Hawaii used to be an independent country before America decided to take it for free.
Sultan of johore visited Hawaii king
Both monarchs, who were fluent in English, conversed freely with one another and discovered common words in Malay and Hawai'ian.
According to Walter Gibson, the then foreign minister of Hawaii, the visit to Johor assured King Kalakaua that coloured people could survive the encroachment of the whites. In Gibson's own words:
"We are very glad that our Hawaiian king visited a Malay sovereign, the Maharajah of Johore: that His Majesty recognised striking evidences of kinship between Hawaiian and Malay: that His Majesty observed that these brown cognates of Johore were healthy, prolific and an increasing people, though living under the guidance and dominion of the European race; that His Majesty recognises that there is no natural law, or destiny, that the brown races shall pass away in the presence of the whites, as is alleged in Polynesia."