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diction. At Monterey, the English commander again met and 

 conferred with the Spanish commissioner Quadra; and it was 

 agreed between them, that Lieutenant Broughton should proceed 

 to Europe, across Mexico, with further communications, for their 

 respective courts, on the subject of the arrangement of the ques- 

 tions at issue. These affairs having been concluded, the Daedalus 

 was sent to New South Wales ; and Vancouver proceeded, with 

 the Discovery and Chatham, the latter under Lieutenant Puget, to 

 the Sandwich Islands, where they arrived in the middle of Feb- 

 ruary, 1793. 



At Owyhee, the English ships were visited by Tamahamaha, 

 who was, by this time, acknowledged as king of the island 

 by all the other chiefs except Tamaahmoto, the murderer of the 

 crew of the Fair American. Vancouver immediately recognized 

 the authority of Tamahamaha, to which he endeavored, but in vain, 

 to induce Tamaahmoto to submit ; he then sailed to Mowee, where 

 he succeeded in negotiating a peace between Titeree, king of that 

 island, and the sovereign of Owyhee, and thence to Woahoo, where 

 he superintended the trial and execution of three natives, who 

 had been delivered up to him as the murderers of Hergest and 

 Gooch, the officers of the Daedalus. The particulars of these 

 judicial proceedings are detailed with precision by Vancouver, who 

 seems to have been perfectly content with their regularity and 

 correctness ; nevertheless, when Broughton visited the island, in 

 1796, he was assured, as he says, " that the men who were exe- 

 cuted alongside of the Discovery had not committed the murders, 

 but were unfortunate beings whom the chief selected to satisfy 

 Captain Vancouver." * This appears to be certain from subsequent 

 accounts ; and it seems to be somewhat strange, that Vancouver 

 should not have suspected it to have been the case, at the time of 

 the trial. 



Having performed these acts of diplomacy and justice in the 

 Sandwich Islands, Vancouver proceeded to the American coasts ; 

 and, after examining the portion near Cape Mendocino, including 

 the place called Port Trinidad by the Spaniards, in 1775, so as to 

 connect his surveys north and south of that portion, he sailed to 

 Nootka, where he arrived on the 20th of May, 1793. The remain- 

 der of the warm season was passed by the British navigators in 

 making a minute and laborious examination of the shores of the 



* Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific, from 1793 to 1797, by Captain Robert 

 Broughton, p. 42. 



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