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spent in examining them, he took his course for Owyhee, where he 

 arrived on the 20th of May. 



At Owyhee, the Hope was visited by Tamahamaha, whose power 

 was then rapidly increasing, as well as by his rival Tianna ; and both 

 these chiefs were earnest in their solicitations that Ingraham should 

 go on shore and visit their towns. The American captain, however, 

 feeling some distrust, did not think it prudent to leave his vessel ; and, 

 after obtaining some provisions and water, he sailed to the adjacent 

 Island of Mowee, where he received from two white men, who 

 escaped to the Hope, the news of the capture of the schooner Fair 

 American, and the murder of her crew at Owyhee, in February of 

 the preceding year. He then had reason to congratulate himself at 

 having resisted the invitations of Tamahamaha and Tianna, as he 

 had no doubt that he and his vessel and crew would otherwise have 

 been sacrificed to their hatred or cupidity. At Mowee, on the 

 26th, the brig was honored by the presence of Titeree, or Kahikili, 

 the king, and Taio, a principal chief; and Ingraham obtained from 

 them the liberation of an American seaman, who had been, for 

 some time, detained as prisoner in the island. On the following 

 day, at Woahoo, the natives surrounded the vessel in their canoes, 

 to the number of many thousands, evidently with the intention of 

 taking her ; and it became necessary to fire several muskets upon 

 them before she could be freed from the danger. 



On the 1st of June, Ingraham left the Sandwich Islands, and on 

 the 29th of the same month he dropped anchor in a harbor on the 

 south-east side of Queen Charlotte's, or Washington's, Island, to 

 which he gave the name of Magee's Sound, in honor of one of the 

 owners of his vessel. On the coasts of this island, and of the other 

 islands, and the continent adjacent on the north and east, he spent 

 the summer in trading, and collecting information as to the geog- 

 raphy and natural history, and the languages, manners, and customs, 

 of the inhabitants, on all which subjects his journal contains 

 minute and interesting details ; and at the end of the season he 

 took his departure for China, where he arrived on the 1st of De- 

 cember, 1791. 



At Macao, Ingraham found the French ship Solide, under 

 Captain Marchand, whose visit to the north-west coast of Amer- 

 ica, in the preceding summer, has been already mentioned ; and he 

 received much kindness, which he acknowledges by grateful expres- 

 sions in his journal, from Roblet, the surgeon, and Chanal, the first 



