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been killed ; which ended in Menalee's shooting chap 

 Timoa as he sat by the side of Young's wife, ac- <— y4. 

 companying her song with his flute. Timoa not ^5 

 dying immediately, Menalee reloaded, and delibe- 

 rately despatched him by a second discharge. He 

 afterwards attacked Tetaheite, who was condoling 

 with Young's wife for the loss of her favourite 

 black, and would have murdered him also, but for 

 the interference of the women. Afraid to remain 

 longer in the village, he escaped to the mountains 

 and joined Quintal and M'Coy, who, though glad 

 of his services, at first received him with suspicion. 

 This great acquisition to their force enabled them to 

 bid defiance to the opposite party ; and to show 

 their strength, and that they were provided with 

 muskets, they appeared on a ridge of mountains, 

 within sight of the village, and fired a volley which 

 so alarmed the others that they sent Adams to say, 

 if they would kill the black man, Menalee, and 

 return to the village, they would all be friends 

 again. The terms were so far complied with that 

 Menalee was shot ; but, apprehensive of the since- 

 rity of the remaining blacks, they refused to return 

 while they were alive. 



Adams says it was not long before the widows of 

 the white men so deeply deplored their loss, that 

 they determined to revenge their death, and con- 

 certed a plan to murder the only two remaining 

 men of colour. Another account, communicated by 

 the islanders, is, that it was only part of a plot 

 formed at the same time that Menalee was murdered, 

 'which could not be put in execution before. How- 

 ever this may be, it was equally fatal to the poor 

 blacks. The arrangement was, that Susan should 



