekin — The King only a Foreign Devil — Calling on the Viceroy — Li Asks Questions and Smokes — The Viceroy Returns the King’s Call and Asks More Questions — His Opinion About the Japanese — People Gather to See the “Black Foreign Devil” — Dinner with the Viceroy — The Viceroy’s Son — Chinese Democracy — Presents from the Viceroy
CHAPTER XII
Return to Shanghai — Cordial Receptions — Chinese After-Dinner Customs — Sail for Hongkong — Chinese Super stitions — The Missionary Misunderstands Them
CHAPTER XIII
At Hongkong — The King Becomes Queen Victoria’s Guest at Government House — Conversations with the Governor — Saluted by Forts and Warships — Official Announcement in English and Chinese — A Tramp Steamer Direct to Siam — Colonel Mosby, American Consul — Banquets and Other Entertainments — Captain Cook’s Indiscretion — Reception to Chinese Merchants — Importance of Hongkong — British Rule — The King’s Nap at the Banquet — A Lady’s Strategy — Chinese Absorption of Christianity
CHAPTER XIV
We Sail on the “Killarney” for Siam — The Irish Captain and the German Valet — Cochin-China — The Captain Disturbs the King with Stories of Piracy — Enter Gulf of Siam — Received at Mouth of Menan River by Siamese Officials — Reach Bangkok in the Royal Yacht — The Royal Barge — Our Reception — Siamese Attendants — “The Wine of the Coral Reef.”
CHAPTER XV
Pagodas — A Floating City and an Amphibious Population — Darwin Mistaken — Visit to the King of Siam — The King’s Conversation — Cats Disturb the Reception — Call on Second King, and on Uncle of Siamese King — Dinner with the Minister of Foreign Affairs — Drowning of a Queen and Child — Sacredness of the Royal Person — A Costly Cremation — The Royal Chapel — Visits from the Siamese King, the Second King, Princes, and Consular Corps — The Royal Elephants — A Play in a Court Theatre — Siamese Dancers Sing a Missionary Hymn — Dinner with the Siamese King — Conferring of Decorations — The Durien — Kings Say Good-Bye — Buddhist Rites to Protect Steamer — The Chinese in Siam — Siamese Statesmen Do Not Understand Christendom — Presents of Fruit
CHAPTER XVI
Arrival at Singapore — The King Tired of Royal Etiquette — Visits and Receives the Governor — Drive Over the Island — Importanceof the Place — A Colossal Missionary Station — The King and the Tiger — A State Banquet — Effect of the “Climate” on Englishmen in the Tropics — Visit to the Maharajah of Johore — His Grand Palace — The Sword of State and the Great Umbrella — The Valet and the Feathered Cloak — Tiffin with the Maharajah — The Sovereigns Discover Each Other’s “Strawberry-Marks” — A State Banquet — Dreams of Residence in Marble Halls — Moonlight and Native Music — A Morning Scene — Farewell to Singapore — More Trouble for the Valet — Loss of the Feather Cloak — Embarkation for Calcutta
CHAPTER XVII
Brief Visit to Malacca — Reception at Penang by the Lieutenant-Governor — A Rich Chinaman’s House — A Nautch Dancer’s Performance — Hindu Caste — Maulmain — Elephants in the Lumber Yards — Animal Intelligence — A Burmese Wedding — Rangoon — Buddhist Pagodas — Women’s Emancipation in Burmah — The Queen’s Birthday in the East — The British Power Everywhere — A Mohammedan at His Prayers — Entering the Hooghly — “Ganga! Ganga!”
