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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their hands. The king's elder brother, Kalaimamahu, was to kill
Capt. Douglas, and his younger brother, Keliimaikai, was to do
the same for the boatswain, while "Pareeonow" was to stab Mr.
(ladmson, the first officer. When Capt. Douglas noticed that
the clhiefs were armed, and that the queen had been secretly conveyed awSay from the ship, he suspected treachery. Under variotis pretences he mnanaged to get the pistol and a dagger from
two chiefs, and the moment that Kaiana arrived, took him alone
in his cabin and demanded an explanation. Kaiana, with tears
and lamentations, unfolded the plot and laid the chief blame of
it on the king. Tie said he had sent his servant to warn the captain, but he had been so closely watched that he had no opportunity to do so. Capt. Iouglas rushed on deck with the pistol
and the effect was such that the chiefs immediately quit the
vessel. Kamehameha afterwards made humble apologies, laying the blame on his chiefs. Friendly intercourse was resumed.
Meares and Douglas may have been mistaken in their estimate of
Kaiana's character, and the historian, Alexander, believes Kaiana
actually had a hand in the plot. On August 27, 1789, Captain
I)ouglas sailed for Macao.
An American trader named Metcalf was treacherously suppl)ied
by Mr. Jaqlues, mate of the Prilncss Royal, with copies of his own
an(d Capt. Hudson's charts and journals, in the spring of 1789,
inl Chinla. He sailed from Macao for the northwest coast in the
snow Elca;nlor, mounting ten g.uns, with a crew of ten Americans
and forty-five Chinese. lie was accompanied 1by a small schooner
of twenty-six tons, the Fair Alericanvl, comllmandedb by his son, a
youthl of eighteen years of age. ITe returned from the coast in
the autumn and was trading along the coast of Hawaii toward the
elnd of 1789, the Fair -Amellrican having been (letained at Nootka
Sounl by the Spaniards. Kaiana and other chiefs formed a plot
to take the ship, when the crew were off their guard, but were
prevented by Kamehameha, who went on hoard and ordered them
all ashore. Kameeiamoku, chief of the Kohala district, having
gone aboard the Elcanlor, was beaten with a rope's end by the
elder Mletcalf for some petty offence. Smarting under the in