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and left tliem on the wreck, exposed to the cruelties of the 

 natives. 



August 7th, the " Porpoise " came in and anchored. She 

 left Ovalau on the 4th instant. Captain Wilkes was there 

 in the " Flying Fish," and was to follow the brig in a few 

 days. 



During the afternoon of the 8th, a meeting was held on 

 board the " Peacock," when Captain Hudson was called to 

 the chair, and Lieutenant R. E. Johnson appointed secretary. 

 The chair announced that the object of the meeting was to 

 obtain a joint expression of feeling in relation to the death of 

 Lieutenant Joseph A. Underwood and Midshipman Wilkes 

 Henry, who, on the 24th day of July last, were treacherously 

 killed by the natives of Malolo. 



On motion, a committee, consisting of Lieut. Johnson, Dr. 

 J. C. Palmer, Mr. W r illiam Rich (botanist), Passed Midship- 

 man Blunt, and Midshipman Blair, were appointed to draft 

 resolutions befitting this melancholy occasion. 



The committee retired, in obedience to their instructions ; 

 and after a short recess, the meeting was called to order 

 again, and the chairman of the committee reported the follow- 

 ing resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That amid the toils and dangers which the 

 officers of this expedition have been called upon to encounter, 

 they could have incurred no deeper calamity than the untimely 

 death of their beloved coadjutors, Lieutenant Joseph A. Under- 

 wood and Midshipman Wilkes Henry. 



Resolved, That the loss of these gentlemen is most deeply 

 mourned, not only on account of their personal worth, but 

 from our sincere interest in the expedition, which has been 

 deprived of two of its most efficient officers. 



Resolved, That the energetic and persevering manner in 



