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human nature Hayes entrusted Captain Pinkham with the 

 schooner, and he never saw her again. 



After the loss of another brig at Strong's Island, Hayes changed 

 his tactics, and actually succeeded in persuading the mission- 

 aries that he was converted from the error of his ways. How 

 he got possession of the schooner which took him thence to 

 Guam I do not know; but after his arrival there he was 

 captured while bathing, and it was generally believed that his 

 romantic career had come to an end, but he resumed the 

 religious role, this time as a Catholic, and bamboozled the 

 clergy of Manilla as effectually as he had the American 

 missionaries. 



The Spanish authorities had sufficient evidence to garotte 

 twenty men, but Bully Hayes was equal to the occasion ; and 

 whether aided or not by a mistaken interest of the clergy in 

 their new and most promising convert, he managed to escape, 

 and turned up at San Francisco, where he succeeded in stealing 

 a schooner called the Lotus (I know he paid twelve and a half 

 dollars for water, but for nothing else), and in this vessel he 

 was cruising when I was in the Pacific. 



Captain Hayes was a handsome man of above the middle 

 height, with a long brown beard always in perfect order. He 

 had a charming manner, dressed always in perfection of taste, 

 and could cut a confiding friend's throat or scuttle his ship 

 with a grace which, at any rate in the Pacific, was un- 

 equalled. 



Hayes honoured Fiji with an occasional visit, but got some- 

 what shy of Levuka after the group became annexed to Great 

 Britain. A friend of mine, who resides at Fiji's capital, told 

 me the following characteristic anecdote of him : The Captain 

 was in harbour with his schooner, and wanting a good supply 

 of stores for a long cruise, gave a heavy order to my friend. 



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