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his mat on, the small shot did not penetrate it, and had no other 

 effect than farther to provoke and encourage them. I could not 

 observe the least fright it occasioned. Immediately upon this an 

 aree, armed with a pah'hoo'ah, attempted to stab me, but I foiled 

 his attempt by giving him a severe blow with the butt end of my 

 musket. Just at this time they began to throw stones, and one 

 of the marines was knocked down. The Captain then fired a ball and 

 killed a man. They now made a general attack, and the Captain 

 gave orders to the marines to fire, and afterwards called out, *' Take 

 to the boats." I fired just after the Captain, and loaded again 

 whilst the marines fired. Almost instantaneously upon my repeat- 

 ing the orders to take to the boats, I was knocked down by a stone, 

 and in rising received a stab with a pah'hoo'ah in the shoulder ; 

 my antagonist was upon the point of seconding his blow, when I 

 shot him dead. The business now was a most miserable scene of 

 confusion. The shouts and yells of the Indians far exceeded all 

 the noise I ever came in the way of. These fellows, instead of 

 retiring upon being fired upon, as Captain Cook and I believe most 

 people concluded they would, acted so very contrary a part, that 

 they never gave the soldiers time to re-load their pieces, but im- 

 mediately broke in upon and would have killed every man of them, 

 had not the boats by a smart fire kept them a little off, and picked 

 up those who were not too much wounded to reach them. After 

 being knocked down I saw no more of Captain Cook. All my 

 people I observed were totally vanquished, and endeavouring to 

 save their lives by getting to the boats. I therefore scrambled 

 as well as I could into the water, and made for the pinnace, which 

 I fortunately got hold of, but not before I received another blow 

 from a stone just above the temple, which, had not the pinnace 

 been very near, would have sent me to the bottom.' This is the 

 substance of Lieutenant Phillips' relation of this most unfortunate 

 event, to which I must add one circumstance more in justice to 

 his gallantry and attention. He had not been many minutes in 

 the boat, and of course scarcely recovered from the disagreeable 

 sensations occasioned by the pah'hoo'ah and stones, when he saw 

 one of his marines, who was but a very poor swimmer, and now 

 farther disabled by wounds, just upon the point of sinking. He 

 immediately jumped overboard again, caught the man by his hair, 

 and brought him to the boat. Far the major part of these 

 pah'hoo'ahs, with which many of the arees are now armed, and is 

 their most deadly weapon, were furnished them by ourselves. 

 The arees always seemed very desirous of them, and we troubled 

 ourselves very little about the use they proposed for them. Old 

 Terre'aboo got two from Captain Cook, and one from me, no longer 

 than yesterday evening. Some time before the attack was made, 

 intelligence was brought from the other side of the bay that the 

 boats there, under the command of Lieutenant Rickman, had killed 

 a man who was somewhat of an aree, which our people observed 

 in some degree to disconcert them, but this was some time before 

 they proceeded to violent measures. How the unhappy business 

 was brought about is very hard to determine ; to all appearance 

 it was by no means a premeditated plan. On the part of Terre'aboo, 

 if we consider his conduct throughout, we must acquit him of any 

 bad intentions. His son, the young Prince Ka'oo'ah, was sitting 



