CHAPTEE lY. 



M A U N A L O A. 

 1840. 



In the Vincennes we were all ready at an early hour on the 3d 

 of December, excepting the pilot, Adams, who was not to be found. 

 He finally came on board, when, from his actions, I concluded that 

 he was intoxicated, and told him so ; this it seems he took in high 

 dudgeon. After I had gone on shore to transact some business, he 

 became very noisy and abusive to the first-lieutenant, who very pro- 

 perly told him to leave the ship. Finding he was not to be depended 

 upon, I determined to take the ship to sea myself, and for this purpose 

 stationed boats to act as buoys on the narrowest part of the bar. 

 Shortly after this was done, a fresh breeze sprung vip, we cast off, 

 and in a few minutes were safely outside. 



I was led, by this circumstance, to lay a complaint before the king 

 against the employment of a drunken pilot, and was in hopes that 

 Adams would, in consequence, have been dismissed, and a competent 

 person appointed in his stead. But through misrepresentations 

 made to the king, no new appointment was made. Mr. Reynolds 

 acts in old Adams's place when he is drunk, and the result, as I have 

 been credibly informed, is, that more than one half of the ships, going 

 in or coming out, get on shore. Some instances of the sort occurred 

 during my stay, among which was the case of the ship Morea. I 

 urged the dismissal of Adams, on the ground that if he were not 

 removed, the price of insurance of vessels bound to the port of 

 Honolulu would be affected, and that, besides, the interest of the 

 owners would suffer by their detention from his inability to take 

 the vessels to sea. The correspondence that passed on this subject 

 will be found in Appendix IX. 



