^58 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



to Don Luis de Torres the kind and hospitable 

 reception he had met with from the natives. In 

 1812 he made the same voyage in another ship. 

 On his return, lie told Don Luis how hostilely he 

 had been received this time, and that he had lost 

 a mate and four sailors. The natives told him, 

 that in the course of time they had become ac- 

 quainted with the whites, and had resolved to 

 show no mercy to them. (Respecting the Fidji 

 islands, see Mariner's Tonga islands.) 



In the burying-place of the Europeans, near 

 Hana-rura, we read this simple monument on Mr, 

 Davis. 



The remains 



of 



M. Isaac Davis, 



who died at this 



Island, April 1810, 



aged 52 years. 



When we last sailed from Hana-rura, we left 

 Mr. Young sinking under the infirmities of old 

 age. Both friends, whose united names have for a 

 long time been distinguished in the history of these 

 islands, will repose together. The children of 

 Mr. Yoimg, though heirs to his estates, will be lost 

 in obscurity among the people, as they were not 

 born of a noble mother. 



The islands which Mr. Johnstone discovered in 

 1807, on board the frigate Cornwallis, in the 

 W.S.W. of the Sandwich islands, and which we 

 looked for in the spring of 1817, are, like the 



