“In the morning of the 7th of May (1792,) the Dædalus (a supply ship to Vancouver’s expedition) arrived in that bay where the Resolution and Discovery had anchored in 1779, but Mr Hergest declined anchoring there, as he considered the inhabitants of that neighbourhood to be the most savage and deceitful of any amongst those islands.” “The cutter was hoisted out and veered astern for the better convenience of purchasing water from the natives … the cutter returned with only five persons instead of the eight who had gone on shore in her … (they were attacked) killed one of the people, and carried off the commander (Hergest) and the astronomer (Gooch.)”

In the spring of 1793 Vancouver returned from the coast of America to Hawai‘i … On the 18th March Vancouver left Lahaina with Kamohomoho on board. After examining the southern and western shores of Molokai, he anchored off Waikiki, Oahu, on the 20th March 1793.” “The main object of Vancouver’s visit to Waikiki was to see that the remaining murderers of the officers and man of the ‘Dædalus’ were apprehended and punished.” ““(Three were apprehended;) the parties executed were criminals of other offences, who, their lives having been forfeited under the laws and customs of the country, were imposed upon Vancouver as the guilty parties in the ‘Dædalus’ affair.”