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Abenooe Adamson answered Argonaute Atooi Kauai attack board the Hancock board the Hope bore breeze brought Captain Colonett Captain Croel Captain Douglas Captain Metcalf certificate chief China coast of America command detained double canoe Eleanora Eyappo Hiapo Fair American fowls friends guns Hamakua hogs hoisted immediately informed Ingraham inquired James Cox John Young JOSEPH INGRAHAM Kahoolawe Karakakooa Kealakekua killed King Koopah Kupaa Lady Washington Lanai land last voyage leagues Leeward likewise Macao mehameha mentioned Molokai Molokini Morai Heiau morning Mowee Maui musket natives night Nootka North Foreland o'clock Onehow Niihau Opye Opai Opye's Opai's Owhyhee Hawaii paddled Piliamu plantains remain on board Ridler sail sandalwood schooner seamen seemed sent single canoe swivells take a vessel taken Tiana Kaiana Tio Kaeo Tituree Kahekili Tommahommahaw Kamehameha took Toyahyah Kawaihae Toyahyah Kohala visited Wahoo Oahu Waikiki weigh my anchor wind windward Wymaeah Waimea Young and James
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Page 1 - ... with kindness and Christianity, to obtain a cargo of furs on the American coast, to proceed with the same to China to be exchanged for a cargo of tea and to return with the tea to Boston. An outward bound cargo was taken on consisting of such trinkets as were thought to appeal to the savage heart, beads, brass buttons, ear-rings, calico, tin mirrors, blankets, hunting knives, copper kettles, iron chisels, snuff, and tobacco. The crews were carefully chosen, and in addition to the usual complement...
Page 16 - ... themselves with everything they were in want of; but unhappily for himself and those under his command he seemed infatuated and turned a deaf ear to this advice. "One of the chiefs coming aft with a feathered cap presented it to Captain Metcalf, (ie, the young Metcalf, the captain of the Fair American), at the same time desired he might fit it on his head. In doing which, finding him off his guard, he (the chief) clasped him round and threw him overboard.
Page 17 - ... befell Captain Metcalf at these islands, for not long before this schooner was captured, his long boat was stolen from the stern of his vessel at the Island of Mowee (Maui). The man stationed in her, to watch her, being asleep, the natives towed the boat to shore, and murdered this poor fellow in cold blood, while on his knees in tears he was supplicating for mercy, and these unfeeling wretches often told with exulting pleasure how this unhappy man behaved before they took his life, saying the...
Page 1 - Orders were given Kendrick and Gray to avoid offense to any foreign power, to treat the natives with kindness and Christianity, to obtain a cargo of furs on the American coast, to proceed with the same to China to be exchanged for a cargo of tea and to return with the tea to Boston. An outward bound cargo was taken on consisting of such trinkets as were thought to appeal to the savage heart, beads, brass buttons, ear-rings, calico, tin mirrors, blankets, hunting knives, copper kettles...
Page 15 - ... records also the story of the capture of the Fair American, as follows: "A small schooner named the Fair American was taken by the natives of Owhyhee (Hawaii). This schooner was tender to the Eleanora, Captain Metcalf, of New York, and commanded by his son, whom the natives killed with 3 seamen. One they threw overboard, but after beating and bruising him in a most shocking manner, they took him into one of the canoes and lashed him in with his face downwards, where Ridler found him, and interceded...
Page 17 - ... gruesome incidents of the visit — the Olawalu massacre and the capture of the Fair American — are familiar to all readers of Vancouver's Voyage (1801 ed. vol. 3, pp. 228-234; vol. 5, p. 54 et seq.) ; but as Ingraham in his manuscript journal gives the first account of these sad events I quote: "It seemed this was not the only calamity which befell Captain Metcalf at these islands, for not long before this schooner was captured, his long boat was stolen from the stern of his vessel at the...
Page 15 - ... man's bones for sale, which they were by the account received from the natives themselves, 200 men fell, yet it seems that many innocent fell with the guilty, and the chief who murdered the man was on shore and escaped". Ingraham records also the story of the capture of the Fair American, as follows: "A small schooner named the Fair American was taken by the natives of Owhyhee (Hawaii). This schooner was tender to the Eleanora, Captain Metcalf, of New York, and commanded by his son, whom the...
Page 28 - ... vacant chair. On October 6 the island Owyhee (Hawaii) was seen at a distance of twenty leagues. Two days later at nightfall they met the brig Hancock, just from the Northwest Coast of America and like themselves bound for China. Ingraham waxes eloquent upon that perfect night. "It was calm," he says, "a delightful evening; the moon shone with uncommon splendour, casting a silvered gleam on the bosom of the deep; the highlands threw a dark shade which was gradually lightened into a blue tint as...
Page 17 - ... Ingraham in his manuscript journal gives the first account of these sad events I quote: "It seemed this was not the only calamity which befell Captain Metcalf at these islands, for not long before this schooner was captured, his long boat was stolen from the stern of his vessel at the Island of Mowee (Maui). The man stationed in her, to watch her, being asleep, the natives towed the boat to shore, and murdered this poor fellow in cold blood, while on his knees in tears he was supplicating for...
Page 1 - ... mounting ten guns, which had been built fourteen years before on Hobart's Landing, North River, was immediately purchased. But a smaller ship to cruise about inland waters and collect furs was also needed ; and for this purpose the partners bought the Lady Washington, a little sloop of ninety tons.