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and an unliappy quarrel, caused his valuable life to 

 be terminated among the powerful and warlike 

 Owhyeeans. They adored him as a god, and still 

 piously revere his memory. Trade followed the 

 traces of Cook to the north-west coast of America; 

 and the Sandwich islands, which afforded all kinds 

 of refreshments to the navigators sailing thither, 

 thus received the importance which their disco- 

 verer ascribed to them. With Vancouver we are 

 at liome with them. A great man, with whom, 

 while yet a youth, we were made acquainted by 

 Cook, seized the reins of power at Owhyee, and 

 strove for the sole government of the whole group. 

 Tamaahmaah assured himself of the protection of 

 Great Britain, by freely and voluntarily doing 

 homage to King George, in the hands of his friend 

 Vancouver. Later travellers, down to Lisanskoy,^ 

 who were informed by the Europeans settled on 

 the Sandwich islands, extend our knowledge of 

 them, and acquaint us with the sequel of the his- 

 tory. Our rapacious adventurers diligently pro- 

 mote war, to keep up the pricp of arms, which they 

 give in payment. Tamaahmaah accomphshed the 

 conquest of all the islands, and the king of Atooi, 

 (the group lying apart in the west), hastened to 

 submit voluntarily to him whom he could not resist. 

 He was, it is true, misled into rebellion, under the 

 standard of the Russian American Company, but 

 he immediately atoned for his fault, and did homage 

 anew to his sovereign, (I8I7). 



