Fruit of all kinds is very plenty there, and we took away great quantities. The day we were were going to sail the sailors went on shore, and when they returned to the ship had been drinking, and refused to obey the order given by the mate: this was a mutiny. Seventeen men took three boats and left the ship, after nearly killing the mate and a second officer.

We were glad to see them leave the ship as I expected we would all be killed or that they would set fire to the ship.

We left the harbor as soon as possible with a crew of only nine men and arrived in Honolulu in March 1871.

Your father fitted his ship for the Arctic,