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same way. History records also otlier calamities of like kind in 

 the same gronp of islands. 



Captain Carteret, in August, 1767, more than a century before 

 the visit of the " Pearl," experienced the very same hostility and 

 treachery which distinguished the fate of Bishop Patteson and 

 Commodore Groodenough. In the 4th chapter of his Voyage, he 

 gives an " Account of the Discovery of Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 with a description of them, their Inhabitants, and of what 

 happened at Egmont Island." The latter " certainly is," he says, 

 " the same to which the Spaniards have given the name of Santa 

 Cruz, as appears by the accounts which the writers have given of it." 



If we compare the statements published respecting the deaths 

 of the Bishop and the Commodore with Carteret's statements, we 

 shall find the same circumstances in each, — too great confidence in 

 the natives, and the greatest jealousy and treacherous conduct on 

 the part of the latter. Bishop Patteson laid great stress, in his 

 " Memorial on the South Sea Labour Traffic," on the cause of evil 

 and death in the Pacific, and quotes the testimony of the com- 

 mander of a whaling ship to the same efi'ect. 



The latter says what the Bishop confirms : — '' The natives of 

 these islands would come ofi" in former years, bringing such articles 

 of trade as their islands afford, for which we paid them with 

 hatchets, tobacco, fish-hooks, &c. They trusted us and we trusted 

 them. At times our decks were crowded. This, when slavery 

 commenced, was all to the slaver's advantage, for the natives were 

 easily enticed below, the hatches put on, and the vessel was off*. 

 Now no natives come on board the whale-ship, and we in our turn 

 dare not land. Again, we used to carry people from one island 

 to another when they wished it, and they would give us hogs 

 and other articles. This also has been taken advantage of, and 

 the natives carried into slavery instead of home. Should we be 

 wrecked our lives must go for those that have been stolen, and 

 the natives will be condemned and called blood-thirsty, &c., and 

 yet what have the natives done? Not certainly right, but no 

 more than civilized people have done in many cases. I hear they 

 use your name" (i.e., the. Bishop's) "to decoy natives from tlieir 



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