Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 51, 16 November 1893 — One or more of the two Thousand [ARTICLE]
One or more of the two Thousand
We are to!d that there \sere 2000 men arouml last night under arms watching the loyalists who were iu bed, or playing poker, and the Philadelphia, but we doubted tbe correctness of the statement. A gentleman tells us now, that he last evening raet a very stout, very heavy, and very mueh armed governraent ollieial who was going ou duty. By a jndicious division of this walking arsenal into proper sized raen with a proper outtit of arms, our inforraant eame to the conclusiou that the figure 2000, all told might be reached. The blight-extinguisher, represented 53 k heroes.