1827. 



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CHAP, bearing his flag to Canton ; but, owing to the forms 

 _>___^ and impositions practised in China, and other circum- 

 Jan. stances which he could not control, the speculation 

 failed, and this advantageous trade has since been car- 

 ried on by the Americans. 



In all these plans for the benefit of his country, for 

 the introduction of civilization among his subjects, and 

 for the establishment of his assumed authority, Tame- 

 hameha was greatly indebted to the advice and assist- 

 ance of two respectable English seamen, Young and 

 Davis, whom he persuaded to remain in the islands. 

 Their services were not unrequited by the great chief, 

 whose generous disposition and intimate knowledge 

 of human nature induced him to bestow upon them 

 both rank and fortune, by raising them to the station 

 of chiefs, and giving them estates. They in turn 

 proved grateful to their benefactor, and conducted 

 themselves so properly that every visitor to the islands 

 has spoken of them in the highest terms. Davis died 

 in 1108, and was buried at Woahoo, where the place 

 of his interment is marked by a humble tombstone : 

 Young still survives, at the advanced age of eighty- 

 two. Besides these advisers, Tamehameha had a faith- 

 ful and wise counsellor in Krymakoo, afterwards bet- 

 ter known by the appellation of Billy Pitt. 



Tamehameha having seen his country emerge from 

 barbarism under his well-directed efforts, and having 

 conferred upon it other important benefits, died in 

 May 1819, at the age of sixty-three. His biographer 

 will do him injustice if he does not rank him, how- 

 ever limited his sphere, and limited his means, among 

 those great men who, like our Alfred, and Peter the 

 Great of Russia, have rescued their countries from 

 barbarism, and who are justly esteemed the benefac- 



