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Having got safely out of the harbour, we hove-to for the boats; 

 when they joined us they were hoisted up, and we made sail with a 

 fine fresh trade-wind. 



I had the pleasure of being accompanied by Mr. Brinsmade, our 

 worthy consul, and my friend Dr. G. P. Judd, both of whom volun- 

 teered to accompany me in the novel and arduous enterprise I was 

 about to undertake. The former hoped to improve his health, which 

 had suffered from long confinement in the warm zone of the islands, 

 by the invigorating mountain air ; the latter was desirous to share our 

 troubles and fatigues, and undertook to act as our physician, inter- 

 preter, adviser, and manager of the natives. To him the Expedition 

 is much indebted for his exertions and enthusiasm. Besides this, 

 I feel personally under great obligations, and take pleasure in 

 making my acknowledgments here for his hospitality, and the 

 kindness received from himself and family while at Honolulu, and 

 for the information I derived from him relative to the islands. 

 We had, also, with us as interpreters, several graduates of the 

 high-school at Lahaina, whom I thought necessary in the manage- 

 ment of the natives we were about to employ. 



Believing that we should be much more likely to obtain favourable 

 winds to the northward, I determined to pass between the islands of 

 Molokai and Oahu. 



We now began to find that our new men, the Kanakas, required 

 much attention ; many of them were sea-sick, and, true to their for- 

 mer habits, it was difficult to arouse or induce them to exert them- 

 selves. They began to recover in a few days; but though well- 

 disposed men, they are unfitted for service in men-of-war. They 

 do very well when they are working in small parties, but are 

 inclined to be idle, and disposed to let others do all the work. It 

 is, also, extremely difficult to infuse into them a proper degree of 

 attention to personal cleanliness. To judge of those we had on board 

 the Vincennes, thej^ are not apt at learning either the language or the 

 ideas necessary for sailors. The greater portion of them were found 

 very timid, and they did not like to venture aloft. The only place in 

 which we found them useful was in boats, for they were more in their 

 element while in the water than out of it. One or two serious acci- 

 dents, however, were near occurring to the officers in boats, while 

 passing through the reefs, from the desire of the Kanakas to avoid 

 danger by jumping overboard, and taking to swimming, thus leaving 

 the boat exposed in perilous situations. On the whole, I was disap- 



