The American Fur Company's sea expedition is…
February 1811 CE
The American Fur Company's sea expedition is to transport fur from the Pacific Fur Company by the ship Tonquin, under the command of former Navy officer Jonathan Thorn, an impatient and hard man who had quickly established a reputation as a strict and abrasive martinet.
Having left New York on September 8, 1810, the Tonquin reaches the Kingdom of Hawaii on February 12, 1811, dropping anchor at Kealakekua Bay.
The possibility of men deserting the ship in favor of the islands becomes a major threat.
Thorn has no choice but to make amends with the PFC partners to police the crew.
Several men abandon ship but the cooperation of the nearby Native Hawaiians sees their return.
One man is flogged, another put in chains.
Thorn assembles all of the crew and PFC employees and harasses the men to remain on the ship.
Commercial transactions eventually begin with the Hawaiians; the crew purchases cabbage, sugar cane, purple yams, taro, coconuts, watermelon, breadfruit, hogs, goats, two sheep, and poultry for "glass beads, iron rings, needles, cotton cloth".
A courier from government agent John Young orders the Tonquin to visit him for meat supplies and then to have an audience with King Kamehameha I, who resides on Oʻahu.