Jokes were cracked upon the only
Frenchman in the ship, and comparisons made between "old horse" and
"soup meagre," etc., etc.
We remained in uncertainty as to this war for more than two
months, when an arrival from the Sandwich Islands brought us the
news of an amicable arrangement of the difficulties.
The other vessel which we found in port was the hermaphrodite brig
Avon, from the Sandwich Islands. She was fitted up in handsome
style; fired a gun and ran her ensign up and down at sunrise and
sunset; had a band of four or five pieces of music on board, and
appeared rather like a pleasure yacht than a trader; yet, in
connection with the Loriotte, Clementine, Bolivar, Convoy, and other
small vessels, belonging to sundry Americans at Oahu, she carried on a
great trade- legal and illegal- in otter skins, silks, teas, specie,
etc.
The second day after our arrival, a full-rigged brig came round
the point from the northward, sailed leisurely through the bay, and
stood off again for the south-east, in the direction of the large
island of Catalina. The next day the Avon got under weigh, and stood
in the same direction, bound for San Pedro.
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