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In the spring of 1841, a sea-faring man called at my rooms, in Boston, and said he wished to see me, as he knew something about a man I had spoken of in my book. He then told me that he was second mate of the barque Mary Frazer , which sailed from Batavia in company with the Cabot, bound to Manilla; that when off the Pelew Islands they fell in with a canoe with two natives on board, who told them that there was an American ship ahead, out of sight, and that they had put a white man on board of her. The bark gave the canoe a tow for a short distance. When the Mary Frazer arrived at Manilla, they found the Cabot there; and my informant said that George came on board several times, and told the same story that I had given of him in this book. He said the name of George's schooner was the Dash, and that she was wrecked, and attacked by the natives, as Geoige had told me.

This man, whose name was Beauchamp, was second mate of the Mary Frazer when she tools the missionaries to Oahu. He became religious during the passage, and joined the mission church at Oahu upon his arrival. When I saw him, he was master of a bark.