The Plough Boy Anthology of the Sandwich Islands:

      Captains Portlock and Dixon passed through the Sandwich Islands in May-June 1786 en route to the Pacific Northwest. They first visited Owhyhee (the island of Hawaii). Before they left the islands they visited Morotoi (Molokai), Woahoo (Oahu), Atoui (Kauai) and Oneehow (Nihau) .

      Nathaniel Portlock, who had previously visited the Sandwich Islands with Cook's third voyage, while commanding the ship King George, visited the Sandwich Islands in May and June 1786. With George Dixon commanding the Queen Charlotte, they visited the islands of Owhyhee (Hawaii), Morotoi (Molokai), Woahoo (Oahu), Atoui (Kauai) and Oneehow (Nihau). Taheeeterre was the king of Oahu, Molokai and Maui at this time.

      Gabriel Franchere, with a group of Canadians, embarked on John Jacob Astor's ship Tonquin September 8, 1810, for the Pacific Northwest where they were to establish a trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River. This body built Fort Astoria for Astor's Pacific Fur Company. En route the Tonquin spent most of February 1811 in the Sandwich Islands, chiefly at the island of Wahoo (Oahu). While anchored outside the reef off Ohetity (Waikiki) they negotiated with King Tamahameha for provisions and native Hawaiians to carry to the Northwest Coast.

      Alexander Maconochie submits a proposal tro the Secretary of State for War and Colonies, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that a colony be established on one of the Sandwich Islands. His argues for this citing easier access to China, the Pacific Northwest fur trade, and the whale fishery in the Pacific.

      James Hunnewell, sandalwood trader and Honolulu merchant from Charleston, Massachusetts, first arrived in the Sandwich Islandsin March 1817. This essay, written and edited by Hunnewell's son, James F. Hunnewell, uses his fathers journal of 1817 and 1818 to describe Oahu of that period.

      Jacques Araqo narrative of the French Corvette Uranie's visit to the Sandwich Islands in August 1819.

      Six plates by the artist Jacques Araqo from the French Corvette Uranie's visit to the Sandwich Islands in August 1819.

Citation information for the parts of Corney's work which originally appeared in the Literary Gazette (Vol. 5 (1821). Usually the chapters were preceded with the banner "Original Voyages." — (see source statement in the document)

      Peter Corney begins his work with: "The only object the author of this work has in making his observations on the trade between the north-west coast of America and the Sandwich islands and China, is, to point out to the merchants of this country the vast trade that is carried on between those places by the Americans and the Russians while an English flag is rarely to be seen." While Corney's interest is in the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest, he shows how important the Sandwich Islands were to this trade as a place for acquiring provisions, watering and also for carrying on the sandalwood trade with China. Corney's death in 1835 occurred when he and his family were attempting to return to the Pacific Northwest.

      The first publication of Corney's narrative in a single publication. While Corney's interest is in the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest, he shows how important the Sandwich Islands were to this trade as a place for acquiring provisions, watering and also for carrying on the sandalwood trade with China. The last chapters deal with Corney's participation in the wars of independence in South America as Captain of the Patriot brig Santa Rosa. The appendix contains corresponence of Captain Bouchard. Corney's death in 1835 occurred when he and his family were attempting to return to the Pacific Northwest.

      Louis Choris' nineteen colored plates and text from his visit to the Sandwich Islands. There is also a map of the Pacific ocean. Wikipedia notes: "In 1816, he visited the Pacific and the west coast of North America on board the Russian expeditionary ship Rurik, serving as an artist with the Romanzoff expedition under the command of Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue, which was tasked with exploring a northwest passage."

      The U.S.S. Vincennes, Captain William Finch, arrived at Honolulu October 2, 1829. While his charge, in part, was to deal with debts of the Hawaiian government to American interests, he also was treated as a state visitor from the United States. John C. Jones was the U.S. Consul in Honolulu. In his letter to Finch he writes of the importance of the Sandwich Islands to American activities in the Pacific – primarily whaling and the fur trade from the Pacific northwest. His suggested that there should be regular visits by an American sloop-of-war to the Sandwich Islands to protect the interests of the United States in the region.