106 A MISSION TO VITI. 
by a chief then at war with him. Long after peace 
had been re-established Kuruduadua became by ex- 
‘change the owner of some boxes that had been taken 
from Namuka, by the attacking party. Danford saw the 
danger of purchasing property thus taken, and advised 
Kuraduadua to get rid of it. However, his counsels 
were unheeded, and when at a future time the boxes were 
actually found in Kuruduadua’s possession, the Ame- 
rican captain sent to punish the Namuka attack, fixed 
upon him, as one of the guilty party, and burned Navua, 
then full of valuable property of all sorts, honestly 
acquired from white traders. Several large 32-pound 
shots were knocking about the town, and served the 
children as playthings, whilst the ruins of fine large 
houses were still to be seen. Kuruduadua handed us 
a paper from his desk, drawn up by a white trader 
familiar with the whole affair, which he begged might 
be made known to our countrymen, in order to acquaint 
them with the real facts of the case. 
*“ Ovatav, November 27th, 1856. 
“ Being acquainted with many circumstances connected with 
the attack upon Namuka, and convinced that great injustice 
has been done to the chief Kuruduadua, living at Navua, by 
his being punished as an accessory to that act, I beg to lay 
before you the true particulars of the case as they came under 
my observation. 
“Tt has been stated that Kuruduadua was a party to the attack 
upon Namuka, because some of his people had been some time 
before driven away from that place by the whites. The facts 
were these:—Some canoes belonging to Kuruduadua’s tribe, 
as was their custom when voyaging, put into Namuka to spend 
