2 40 THE CORAL LANDS OF THE PACIFIC. 



Custom House, and treated the sheriff with distinguished con- 

 sideration, invited him to dinner, and requested him to pilot 

 the vessel to Lahaina. Mr. Treadway blandly consented; 

 the brig was got under way, but when clear of the land, the 

 captain, dropping his suavity, informed him that his destina- 

 tion was New Caledonia, and that he could have a passage 

 there for a consideration, or he could go ashore in his boat 

 which was alongside. The sheriff had no alternative ; and 

 he was compelled to leave, and witness his late prisoner 

 triumphantly shaping his course for the setting sun. 



The next mail from the coast brought the necessary papers 

 to the United States Consul, authorising him to arrest Captain 

 Hayes, and seize the brig. It appears that he had landed in 

 San Francisco with a capital of fifty dollars, which he had 

 borrowed when in Honolulu of the Eev. Dr. Damon. With 

 this money for a basis of credit he bought the brig, fitted her 

 for sea, shipped a crew, and set sail, paying for nothing but 

 his water. This vessel was sunk off Wallace's Island, where 

 part of the crew landed by means of a raft, while Hayes with 

 his passengers made their way in the boat to the Navigators' 

 Islands. 



He then disappeared for some time, but finally was heard of 

 at Batavia in charge of a barque chartered for Europe with a load 

 of coffee. The Dutch East India Company, however, becoming 

 acquainted with some of his past history, was glad to pay him 

 the charter-money and get the coffee ashore again. 



His next voyage was from Hong Kong to Melbourne, with a 

 load of Chinese passengers. After being out for some time, 

 he was informed by a ship which he spoke that he would have 

 to pay fifty dollars per head on the Chinamen before he could 

 land them. He kept on the even tenour of his way, however, 

 until he arrived off Melbourne, when he choked both his 



