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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 fee] 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 management 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 former 

 habits, it was difficult to arouse or induce them to exert themselves. 

 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 dis- 

 posed 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, they 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 accidents, 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 swim- 

 ming, thus leaving the boat exposed in perilous situations. On the 

 whole, I was disappointed with them, and would prefer to go weak- 

 handed rather than a^ain resort to such aid, although I must do them 



