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roadstead; the best anchorage is abreast of the King's Flag 

 Staff. 



March loth. This afternoon Mr. May and his boat's crew 

 returned in canoes paddled by natives, the boat having 

 gone to pieces at sea the same day he left the ship. It 

 "was very fortunate that Mr. Budd was near at hand with 

 his boat. Seeing their situation, he immediately pulled up 

 to them, and conveyed the crew ashore. He then returned 

 to the wreck for the instruments and Mr. May, who he 

 found had drifted, in the meantime, two or three miles out 

 to sea. 



After landing, they walked some twenty miles before they 

 reached the settlement, where they were hospitably entertained 

 by the chief, and furnished with canoes to bring them back to 

 the ship. Mr. May might have gone ashore with the men, 

 but he generously declined to leave the wreck until the crew 

 were taken off first. 



In the evening, Mr. Budd arrived with the instruments ; he 

 stated that bad weather had prevented him from carrying out 

 the instructions, in regard to the survey intrusted to his 

 charge. 



March 15th. At an early hour this morning, Mr. Budd 

 and Mr. Sanford left with two boats to join the king's 

 schooner, the use of which his Majesty had offered to 

 Captain Wilkes until the shoal off Kaloolawe could be sur- 

 veyed. 



The following day we ascertained by triangulation, the 

 elevation of the highest peak on Maui. It is six thousand 

 three hundred feet above the level of the ocean. At a height 

 of two thousand feet from the base of this mountain, both the 

 climate and soil are said to be well adapted to the growth of 

 wheat and Irish potatoes. 



