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>rANNER9 received m the mod friendly, generous, and cordial manner.,; 



even the attack made upon Captain Wallis, I cannot fuppofe to 

 have been concerted, unlefs fome previous infult or offence, had 

 -been given, perhaps unknowingly, by our people, which roufed 



^their revenge, and as they were unacquainted with the effeds of 



our fire-arms, they thought perhaps, they might venture an attack 

 aipona fet of men, who had offended or infulted them; and as 

 the Britiih ^people did not then underffand their language, they 



poffibly.might have demanded redrefs and fatisfadion for it, which, 

 not being complied with, on account of the difference and igno- 

 rance of the -language, they thought themfelves in the right to 



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rretaliate the injury upon them; though this unlucky attempt. 



proved fatal to 



of their 



breth 



ren. 



Wh 



erever we came. 



though the inhabitants had not the leafl idea of the execution our 



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fire arms were capable of making, they behaved very friendly 

 ;to wards us : nay, after we had killed a man at the Marquefas, 

 ^rievoufly wounded one at Eaffer-ifland, hooked a third with a 

 =boat-hook at Tonga-tabu, wounded one at Namocka, another 

 -at Mallicollo, and killed another at Tanna: the feveral inhabitants 

 .behaved in a civil ai\4 harmlefs manner to us, though they might 



have taken ample 



revenge, by cutting off our 



ffragling parties; 



all which, in my opinion, fufficiently effabliili the friendly dif- 

 ..-DoStion of thefe feveral nations. 



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