eld out, I believe all the girls in the island would have undergone the
same operation.

A party was sent on shore to cut wood for fuel, and grass for the sheep;
but they would not permit a blade of grass to be cut till they were paid
for it.

The watering party shared the same fate; and notwithstanding a guard of
armed men were sent to protect the others whilst on that duty, the
natives were continually harassing them, and commiting depredations. One
of them came behind Lieut. Corner, and made a blow at him with his club,
which luckily missed his head, and only stunned him in the back of the
neck; and, while in that state, snatched his handkerchief from him; but
Mr. Corner recovering before the thief got out of sight, levelled his
piece and shot him dead.

Tatafee[135-1] the king was going to collect tribute from the islands
under his jurisdiction, and went in the frigate to Tofoa; but previous to
our sailing, a letter was left to Mr. Oliver, the commander of the
tender, should he chance to arrive before our return, with Macaucala, a
principal chief. In the night, the burning mountain on Tofoa exhibited a
very grand spectacle; and in the morning two canoes were sent on shore,
to announce the arrival of those two great personages, Tatafee and
Toobou, who went on shore in the _Pandora's_ barge, to give them more
consequence; but the tributary princes came off in canoes, to do homage
to Tatafee before he reached the shore. They came alongside the barge,
lowered their heads over the side of the canoe, and Tatafee, agreeable to
their custom, put his foot upon their heads. When on shore, what presents
he had received from us, he distributed amongst his subjects, with a
liberality worthy of a great prince.

Some of the people were here who behaved with such savage barbarity to
Capt. Bligh's boat at Murderer's Cove. They perfectly recollected Mr.
Hayward, and seemed to shrink from him. Captain Edwards took much pains
with Tatafee, the king, to make him sensible of his disapprobation of
their conduct to Capt. Bligh's boat. But conciliatory and gentle means
were all that could be enjoined at present, lest our tender should fall
in amongst them.

FOOTNOTES:

[126-1] This gives occasion for a splenetic and unjust tirade from an
anonymous writer in the _United Service Journal_ for 1831: "When this
boat with a midshipman and several men (four) had been inhumanely ordered
from alongside, it was known that there was nothing i