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 JAMES COLNETT AND THE "PRINCESS ROYAL" 51 the missing sailor 31 and Colnett repeated the denial which he had previously made, adding the information that the deserter had not been seen on the island of Hawaii after Quimper's departure. During the afternoon of the next day the Argonaut sailed for Macao. The Princess Royal remained a day longer, Quimper having been told by the natives that there were on shore some fragments of a wrecked ship. Colnett also had told him that on his last voyage he had at this island bought a main mast, which he had used as firewood. The natives were requested to bring on board the Princess Royal a piece of the wrecked ship as verification of their story. In answer to this invitation they brought a root of a tree. Quimper concluded that it was time for him to go, par- ticularly as the season was advancing. He accordingly sailed for Manila on the eighteenth of April, arriving at his destination about the middle of June. Such in substance is the account which the Spanish offiicer gives of his voyage and of his meeting with Col- nett at the Sandwich Islands. The Englishman doubtless would have related the matter somewhat differently, but that could hardly change the general result. The ad- ditional bits of evidence which we have, such as those furnished by Ingraham and Vancouver, agree well enough with the account given by Quimper. We may appropriately bring this recital to a close with a few notes from the sequel. Of Colnett it is stated, on the authority of the chief Kaiana, that he visited the Hawaiian Islands again in the fall of 1791, 32 but this 31 One is led to wonder whether this sailor may not have been the Spaniard, who under the name of Francisco de Paula y Marin (commonly called "Manini"), figures so prominently in the agricultural history of these islands during the first part of the last century. It has never been learned definitely how or when Paula y Marin came here. R. C. Wylie, Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Relations, in 1850 spoke of him as coming to the islands "at a very early period, (it is believed in the Princesa Real, in 1791). " Transactions of the Royal Havoaiian Agricultural Society, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 46. 32 Vancouver, op. cit., I, p. 350; New Vancouver Journal (MS), entry for March 5, 1792. 'i