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116 Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, about the middle of that month, says:

And Menzies at the same place soon after, writes:

Menzies' statement suggests another feature of this traffic which deserves to be more particularly noticed, namely, the defective character of much of the material sold to the Hawaiian chiefs. On this point Vancouver writes a scathing denunciation.