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hastened by dissipation. He was succeeded by hisbrother Lot, Kamehameha V .

This prince contrived to have himself proclaimedking without swearing to the constitution of the govern-ment, and in an irregular way called a convention tomake a new constitution. Finding that he could notcontrol this convention he prorogued it, and taking acue from the words with which Kamehameha III . hadestablished the previous constitution,‘I give this con-stitution to my people,” proclaimed a constitution ofhis own making without submitting it to the suffragesof the people. The chief change he made from theformer constitution was in requiring that the nobles andrepresentatives, who had formerly sat separately, shouldsit and vote together in one chamber, so as to be morepowerfully controlled by himself and his cabinet. Hethen compelled the legislature to enact a law for licens-ing kakhunas as doctors and introduced Aahunas with thelicentious Aula dancers into his palace, thereby legalizingthe essential elements of heathenism: its loathsome sen-suality, its terrorizing sorcery, and its worship of demonsand even of idols. This was like the act of‘‘Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.” After thissorcery became a powerful instrument in the hands ofthe monarchs for carrying elections. This king died onDecember 11, 1872, at the age of forty-nine years, andwith him ended the line of the Kamehamehas.

The legislature was now called to elect a king, andmade choice of William Lunalilo, a grandson of thechief who killed Capt. Cook and the highest in rank of