Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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and the Sca Otter, a sloop of 150 tons, under Capt. Tipping.
They sailed from Calcutta March 2, 1786, and Capt. Meares arrived off Alaska in the following August. He met with poor
success in buying furs, and having failed to meet his consort, the
Sea Otter, he unwisely decided to spend the winter at Prince
William's Sound. Twenty-three of the crew died of scurvy and
cold. In May, 1787, they were found hy Portlock and Dixon.
Portlock had his carpenter calk and repair the Nootka and her
long boat, furnished Meares with provisions and two seamen
for the return to China. Captain Meares spent the following
August at Kauai, where he was hospitably treated. He says,
"They received us with joy, and saw us depart with tears."
From Portlock and Dixon's accounts, however, thev seemed to
have quarreled with Kaeo and Opunui' s party, and to have fired
on them.
The High Chief Kaiana, who was later to figure as a so-called
traitor to Kamehameha the Great, who was not bildden to the
famous Council of Chiefs on Molokai in 1793, and who lost his
life fighting Kamehameha in Nuuanu Valley, Oahu, in 1795,
sailed with Meares for China. He left on September 2, 1787.
The vessel was wrecked in Octol)er in a typhoon at Typa, near
the mouth of the Canton river, but all hands and cargo were
save(l.
Kaiana, who is believed to have been tile first Iawaiian to
go abroad, remained several months at Canton, and was very
kindly treated by the foreign resi(lents, witl whlom he was a
great favorite. When he first saw the ships at Whampoa, his
astonishment baffled description an(l he called them the "Islands
of Britannee." His portrait was painted at this time, in which
he is represented as wearing a feather cloak and helmet anl
holding a spear. An engraving from it appears ini Meares' narrative. Captain Meares says Kaiana (Taiana) "was about 32
years of age; lhe was nearly 6 feet 5 inches in stature, and the
nuscular form of his limbs was of Herculean appearance. Iis
carriage was replete with dignity. * * * He wore the dre:s
of Europe with the habitual eas<. of its inhalitants; and he not