With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825 : being extracts from the ms. diary of James Macrae

Author:

Macrae, James, Wilson, William Frederick

Title:

With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825 : being extracts from the ms. diary of James Macrae

Year:

1972

Pages:

87 p.

Subject:

Byron, George Anson Byron, Baron, 1789-1868 Blonde (Ship) Hawaii description and travel

Summary:

King Liholiho (Kamehameha II.) and his queen, Kamamalu, died in London while on a visit to see their "great and good friend" George IV. In order to show its respect for the royal pair who had travelled so far and who had come to such an untimely end, the British government sent their remains back to Honolulu in the Blonde frigate, commanded by George Anson, seventh Lord Byron, who happened to be first cousin to the poet and successor to his title, and who was also a grandson of Admiral Byron of the Dolphin, one of the British explorers in the Pacific previous to Captain Cook.

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Collection:

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