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May 18 – Clear and pleasant. General Court Martial met at 9:30. Sent 58 men ashore fully equipped. Court adjourned to meet again tomorrow. Have a General in the Samoan Army wash my clothes for 3s per month and all the fruit I can eat thrown in.

May 19. Clear and pleasant. General court-martial reconvened at 9:30 and adjourned at 1:30 PM. An American brig came in and anchored. Wrote to J. and sent mail ashore. Skoch returned to the ship from landed party, having been shot in the arm. Took Bjornson to relieve him. The Samoan Malieato Tami (who ought to be king, succeeding his father) came onboard to see the Commissioner. The ‘Alameda’  Royal Mail steamer, eastbound, came in. 

Heavy dew in evening. Rowed Ensign Morrison over to ‘Alameda’ for newspapers etc.


May 20. Cloudy and dewy early part of morning. Toward 8:00 AM clear and pleasant. The Samoan Matafa with a retinue of chief came on board and held a conference with the Commissioner. Transferred two caskets to the Flagship. McSweeney got drunk while on shore duty and was returned to the ship to await trial by Court-Martial. The sentence of a General Court-Martial, which on the 19th inst. [instead] tried J. Mulcahy on a charge of Conduct to the prejudice a good order and discipline was announced to the accused and was as follows: To be confined on this ship until the opportunity should occur when he shall be transported to the U.S. then to be confined at such place as the Secretary of the Navy may designate for a period of 6 months; and to lose all pay that may become due him during his confinement, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Naval Service. By order of the Rear Admiral Kautz, Mulcahy was transferred to the U.S.S. Philadelphia for transportation to the U.S.





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