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any such exchange while the schooner was within reach; that they 
could be supplied by her, and that he must hurry off, as he thought he 
had been long enough absent (having remained on shore about an 
hour) to purchase all they required, if the natives were disposed to 
trade. 
After this, Midshipman Henry asked, and Lieutenant Alden gave 
him permission to land in the canoe, and come off with Lieutenant 
Underwood. A few moments after, a small canoe came alongside 
Lieutenant Alden’s boat, and exchanged some words with the hostage, 
who displayed a little anxiety to return with them to the shore. As 
the canoe shoved off, he attempted to leave the boat, when Lieutenant 
Alden took him by the arm and directed him to sit down, giving him 
to understand that he must keep quiet. Lieutenant Emmons now 
joined, and the Leopard was ordered to drop in as near to the party 
on shore as possible. The tide had by this time risen sufficiently to 
allow her to go most of the way on the reef. After another half hour 
had expired, Jerome Davis, one of the boat’s crew, came off with a 
message from Lieutenant Underwood, that with another hatchet he 
could purchase all he required. 
The hatchet was given to Davis, who was directed to say to Lieu- 
tenant Underwood that Lieutenant Alden desired to see him without 
delay, and that he should come off as soon as possible with what 
he had. 
While Lieutenant Alden was relating the circumstances of the 
hostage’s desire to escape to Lieutenant Emmons, from the starboard 
side of the boat, the hostage jumped overboard from the larboard 
quarter, and made for the shore, in two and a half feet water, looking 
over his shoulder, so as to dodge at the flash if fired at. He took a 
direction different from that of the party on the beach, to divide the 
attention of those in the boats. Lieutenant Alden immediately levelled 
his musket at the hostage, who slackened his pace for a moment, and 
then continued to retreat. 
Midshipman Clark, who was ready to fire, was directed to fire over 
his head, which did not stop him. 
J. Clark testifies that Lieutenant Underwood, M’Kean, and himself, 
were standing near the beach, waiting the return of Davis, when they 
saw the chief escape from the boat, and heard the report of the musket. 
The old chief, who was standing near, immediately cried out that his 
son was killed, and ordered the natives to make fight. Upon this two 
of them seized upon Clark’s rifle, and tried to take it from him. One 
of these he stabbed in the breast with his sheath-knife; the other Mr 
Underwood struck on the head with the butt end of his pistol, upon 
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