[Kavikeavuli]. Brother of the preceding; born 1814; came to the throne in 1833, at the age of nineteen. Though educated by the American missionaries, he was wild and dissipated in his youth, but in 1840 he granted his people a written constitution and a code of laws, and made considerable progress in educating and civilizing his subjects; in 1848 granted land in fee simple to nearly all common people, so that each head of a family was a landholder. In 1842 and 1843 the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom was acknowledged by the United States and by the French and English governments. The king died childless, at Honolulu, when forty years of age on the 15th of December 1854.
