Interestingly enough, if Schaffer had taken things more slowly, he may have been able to establish an independent trading relationship with Kaumualii that would have complemented what Baranov was already doing with Kamehameha. That might have resulted in a Russian presence in the Hawaiian Islands that would have greatly strengthened a trading triangle between the islands, Sitka, and the California coast, and put Russian America more at the center of the Cantonese trade. Ironically, the United States finally acquired the Hawaiian Islands in 1893 by exploiting native unrest much as Schaffer had
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