CHAPTER XVIII
Reception at Calcutta — The English Civil Service — The Secret of Britain’s Power in India — The American Negro Problem Compared with Race Problems in the East — The Reign ofthe “Plug” Hat — An Ex-King of Oude — Circumventing the King — Babu Literature — Robert Again Seeks to Rise to His Hereditary Level — Leave Calcutta for Bombay — Cooling the Train — Desolation of the Country — Need of Irrigation — An Indian Statesman’s Views on European Civilisation — The King Creates a New Order of Merit — The Sacred City of Benares — Visit the Temples and the River — The Monkey Temple and the Imperturbable Goat — Priestly Logic — Reception at Bombay — Parsees — The Towers of Silence — Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy’s Magnificent Residence
CHAPTER XIX
From Bombay to Suez — Some Modest British Heroes — Anecdotes of the Candaar Campaign — The Valet’s Relations to the King Explained — Aden — No Trace of the Lost Lenore — Black Arab Boys with Red Hair — Diving for Coins; an Old Trick of the King and His Suite — Mount Sinai — An Englishman’s Comments on Its Possessors — Surprised by the Khedive’s Officers at Suez — The King Invited to Be the Khedive’s Guest — The Suez Canal — “Sandwiches” at Zigazag — Mohammedan Abstinence — Mussulman Comments on Christianity
CHAPTER XX
Cairo — General Stone — The Pyramids — In the Khedive’s Palace — Egyptian Donkeys — Drive through the Streets of Cairo — The Massacre of the Mamelukes — The Museum and Its Curator— Received at Alexandria by the Khedive — Palace “Number Three” — The Harem — Mohammedan Views of Woman’s Position — The King Returns the Khedive’s Visit — Jewelled Pipes and Coffee-Cups — The Khedive’s Views on Polygamy — Egypt Under the Lion’s Paw — The King’s Belief in His Divine Origin — Dinner with the Khedive — Political Unrest — Polygamy a Divine Institution — Leprosy — The Khedive’s Stables — Ball at the Palace of the Ras-el-Tin — Captain Cook’s Old Frigate, the “Resolution” — A Greek Beauty — Historic Ground: Alexander the Great, Julius C?sar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra — Departure for Italy — The Vice-Regal Barge
CHAPTER XXI
Comments of Egyptian Press — The King’s Masonic Rank — Voyage to Naples — A Comet — Catalonia — Volcanoes of Hawaii and Sicily — Divine Stoppage of Lava-Flows — An Italian Adventurer in Honolulu — He Reappears at Naples and Abducts the King — Pursuit and Recapture of His Majesty — Visit to the King and Queen of Italy — The Adventurer Dismissed — Italian Poems of Adulation to Strangers — Ex-Khedive Ismail Calls — Troubles with Hotel-Keepers Begin — News of Attack on President Garfield
CHAPTER XXII
Rome, Cardinal Jacobini — Interview with the Holy Father — Pleasant Conversation — Cardinal Howard — A PicturesqueScene — The King Prevented by His Suite from Visiting St. Petersburg — Leave for England via Paris — A Scheming Hollander — Ride through Paris and Leave for London — Violation of French Etiquette
CHAPTER XXIII
London, Claridge’s Hotel — Royal and Ministerial Callers — The Duke of Edinburgh’s Visit to Hawaii — The Prince of Wales Makes a Social “Lion” of the King — The Royal Family Takes the King up Without Reserve — The Queen’s Carriages at His Service — Patti at the Royal Italian Opera — An Old Schoolmate, General Armstrong — The Houses of Parliament — The “Plug” Hat the Symbol of British Power — Volunteer Review in Windsor Park — The Crown Prince of Germany — Novelty of Our Situation — Westminster Abbey — A Trip on the River with Lord Charles Beresford
CHAPTER XXIV
Luncheon at Earl Granville’s with Mr. Gladstone and Members of the Cabinet — Visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle — Her Majesty Inquires for Queen Emma — Luncheon at the Castle — Visit from the Crown Prince of Germany — Call at Marlborough House — The Prince and Princess of Wales — Lunch with the Prince at Lord Charles Beresford’s — American Women — Lord Beresford’s Escapade in Hawaii — The Prince of Wales’s Visit to the United States — Garden Party at Marlborough House— The Queen Present — Mr. Lowell, the American Minister — An Informal Gathering of Royalty and Its Friends — The King Approved of — Lambeth Palace and the Archbishop of Canterbury — Reception to Prince and Princess of Wales at Kensington Museum — Earl Spencer’s Mistake — A Royal Procession — Aristocratic Life a Bore
