“… no one could have been nearer to instant death …”

“… no one could have been nearer to instant death …” Then-Princess Liliʻuokalani was on a tour around Oʻahu on October 6, 1881. “I was accompanied by my sister, the Princess Likelike, who had with her the little child-princess Kaʻiulani, and that infant's governess, Miss Barnes; Mr. JH Boyd was of the number of our attendants.” “We were descending the steep side of a hill, (in some unaccountable manner the reins of one of the horses became entangled in the bit of another) and the result was that the driver had no longer control of the animals.” “(T)he vehicle was overturned, falling upon the Princess who had been previously thrown out and furthermore, the royal lady was precipitated down a steep embankment a distance of about 50 yards.” “Certainly no one could have been nearer to instant death.”

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