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rival at Larks Bay Dirty Butter Bay (29th January 1790) Captain Kendrick "was seized with a violent fever, which caused his life for a time to be despaired of" and that thereafter every obstacle was placed in his way by the Chinese, everything possible to distress him was done, and his troubles culminated when he was arrested in the street of Macao by a guard of soldiers, ordered to depart immediately, and not to return under pain of im- prisonment. 21 What the cause of this unusual treatment was can not be ascertained; how far it may have been connected with an effort to evade the mandarin-made customs laws and the hard and fast commercial or non- commercial oriental ideas we can only surmise.

In March 1791 Captain Kendrick in the Washington, now a brigantine, sailed from Larks Bay, China, for the Northwest Coast of America in company with the Grace, William Douglas, master. Hoskins gives the following epitome of the voyage: "They went into a harbour on the southern coast of Japan where they were received by the natives with the greatest hospitality. Here Cap- tain Kendrick displayed the American flag which is prob- ably the first ever seen in that quarter. They carried to Japan about two hundred prime sea otter skins but the Japanese knew not the use of them. In a few days sail from this they discovered a group of islands to which on account of the natives bringing water off to sell was given the name of Water Islands, they not being down on any chart extant. The natives of these islands as well as those of Japan and the Chinamen could not under- stand each other in talking, but in writing they could well. Their tarry among these islands was short. The two vessels parted company soon after leaving them, each making the best of his way to this coast." 22

The Washington reached Queen Charlotte Islands ; on 13th June 1791 Kendrick anchored in Barrell Sound

21 Hoskins' Narrative MS., p. 130, August, 1791.

22 Id., p. 131; Delano's Voyages, Boston, 1817, p. 43