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acknowledged, actually refused to receive that gentleman, 
and declared that he would have no interpreter who should 
not be under his orders, and engage to interpret at his 
bidding: the man who consequently accompanied the king 
to England as interpreter was a Frenchman of the name of 
Rives, of a respectable family in the neighbourhood of 
Bourdeaux; but he had very early run away from the ship 
to which he belonged, and fixing in the Sandwich Islands he 
had lived there twenty-two years, and had acquired a com¬ 
petent knowledge of the language; speaking, besides, the 
English and French fluently. 
This man seemed always linked with Captain Starbuck, 
and was of a low, cunning, and profligate nature. On the 
passage to England no pains were spared to induce the 
Sandwich chiefs to drink and gamble, vices to which half- 
civilized people, especially when condemned to idleness, are 
always prone. The Aigle touched, in her way to England, 
at Rio de Janeiro, where the English Consul-general being 
made acquainted with the general purpose of Tamehameha's 
visit to England, and having a just idea of the importance 
of it as regards our commerce in the Pacific, received 
them honourably and gave a ball to their majesties, to which 
all the principal Brazilian families and English residents 
were invited. Nothing was more to be admired in the 
