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goes on to say that the men had become quite habituated to the native life and had adopted the native dress. He gave them some one hundred young orange plants to be distributed through the island, and to one of them he gave a collection of garden seeds "to amuse him in mak- ing a garden on that island and instruct the natives in the method of rearing and using them."

Kendrick reached Larks Bay again on 7th December 1791. 34 He spent nine months in disposing of his furs doubtless he had to smuggle them as Ingraham did and preparing for his next voyage. Here one may compare Kendrick's and Ingraham's relative speed. Ingraham did in four months what it took Kendrick nine to do; their cargoes were of about the same size; their vessels much the same size; and they were exchanging their furs in the same market, under the same conditions, and at the same time. But to return. In September 1792 Kendrick set out again from Macao in the Washington, accompanied by a small tender. As the brigantine herself was only ninety tons, one can imagine the size of the tender. Four days after his departure he met a typhoon. The fury of the gale threw the Washington on her beam-ends. The masts were cut away; the vessel righted; and under jury mast the crippled brigantine limped into Macao Roads. The sea was strewn with the wrecks of Chinese junks. Half-drowned Chinese were clinging to the debris. Ken- drick saved some thirty of the poor fellows. He was refitting the Washington at Larks Bay when, in Decem- ber 1792, the Columbia entered Macao Roads on her sec- ond voyage. 35

Fitting out once more Kendrick essayed his third and last voyage to the Northwest coast. Being now a man of fifty-three he had determined to make this "just one more trip." We do not know his exact date of sailing;

34 Ingraham's Journal MS.

35 Bolt's Log of the Columbia in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXII, p. 335.