Gray and accompanied him, by way of Canton, China, all the way back to Boston, where he arrived August 9, 1790. Attoo also served as Captain Gray's servant when the Columbia, sailing from Boston in September of the same year, made her second voyage to the northwest coast of America and arrived at Clayoquot Sound in June, 1791 . While there he ran away among the Indians who returned him after one of their chiefs had been held as ransom. Attoo received a severe flogging for his attempted desertion. Later in this year he watched the construction by Gray of the sloop Adventure and proved his loyalty by revealing a plot of the Indians to seize the ship and massacre all the crew. This Hawaiian lad was on board the Columbia in May, 1792, when that ship entered the river to which Gray gave her name.
After a cargo of furs had been collected the Columbia sailed away for China by way of the Hawaiian Islands where stops were made at several ports to secure supplies of food. On November 2, 1792, the Columbia ran into the harbor of Attoo's native island where he had come aboard in September, 1789 . When his father and other kinsmen came aboard to greet him he refused to go on shore and "Captain Gray did not think proper to force him."[1] The Columbia reached Boston July 25, 1793, after her second voyage around the world with Attoo presumably still safely aboard.
Another Hawaiian boy called Jack was not so fortunate as Attoo. He shipped on another Boston vessel, the Margaret, in November, 1792, went to China, and died of the scurvy while still aboard that ship while she was spending her second season on the northwest coast.[2]
Two Hawaiian maidens about the same time made a voyage to Nootka and returned safely home. They were passengers on the Jenny that sailed from Bristol, England, in June, 1791, with James Baker as captain. After leaving the Hawaiian Islands, probably in May, 1792, the Jenny reached the Cali-
- ↑ Boit, "Log of the Columbia," Oregon Historical Quarterly, XXII, 278, 299, 300, 333.
- ↑ Howay, "The Ship Margaret," Hawaiian Historical Society, Report, XXXVIII, 38.
