CHAPTER IX. 



CONTENTS. 



PARTICULARS OF THE MURDERS AT MALOLO— BURIAL OF LIEUTENANT UNDERWOOD 

 AND MIDSHIPMAN HENRY — PREPARATIONS FOR THE ATTACK ON MALOLO — CANOES 

 INTERCEPTED — OPERATIONS OF THE BOATS — ARRO BURNT — OPERATIONS OF LIEU- 

 TENANT-COMMANDANT RINGGOLD— FORTIFICATIONS OF SUALIB— ATTACK UPON SUALIB 

 — SUALIB SET ON FIRE, AND COMPLETELY DESTROYED — RETURN OF LIEUTENANT- 

 COMMANDANT RINGGOLD'S DIVISIONS — LIEUTENANT EMMONS'S ACTION WITH FIVE 

 CANOES — OVERTURES OF THE NATIVES FOR PEACE — MESSAGE TO THE NATIVES- 

 SECOND LANDING ON MALOLO — THE NATIVES BEG FOR MERCY — CONDITIONS IMPOSED 

 UPON THEM— CAPTIVE CHIEF LIBERATED-REMARKS ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE 

 MURDERS, AND ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUNISHMENT INFLICTED ON MALOLO 

 — THE BOATS SENT BACK TO THE SHIPS— THE FLYING-FISH AND PORPOISE SAIL FROM 

 MALOLO— NAVULA REEF— NAVULA PASSAGE— THE PORPOISE DETACHED TO OVOLAU— 

 VATULELE — KANT AVU — ONO — PASSED MIDSHIPMEN'S ISLANDS — ASTROLABE REEF — 

 ARRIVAL OF THE FLYING-FISH AT OVOLAU— LEVUKA— DEPARTURE OF THE FLYING-FISH 

 FROM LEVUKA — VALLEY OF VOONA — PASSAGE ROUND THE ISLAND OF OVOLAU— 

 AMBAU— CASE OF THE AIM ABLE JOSEPHINE— OF THE BRIG SIR DAVID OGILBY— CAUTION 

 TO VESSELS VISITING AMBAU— MOTURIKI PASSAGE — WAR THREATENED BETWEEN 

 SOMU-SOMU AND AMBAU— INTERFERENCE ON BEHALF OF THE MISSIONARIES— ORATOR 

 OF THE KING OF SOMU-SOMU— MANNER OF TRADING— UPPER TOWN OF SOMU-SOMU— 

 EXHIBITION OF ROCKETS — NEWS OF CAPTAIN CROKER'S ATTACK ON THE HEATHEN 

 OF TONGA, AND OF THE LOSS OF HIS LIFE— DEPARTURE FROM SOMU-SOMU— CHICOBEA 

 —MALI — REUNION OF THE SQUADRON — SEPARATE OPERATIONS OF CAPTAIN HUDSON 

 —EXCURSION OF DR. PICKERING AND MR. BRACKENRIDGE — THE TWO CHIEFS OF 

 SUALIB— JUGGLERY OF A PRIEST— CAPTAIN HUDSON DEMANDS A DESERTER— RETURN 

 OF THE SON OF THE KING OF MUTHUATA— NALOA BAY— SURVEY OF THE HARBOUR OF 

 MUTHUATA— PROCEEDINGS OF A MEETING OF OFFICERS— RECOVERY OF A DESERTER- 

 ARRIVAL OF THE KAI-VITI AT MUTHUATA— WHALE-SHIP TRITON— JOY OF THE KING OF 

 MUTHUATA AT THE DEPARTURE OF THE SHIPS— NATIVE PUNISHED FOR THEFT BY 

 THE KING— SEPARATE OPERATIONS OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDANT RINGGOLD— BIVA— 

 HUDSON ISLES— PREPARATIONS FOR GOING TO SEA— THE INTERPRETERS DISCHARGED— 

 THEIR CHARACTER. 



