We ran up our colors, and received his majesty with a salute of four guns.
Tamehameha was above the middle height, well made, robust and inclined to corpulency, and had a majestic carriage.

He appeared to me from fifty to sixty years old.

He was clothed in the European style, and wore a sword.

He walked a long time on the deck, asking explanations in regard to those things which he had not seen on other vessels, and which were found on ours.

A thing which appeared to surprise him, was to see that we could render the water of the sea fresh, by means of the still attached to our caboose; he could not imagine how that could be done.
We invited him into the cabin, and, having regaled him with some glasses of wine, began to talk of business matters: we offered him merchandise in exchange for hogs, but were not able to conclude the bargain that day.