290 BEAMBLE FIEES ON THE NATIVES. 



into the chains^ but^ owing^ to an unavoidable occur- 

 rence^ no return was made for it^ upon which the 

 owner snatched the cap from off the head of a marine 

 attending- at the g'angway. The canoe which had 

 broug'ht the pig' then shoved off, and^ on bein^ 

 directed b}^ g'estures to return the cap^ one man 

 stood up and poised his spear^ and the others g'ot 

 their arms ready. Several musket shots were fired 

 into the canoe from a distance of six or seven yards^ 

 but^ reg'arding* the effect^ conflicting' statements have 

 been made. No resistance was attempted, as, after 

 the first shot, some of the natives jumped into the 

 water and all made off in confusion, which was 

 fin'ther increased when a round shot was fired in the 

 direction of a distant canoe comino- out from the 

 shore. 



SejH, 21st. — Took a passag-e in a boat sent with 

 Lieut. Simpson to g'et a round of angies on one of 

 three neig'hbouring' islands (afterwards called Pari- 

 wara, the native name), situated two miles and a 

 half N.W. from Eedscar Point, with which they 

 appear formerl}^ to have been continuous, and, like 

 it, are remarkable for their red and white cliffs. 

 The larg-est, that on which we landed, is only three- 

 fourths of a mile in leng-th. In shape it is somewhat 

 triangnilar : one side is formed b}^ a rounded ridg-e, 

 the hig'hest point of which is 234 feet in heig-ht, with 

 irregular cliffs along the sea margin* the opposite 



and prepared as a specimen, now in the British Museum, the only 

 Sus Papuensis in England at the present time. 



