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supercargoes on board, he sent his vessels to China with 
sandal-wood, and perceiving the benefits arising from the 
use of money, he, first of all the Polynesian chiefs, began to 
receive it in exchange for the natural productions of his 
country. 
Nor was money the only species of riches he amassed. 
At his death numerous warehouses were found full of ar¬ 
ticles fitted for barter or commerce with the different 
nations who should touch at his ports. It is computed that 
in one year alone not less than 400,000 dollars’ worth of san- 
dal-wood, from the Sandwich Isles, had been sold at Canton. 
Now of this only one cargo had been on the king’s account; 
the rest was, we believe, entirely, but certainly chiefly, car¬ 
ried by the Americans, who had received the price of two 
schooners, guns, ammunition, and various stores, in that 
precious wood. 
Some shops began to appear towards the latter end of 
his reign, kept by Europeans and Americans; and many 
foreigners, particularly Marini, a Spaniard, had formed ex¬ 
tensive gardens, where melons and gourds of all kinds, va¬ 
rious species of cabbage, potatoes, and other vegetables cul¬ 
tivated in Europe, had been introduced with great success. 
Marini had also reclaimed some of the cattle, which had 
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