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[2][3] In April 1793, the storeship Daedalus under the command of Lieutenant James Hanson, arrived in Sydney with orders to resupply the expedition of Captain George Vancouver which was stationed on the west coast of America.

[3] Daedalus sailed across the Pacific Ocean to its agreed rendezvous point with the Vancouver expedition at Friendly Cove on Nootka Island which is now part of Canada.

After a few days at Nootka, the vessel journeyed south where they met with Vancouver's ships anchored off the Californian coast near San Francisco in late October.

A large population of Indigenous Californians was located at a nearby mission and village, and these people regularly interacted with the crew of Vancouver's fleet.

However, under instructions to return Daedalus to Sydney with provisions for that settlement, Vancouver abandoned further southerly exploration and decided to sail his fleet to Hawai'i.

Like the other sailors, he "discovered that favours from the females were to be procured at the easy exchange of a looking-glass, a nail, or a knife, he was not backward in presenting his little offering, and was as well received as any of the white people in the ship".

[1] He was remembered "for the docility of his temper, and the high estimation in which he was universally held among the native tribes, he had extended to many an orphan a fostering hand, and, as his own children, provided for their infant wants".