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the night. They caught some crabs, and climbed some trees 
for cocoa-nuts, as they had always been accustomed to do, 
when the whites who had purchased permission to reside upon 
the island rushed out and fired upon them; the natives imme- 
diately fled, leaving one canoe behind. This canoe, with the 
property in it, was handed over to me by Mr. Allen Dolittle, 
when I was residing at Nukubalawu, to return to Kuruduadua. 
When I took it to the chief, he was not at all displeased at his 
people having been driven away, and said that if they again 
annoyed the white residents at Namuka he would himself club 
them. 
“ Some time after this, Tui Solia was knocked down by one of 
the whites on Namuka. Tui Solia was at this time at war with 
Kurnduadua. The latter heard, through a deserter, that Tui 
Solia intended to avenge the insult offered to him by plundering 
Namuka, and put the whites on their guard. He could not 
protect them there, as it was not in his territory, and he was at 
enmity with Tui Solia’s tribe. He told the whites to remove 
at once to Nukubalawu, into his dominions, where he would 
protect them from every harm. He was evidently very anxious 
to secure the whites from injury. Thus, so far from being privy 
to the attack, he endeavoured to save the whites. 
“T went at once to Namuka to warn the whites, and told them 
of Kuruduadua’s invitation to remove for protection to Nuku- 
balawu, and offered them the use of my boat, which they de- 
clined. Iwas then sent for by Mr. Saunders, to remove him 
from Wai Turaga to a vessel at Bau in which he had taken 
his passage. 
“Before I returned, the attack was made on Namuka, the 
property plundered and the white men carried prisoners to 
Numulo, a small town on the mainland, which belonged to Tui 
Solia. As soon as I heard this, I hastened to Nukubalawu and 
met there Mr. A. Dolittle. Finding that nothing had been 
done towards the rescue of the prisoners, I sent for Kuruduadua, 
and giving him an axe, requested him to undertake their de- 
