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returned to Honolulu on 14 September 1846. (The Salem Observer, 16 January 
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Captain John Paty Visited the Leewards on the schooner Manuokawai in 
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the summer of 1857* annexing the islands to the Hawaiian Kingdom. He landed 
on Lisianski on 11 May and reported that '"the surface wad covered with coarse 
grass;” Paty found some wreckage with the name Holder Borden carved on it, 
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and the crew obtained fresh water by digging a hole five feet deep in the 
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center of the former lagoon. Birds, fish, seals and turtles were plentiful. 
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l His account includes directions for approaching and anchoring at the island. 
( The Polynesian , 6 June 1857)- 
Captain N. C. Brooks cruised the Leewards for several months in 1859 
in the Hawaiian bark Gambia. He visited Lisianski in May of that-year-* He 
reports ( Pacific Commercial Advertiser , 11 and 18 August 1859) that Llsiansky, 
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Lassion and Pell islands are one in the same, and that the island is located 
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at 26° north latitude and 175°57' west longitude. It is three by two miles 
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and surrounded by a reef on which the sea breaks heavily. A bank extends 
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southward for several miles, on which there is 19 fathoms of water, shoaling 
to,eight fathoms near the reef. The reef is close to the island on the north 
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and the east, but bulges westward on the west side to form a lagoon two and 
one half miles wide. He gives sailing directions for approaching and anchoring 
at the island, mentioning rock outcroppings, currents, and tidal fluctuations. 
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Brooks found good water on the island, and saw birds, fish and turtle. 
At the south end of the island, near the center, he found the former lagoon to 
be overgrown with shrubs. The camp and well of the Holder Borden party was 
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found, and on the oast point on a hill about 40 feet high was a lookout pole 
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and cask. A ship's house which had been used for sleeping was found at the 
