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couver anchored in Nootka Sound on 2nd August 1794 he found the Washington there undergoing her usual repairs. 37

What success Kendrick had in the trade during this season we do not know. Probably about October 1794 Kendrick sailed from Nootka for the last time. John Boit in his manuscript Log of the Union sets down, on the authority of John Young, that he arrived at Fair- haven Harbour in Oahu on 3rd December 1794. Captain Brown of the Butterworth, who then had under his com- mand only the other two vessels of his squadron, the Prince Lee Boo and the Jackal the Butterworth having returned to England was there at anchor. Brown had received from the chiefs of Oahu a present of the island. Kendrick having aided these chiefs in their successful struggle with those of Kauai offered to salute Brown if the latter returned the compliment. I quote from Boit's account: "In consequence of this victory Kendrick in- formed Brown that he should hoist the flag of the United States and fire a federal salute and desired it may be answered by the two English vessels which was agreed to and Captain Brown ordered six guns to be unshotted for that purpose. Unfortunately in returning the salute from the Jackal the sixth gun was not primed and the gunner without thinking removed the apron from the seventh gun in rotation which was fired and being shotted with round and grape it pierced the side of the Lady Washington and killed Captain Kendrick and wounded many of the crew, badly. Shortly after this the snow put to sea under the command of the chief mate bound for Canton." Walbran, on what authority I do not know, gives the date of Kendrick's death as 1st January 1795. If not exactly accurate this must be a very close approxi- mation.

Thus departed Captain Kendrick, in the fifty-fifth

37 For authority for these statements, see Vancouver's Voyage, 1801 ed., Vol. 5, pp. 5, 29, 112, 115, 121, 123; and Vol. 6, p. 65.