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service or supplies from those who occupy the land 
of another, without his direction. 
The king occasionally changes the tenants of a 
farm, without taking the proprietorship from the 
chief who may hold it more immediately from 
himself; and, when the rents are insufficient to 
meet his wants, if any of the neighbouring farmers 
have potatoes and taro in their fields, he, or any 
high chief, will send their men, and hao , seize, 
the greater part of them, without making any 
remuneration to the injured parties. 
Besides the sums which the king receives from 
the land, and the monopoly of the trade, in live 
stock and other supplies furnished to the shipping 
at several ports in the islands, the revenue is aug¬ 
mented by the harbour dues at Oahu. Every vessel 
anchoring in the outer harbour pays sixty dollars, 
and eighty for entering the basin, or inner harbour. 
Till within two or three years, it was only forty for 
one, and sixty for the other.* The pilotage, which 
is a dollar per foot for every vessel, both on en¬ 
tering and leaving the harbour, is divided between 
the government and the pilot. 
Another singular method of taxing the people, 
is by building a new house for the king, or some 
principal chief. On the first day the king or chief 
* The demand for these dues originated in their un¬ 
profitable voyage to Canton^in 1816. The cargo of sandal 
wood was sold, but, instead of a return in cloths, silks, 
&c. the vessel came back nearly empty, and in debt. The 
king inquired the reason; when the captain, a very in¬ 
competent person for such a business, told him that some 
of the money had been stolen ; that so much was demanded 
for pilotage, coming to anchor, &c. as to leave nothing for 
the purpose of fitting the vessel for sea, which had occa¬ 
sioned the debt. “ If,” replied the king, “ that be the 
case, we will have a pilot here, and every vessel that 
enters the harbour shall pay me for anchorage.” 
