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CHAPTEE XI. 



TANNA— NEW EEBBIBES. 



(August 10 to 13.) 



Uea Harbour — Useless Negotiations with offending Chiefs — Bombardment — 

 Men landed and Property destroyed — Incidents of the Attack — Effect 

 produced on the Enemy — Description of the Island— Climate and Diseases 

 — Disposition of the People — Morality — Usages — Creeds — Government — 

 Marum or Council House — Fruitless Efforts of the Missionaries — Languages 

 — Volcano of Asur and its Environs — Productions and Exports. 



On August 10, at daybreak, the ' Cura^oa ' stood out from 

 Anatom on her way to Port Eesolution Bay, in the isle of 

 Tanna, about forty-five miles distant, where we anchored 

 the same day at a quarter past one p.m. The mission brig 

 ' Dayspring ' was in company with us. In our course we 

 passed, first, the island of Fotuna, or Erronan, flat and 

 square-shaped, and the low island of Niua (the native name), 

 or Imraer, which, according to Captain Erskine,^ is placed 

 in all tlie charts closer to Tanna than it really is. The 

 passage into tlie harbour is narrow, and on the west side 

 towers an active volcano, constantly sending forth its jets of 

 fire, smoke, and lava, being, as it were, the avant garde of 

 lofty hills ranging over the island, and bright with verdure. 

 Next morning early the ship was in busy preparation for 

 inflicting capital or other punishment on the refractory 



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