88 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



finished his vessel, which tliey intended to make 

 use of to return home, they took advantage, when 

 the party was dispersed and unarmed, to fall upon 

 them ; the mate and one white were killed : war 

 raged. 



It was, in the mean time, made known in Gua- 

 hon, that there w^ere strangers in Saypan and 

 Tinian ; the Governor, D. Alexandro Parreiio, 

 sent thither, and it was in the course of these 

 bloody combats, that, in June, 1810, Johnson, with 

 four whites, two negroes, the seven Sandwich 

 islanders, and the fifteen women, were brought to 

 Guahon, where he himself still remains. 



In JVIay, 1815, by command of the captain- 

 general of the Philippines, D. Gose Gardoque, a 

 settlement on Agrigan was broken up, and nearly 

 forty men, of whom one was an American, three 

 Englishmen, and the rest Sandwich islanders, 

 brought to Guahon. 



It is well known, from authentic information, 

 that there is already a new settlement on Agri- 

 gan. In pursuance of the present order of the 

 captain-general, no obstacle is to be thrown in the 

 way of the settlement ; the settlers are only to ac- 

 knowledge the supremacy of Spain ; and a Spaniard 

 is to be sent as chief magistrate. Nobody has, 

 however, yet been sent. 



Guahon calls to mind the name of the Governor, 

 D. Thomas, which is known in Europe. 



In tlie Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud he 



