Dec. 

 1825. 



PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT. 89 



Young says, March 12, 1794, "Going over to c **ap 

 borrow a rake, to rake the dust off my ground, I saw 

 Jenny having a skull in her hand : I asked her 

 whose it was ? and was told it was Jack Williams's. 

 I desired it might be buried : the women who were 

 with Jenny gave me for answer, it should not. I 

 said it should ; and demanded it accordingly. I was 

 asked the reason why I, in particular, should insist 

 on such a thing, when the rest of the white men did 

 not ? I said, if they gave them leave to keep the 

 skulls above ground, I did not. Accordingly when 

 I saw M'Coy, Smith, and Mat. Quintal, I acquainted 

 them with it, and said, I thought that if the girls 

 did not agree to give up the heads of the five white 

 men in a peaceable manner, they ought to be taken 

 by force, and buried." About this time the women 

 appear to have been much dissatisfied ; and Young's 

 journal declares that, " since the massacre, it has 

 been the desire of the greater part of them to get 

 some conveyance, to enable them to leave the island." 

 This feeling continued, and on the 14th April, 1794, 

 was so strongly urged, that the men began to build 

 them a boat ; but wanting planks and nails, Jenny, 

 who now resides at Otaheite, in her zeal tore up the 

 boards of her house, and endeavoured, though with- 

 out success, to persuade some others to follow her 

 example. 



On the 13th August following, the vessel was 

 finished, and on the 15th she was launched : but, as 

 Young says, " according to expectation she upset," 

 and it was most fortunate for them that she did so ; 

 for had they launched out upon the ocean, where 

 could they have gone ? or what could a few igno- 

 rant women have done by themselves, drifting upon 



