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 LIEU- 
TENANT-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 —CONDI- 
TIONS IMPOSED UPON THEM—CAPTIVE CHIEF LIBERATED — REMARKS ON THE 
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MURDERS, AND ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE PUNISH- 
MENT 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 — KANTAVU — ONO — PASSED 
MIDSHIPMEN’S ISLANDS— ASTROLABE REEF — ARRIVAL OF THE FLYING-FISH AT 
OVOLAU—LEVUKA—DEPARTURE OF THE FLYING-FISH FROM LEVUKA—VALLEY OF 
VOMNA—PASSAGE ROUND THE ISLAND OF OVOLAU—AMBAU—CASE OF THE AIMABLE 
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—EX- 
CURSION 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 INTER- 
PRETERS DISCHARGED—THEIR CHARACTER. 
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