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with no more provisions than a little fish which they had bought from the Indians. Making the attempt steering between two bodies of land they came out into the ocean in latitude 50. They had crossed the bay of La Espe- ranza and had taken possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain, Don Carlos IV. As evidence of this, they set up, at a distance of 20' from the afore- said Tashis a cross with the inscription 'Carolus IV His- paniarum et Yndiarum Rex' with the name of Don Este- van Martinez engraved in these letters : T. D. E. J. M. Anno de 1789.' No other people have seen this passage but in all of it there is good anchorage for ships of all sizes which can be moored to the shore. The English who have come into this port have expressed doubts as to the existence of the passage but no one has proved its existence until it was done by Kendrick and the inter- preter."

He then disappears into the mists of the Spanish archives, and is seen no more until Ingraham arrives at Hawaii in May 1791. He learned that in the preceding month two Spanish vessels had touched there. In them was "Mr. John Kendrick Junr, Captain Kendrick's son whom he had let remain on board the Princesa with Don E. J. Martinez. These vessels from (Tianna's) descrip- tion I knew to be the Argonaut and Princess Royal which were captured in Nootka Sound." Tianna also gave to Ingraham a letter from John Kendrick Jr. to his father to be delivered in the event of their meeting on the Northwest coast. 42 The Argonaut and Princess Royal, though called Spanish, were then in Colnett possession. Setting out from San Bias in the former, Colnett had, in accordance with the understanding with the Spanish of- ficers, sought the other at Nootka, but in vain. Sailing thence for China he called, as usual, at the Hawaiian Islands, where he accidentally encountered her and took

42 Ingraham's Journal MS, May 23, 1791; Hawaiian Historical So- ciety Reprints (No. 3), p. 8.