522 APPENDIX. 



Our laws provide that the local governors shall have a voice in the 



appointment of pilots. Wherefore I am waiting the arrival of Governor 



Kekuanaoa of Oahu, when we shall consult together, and make a new 



appointment, either of a foreigner or of a native, as shall appear best. 



(Signed) Kamehameha III. 



Lower Lahaina, March 15th, 1841. 



The orders for Lieutenant Johnson will be found with those of Lieu- 

 tenant-Commandant Ringgold, in Appendix VII. 



XL 



U. S. Ship Vincennes, 

 Nisqually Harbour, May 13th, 1841. 



Sir,— 



You will proceed from this anchorage, and take up the survey of 

 Admiralty Inlet, below the Narrows, passing into the channel on the 

 east side of Vashon's Island ; thence north, examining and surveying 

 all islets, and the shores of both sides of the straits, particularly all 

 those bays, &c, that afford shelter for vessels, not only as harbours, but 

 for temporary anchorage. 



Off the north end of Vashon's Island you will be joined by the launch 

 and first cutter and two boats of this ship, under Lieutenant Case. 



If you should have reached this point before the boats, you will place 

 up a signal, to indicate that you have passed it, and to which they may 

 joiu their work of the channel on the west side of Vashon's Island. I 

 shall direct Lieutenant Case to place a similar mark, if he should reach 

 it before you, in order that neither party may be delayed. 



Lieutenant Case will be ordered to continue with you in the work 

 if you should meet there ; but if he should reach it before you, he will 

 be ordered to proceed at once to Hood's Canal ; and you will then con- 

 tinue the survey down the inlet to the northward. On reaching 

 Whidby's Island, you will pass into and survey Possession Sound to its 

 extreme end, and all its inlets, &c. 



If you cannot pass out of the Deception Passage, you will order a 

 party to pass out in boats, and to carry the survey to the southward, 

 along its western shore, whilst you sail back to its southern end, when 

 you will take up the survey and continue it until you meet your boat 

 party, connecting it with Wilson and Hudson Points, which form Port 

 Townsend. You will not, however, go in here, except for temporary 



