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JOHN KENDRICK AND His SONS 293

that Captain Kendrick had been lying there in the Wash- ington for the preceding six weeks. This would make it probable that Kendrick had left the Northwest Coast some time in September 1793; the voyage thence to the Hawaiian Islands usually occupied about a month or six weeks. Vancouver leaves the impression that the mate, Boyd, the clerk, Howell, and six or seven seamen left the brigantine at this time. This, however, is scarcely ac- curate. Boyd seems to have been the mate of the Jef- ferson, and the only connection between him and Ken- drick was, according to Menzies, that the Washington brought him to Hawaii from the American coast ; Howell may have been clerk on the Washington, but if so, as the quotation from Menzies given above shows, it was merely a temporary employment.

Menzies' Journal furnishes some interesting items at this point. We learn therefrom that on the day after Vancouver arrived at Karakakooa Bay, he invited Cap- tain Kendrick and Mr. Howell to dine with him on the Discovery. The natives brought Vancouver some quanti- ties of charcoal for sale. This interested Menzies and on making enquiries he found that Kendrick, having no coal for his forge on the Washington, had induced a sea- man from an American vessel to undertake to burn some for him. Thus the natives had found another article of trade with the vessels. About the end of January Ken- drick with a party of officers from the Discovery went to view the schooner then in process of construction for Kamehameha. Vancouver throws no light on Kendrick's success in the sandalwood venture. In March 1794 he met Kendrick at Kauai. The latter had, in the interval, obtained at Waikiki in Oahu, from the natives, some eighty pounds of beeswax that had drifted ashore there. We learn from Vancouver that at the other islands Ken- drick had procured further small quantities of this bees- wax. After spending the winter amongst these islands Kendrick returned to the Northwest Coast. When Van-