After very little sleep on the overnight coach train, we arrived at Vienna at seven on

the morning of July 3rd and took rooms at the Imperial

Hotel Imperial
- Frohmer's
where we had stayed on our way to Belgrade. That day was
spent in reading June mail
from home, official instructions, and answering letters.

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Mr. Schonberger called the next morning to escort us to the Arsenal. We were
received by Field Marshalvon Tiller, who conducted us through the works, a privilege
accorded to few.
During this tour the Baron very tactfully called my attention to a financial obligation
incurred by King Kalakaua on his visit to Vienna the previous year. The King had ordered
six field pieces at a cost of about four thousand dollars. When they arrived at Honolulu,
they were placed about the Palace grounds. $fter I arrived home in April of 1884, I
discovered that there was a considerable unpaid\balance and it became my duty to remind
my Sovereign that the payment of royal obligat\ons was taken more seriously in Europe
than it was in Hawaii.
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The field pieces purchased by Kalakaua in Vienna in 188l The photograph shows the Royal Cuard on review
February 189i. Col. Samuel Nowlein commanding.
Courtesy: Hawai'i State Archives.

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