The choir then sang, “Cry out O Isles with Joy!”
Cannons on land and at sea fired a salute after which the Royal Hawaiian Band played a spirited Coronation March.
Then the general festivities started and Sir Robert thought that King Kalakaua certainly lived up to his reputation as a ‘Merry Monarch’.
The whole populace was dressed in their best and Honolulu seemed to be turned into a funfair of beautiful girls dancing, every kind of sideshow and sport taking place as well as the beach being crowded with surf- bathers.
The gaiety of it was so irresistible that the Earl, who had been treated as a Royal personage, kept thinking of how much Lydia would have enjoyed it.
He had a special place in the Pavilion, to which he had been escorted by the Lord Chamberlain and until he was seated ever
