SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
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His intelligent mind was aware of the incalculable supe¬ 
riority possessed by the Europeans and others, whose ships 
visited him, over his own poor Islanders. The circum¬ 
stances, that the English were the first to touch there; that 
their vessels were the largest and most powerful; that, be¬ 
sides the advantages sought for themselves in procuring 
provisions of all kinds, they had endeavoured to improve 
the Islands by carrying thither new and profitable animals 
and vegetables; all led him to look on the British as not 
only the most powerful but the most friendly of the new 
nations they had learned to know; and he might reasonably 
hope that we should be as willing as able to protect them 
against the insults and injuries that some of the traders had 
offered them *. 
Soon after the departure of the Discovery, the war be¬ 
tween Hawaii and the neighbouring Islands was renewed. 
It was aggravated by the treachery of the chief Tianna, 
who, being sent with an army to Maui in 1794, joined its 
king against Tamehameha; but in the same year he was 
killed, and the Island subdued. The king, accompanied by 
* Turnbull acknowledges 44 the wanton and ill-judged cruelties which, 
under the circumstance of the slightest quarrel with these natives, are but too 
commonly practised.” 
It was to revenge some barbarous insults that the two officers of one of 
Vancouver’s vessels were killed by the people of Maui .—See Vancouver. 
