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In December, the Currency Lass again visited Levuka, when Hough- 
ton, the owner, bought of Seru the island of Wakaia. 
In January, Seru sent a party to Naloa, to create a disturbance 
among the people of Muthuata. This party secretly informed the old 
king, Tui Muthuata, that the chief Gingi was conspiring to kill him, 
and offered him assistance, which he gladly accepted. In the night 
they landed at Muthuata, and, with the king’s party, killed Gingi and 
about ninety of his followers. When this massacre was finished, the 
Ambau people returned home, and there found that the king of Rewa 
and his brother had quarrelled, and that the brother had fled to Ambau 
for protection. 
In February, the Ambau people fitted out another expedition against 
Muthuata, now much weakened by the late massacre. The king 
being absent, they burnt his town, killing and taking prisoners many 
of his people. They also burnt the town of Soulabe, and returned to 
Ambau. During their absence, Wai-nue, the chief who had fled to 
Somu-somu, had bought over the fishing people on the Verata shore, 
who attacked Ambau and killed five of its people, and took their bodies 
to Somu-somu. This caused the war to break out anew between these 
two districts. 
The Ambau people, in March, sought revenge on the fishermen, 
but their expedition proved unsuccessful. During their absence, one 
of Tanoa’s queens had burnt Ambau. They then were obliged to 
rebuild it, but prepared for another expedition. 
In April, Paddy Connel died on Ambatiki, without having any more 
issue. 
The chief of Viwa, Namosimalua, whose town Captain D’Urville, 
of the French Expedition, had destroyed, and who had since pretended 
to turn Christian, and who was, with his nephew, the person who 
instigated the taking of the French brig Josephine, and the massacre 
of her captain and crew, affected to quarrel with Ambau. The cause 
of the dispute was the wife of the Viwa chief. He then sent to the 
fishermen of Verata to engage their assistance against Ambau, which 
was most readily granted. This chief and Seru kept up the semblance 
of great enmity, but planned the destruction of the fishermen, of whom 
they had both become jealous. ‘The day the two parties met, on the 
signal for the fight being given, the Viwa and Ambau forces fell upon 
the unsuspecting fishermen, and massacred one hundred and eighty 
of them. They, however, made a most resolute resistance, and 
killed about seventy of their murderers. In July, Ambau was again 
rebuilt. 
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