SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
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climate is favourable to these animals, and the country is now 
w r ell stocked both with wild and tame cattle ; so that ships, in 
addition to fresh vegetables, are supplied with excellent beef, 
and the resources of the natives incalculably augmented. 
Tamehamelia’s hospitality and attention to Vancouver 
induced the latter, before he left the Sandwich Islands, to 
permit his carpenters to assist Young, Davies, and Boyd, to 
build a schooner* for him, and to furnish the necessary iron 
work, a suit of sails and other things, the rigging being of 
the native cordage. 
Captain Vancouver endeavoured, by every means in his 
power, though without success, to establish a peaceful and 
friendly feeling between the chiefs of the different Islands; 
and it is very probable that the aspiring temper of Ta- 
mehameha himself w r as the greatest obstacle to a peace, 
which would necessarily have retarded the conquest of the 
w r hole of the Isles, which he meditated. 
But the most singular circumstance which occurred 
during Vancouver’s visit in 1794, was the formal cession 
which, in the presence of the assembled chiefs -[•, Tame- 
* Keel, 36 feet; beam, 9^ feet; depth of hold, 5 feet; called the Britannia. 
f Tereremitee, Karaimamaho, Kalumotu, Tereeukee, Kavahelu, Tianna, 
and Temahamotu. 
