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(ion to the crown of Great Britain, which was unanimoufly defircd. This important bufinefs, however, for which their attendance had been demanded, appeared to be of fecondar/ confideration to ail of them ; and the happinefs they exprefled on our return, together with their cordial behaviour, proved, beyond difpute, that our arrival at Ovvhyhce was the objeft moll conducive to the picafure of their jour- ney. Even Tianna condu6ted himfelf with an unufuai degree of good humour; but as neither he, nor his brother Nomatahah, from their turbulent, treacherous, and ungrateful difpofitions, were favorites amongR us, his humility, on this occafion, obtained him only the reputa- tion of poflening a very fuperior degree of art and duplicity. But as the principal objeft I had in view was to preferve the good underflanding that had been eflablifhed between us, and, if poffible, to fecure it on a permanent bafis, for the benefit of thofe who might fucceed us at thefe iflands, I waved all retrofpe6live confiderations, and treated Tianna with every mark of attention, to which his rank, as one of the fix provin- cial chiefs, intitled him, and with which, on all occafions, he appeared to be highly gratified. Thefe chiefs brought intelligence, that a quantity of timber which had been fent for at my requeft, wa;; on its way hither ; it had been cut down under the diredlions of an Enghfhman, whofe name was Boid, for- merly the mate of the floop Wafhington, but who had relinquifhed that way of life, and had entered into the fervice of Tamaahmaah. He ap- peared in the charafter of a (hipwright, and had undertaken to build, with thefe materials, a veficl for the king, after the European falhion ; but not having been regularly brought up to this bufinefs, both himfelf and his comrades. Young and Davis, were fearful of encountering too many difficulties ; efpecially as they were all much at a lofs in the firfl out- fet, that of laying down the keel, and properly letting up the frame ; but could they be righdy afiilled in thefe primary operations, Boid (who had the appearance of being very indullrious and ingenious) feem- ed to entertain no doubt of accomplifhing the red of their underta- king. VoL.m. D This
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