CHAPTER XXV
Ball at Hyde Park Barracks — Grand Decorations — The Prince of Wales, as Colonel of the Second Life Guards, Receives the Guests — Colonial Banquet at Guildhall — Builders of the British Empire — The Prince and King Make Speeches — The King Offends the Irish — The Consequences — Entertained by Lord Brassey at Normalhurst — Lunch with Prince of Wales at Sir Christopher Sykes’s — Dinner at Trinity House — General Grant’s Mistake — Places of Interest — Handsome Jewish Women — Dinner with Baroness Burdett-Coutts — The King Decorated — He Also Decorates the Queen and Prince of Wales — “Punch” and the King — Ball at Marlborough House — Lunch with the Duke and Duchess of Teck — The “Lion” Leaves England — The King and the British Government
CHAPTER XXVI
Belgium — Consular Offices — The Battlefield of Waterloo — Civilised and Pagan Warfare — Visits from and to King Leopold — Berlin — Visit to Prince William and Other Princes inPotsdam — Dines with Prince William — Military Reviews — The Skeleton Dances — The Royal Hawaiian Band — Dinner with the Red Prince — Krupp’s Gun Factory
CHAPTER XXVII
Vienna — The Royal Family Represented by Archduke Albrecht — Mr. Phelps, the American Minister, and Mr. Schuyler, the United States Consul-General — A Yale Jubilee — The King Reviews Austrian Troops — Proposed Guarantee of Hawaiian Independence — The King Enjoys Himself on the Prater — Reporters — Paris — No Reception by the French Government — Unravelling the Mystery — Our Bad Manners — Question of Declaring War Against France — Reconciliation — An Incident of the Commune — Minister St. Hilaire Calls — Requests for
Decorations — Count de Lesseps — The Ballet Girls at the Opera
CHAPTER XXVIII
At the Spanish Frontier — The Escurial — Reception at Madrid — Our Car Derailed by a Cow — Portugal — The Royal Car — Received by the King and Queen — The Little Skeleton Again — Mutual Decorations — Dom Fernando — Portuguese in Hawaii — Cintra — Pena — A Magnificent Outlook — Dinner with the Portuguese King — A Narrow Escape for Vasco da Gama as Told by His Descendant — A Bull-Fight — Good-Bye to Portugal — The Monarchs Embrace — Negotiating aTreaty — The King Starts for Home via Spain, France, England, Scotland, and the United States — The Valet’s Estimate of His Position
CHAPTER XXIX
New York, Philadelphia, and Washington — On the Cobble-stones of Democracy — The King Presented to President Arthur — Fortress Monroe and Hampton Normal School — The King Buys Horses in Kentucky — Banquet in San Francisco — Sailing for Home — Casting Up Accounts — What Wisdom Has His Majesty “Sucked” — He Agrees with Learned Men — Reception at Honolulu — The Girdle Around the Earth is Clasped
CHAPTER XXX
The End of the Monarchy — The King and His Divine Origin and Mission — Insists on Coronation — Ministers Resign — The King Resists Parliamentary Government — Confronted with the Bayonet and Yields — He Instigates Revolution, but Fails — Visits California and Dies — Liliuokalani His Successor — She Attempts to Make a New Constitution, and the Monarchy is Overthrown — Annexation to the United States — The Work of the Missionaries for Home via Spain, France, England, Scotland, and the United States — The Valet’s Estimate of His Position
CHAPTER XXIX
New York, Philadelphia, and Washington — On the Cobble-stones of Democracy — The King Presented to President Arthur — Fortress Monroe and Hampton Normal School — The King Buys Horses in Kentucky — Banquet in San Francisco — Sailing for Home — Casting Up Accounts — What Wisdom Has His Majesty “Sucked” — He Agrees with Learned Men — Reception at Honolulu — The Girdle Around the Earth is Clasped
CHAPTER XXX
The End of the Monarchy — The King and His Divine Origin and Mission — Insists on Coronation — Ministers Resign — The King Resists Parliamentary Government — Confronted with the Bayonet and Yields — He Instigates Revolution, but Fails — Visits California and Dies — Liliuokalani His Successor — She Attempts to Make a New Constitution, and the Monarchy is Overthrown — Annexation to the United States — The Work of the Missionaries
