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MISSIONARY TOUR 
of Maui was visited about the same time by the unfor¬ 
tunate La Perouse. After this period the islands were 
frequently visited by vessels engaged in the fur trade. 
Captain Douglas, of the Iphigenia, and Captain Metcalf, 
of the Eleanor, an American snow, were nearly cut off 
by the turbulent chiefs, who were desirous to procure 
the guns and ammunition belonging to their vessels, to 
aid them in carrying their purposes of conquest into 
effect. The son of the latter, a youth of sixteen, who 
commanded a schooner, called the Fair American, which 
accompanied the Eleanor from Canton, when close in 
with the land off Mouna Huararai, was becalmed ; the 
natives thronged on board, threw young Metcalf over¬ 
board, seized and plundered the vessel, and murdered 
all the crew, excepting the mate, whose name was 
Isaac Davis. He resided many years with Tameha- 
meha, who very severely censured the chief under whose 
direction this outrage had been committed. A seaman 
whose name is Young, belonging to the Eleanor, who was 
on shore at the time, was prevented from gaining his ves¬ 
sel, but was kindly treated by the king, and is still 
living at Towaihae. 
In the years 1792 and 1793, Captain Vancouver, while 
engaged in a voyage of discovery in the North Pacific, 
spent several months at the Sandwich Islands ; and 
notwithstanding the melancholy catastrophe which had 
terminated the life, of Captain Cook, whom he had ac¬ 
companied, and the treacherous designs of the warlike 
and ambitious chiefs towards several of his predeces¬ 
sors, he met with the most friendly treatment from all 
parties, and received the strongest expressions of con¬ 
fidence from Tamehameha, sovereign of the whole group, 
who had been wounded in the skirmish that followed 
