After the reception was over we wrote our names on the court register, and then, after being shown through the palace, were escorted back to the hotel by the band.
King Kalakuau was by no means a bad-looking fellow, being tall and somewhat portly, with the usual dark complexion, dark eyes and white teeth, which were plainly visible when he smiled, that distinguished all of the Kanaka race.

Somehow, and for no apparent reason, there came to my mind as I looked at him the lines of that old song: "Hokey, pokey, winky wum, How do you like your murphys done?
Sometimes hot and sometimes cold, King of the Cannibal Islands," and I tried hard to fancy what might have happened had we landed on those same islands several centuries before.
Sunday amusements of all kinds being prohibited by an old Hawaiian law, a relic of the old missionary days, made an exhibition by the members of the two teams an impossibility, although the members of the Reception Committee, backed by many of the native Islanders, petitioned that we should do so, offering to bear any and all of the expenses incurred by us should any trouble be forthcoming.

Couriers bearing petitions to the same effect were also sent around the city, and soon over a thousand names to these had been obtained.

The risk was too great a one to be taken, however, as in case anything did happen we were almost certain to miss our boat and be detained in Honolulu for a longer period of time than we could afford to spend there.

Our refusal to defy the law and play ball anyhow was a great disappointment both to the American contingent and to the natives, they having been looking forward to the game for weeks with most pleasant anticipations.