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bulent 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 six- 
teen, 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 overboard, seized and 
plundered the vessel, and murdered all the crew, 
excepting the mate, whose name was Isaac Davis. 
He resided many years with Tamehameha, 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 pre¬ 
vented from gaining his vessel, 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 Sand¬ 
wich Islands; and, notwithstanding the melancholy 
catastrophe which had terminated the life of Capt, 
Cook, whom he had accompanied, and the trea¬ 
cherous designs of the warlike and ambitious chiefs 
towards several of his predecessors, he met with 
the most friendly treatment from all parties, and 
received the strongest expressions of confidence 
from Tamehameha, sovereign of the whole group, 
who had been wounded in the skirmish that fol¬ 
lowed the death of their discoverer, but who had 
ever lamented with deepest regret that melancholy 
event. He alone had prevented the murderous 
intentions of his chieftains towards former vessels 
from being carried into effect; and it was his uni¬ 
form endeavour to shew every mark of friendship 
