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you find it impossible, you will then make signal No. 5. On your 
coming in sight, our attack will begin, which you will have notice of 
from the schooner’s guns. 
The disposition of your force (sixty men) is left to your own judg- 
ment; but great care is to be taken that your men are well arranged 
in divisions, to support each other, and that they are not suffered to 
stray from their divisions. Strict orders must be given that their am- 
munition is not wasted, and that their fire is reserved for the natives. 
No woman or child is, on any account, to be hurt, unless it should be 
for the preservation of life of your party; but every man or native 
capable of using a club, or stone, is to be destroyed. This you will 
make all understand before they leave the brig. 
Your whole force must be ready by eight o’clock to-morrow 
morning. 
The strictest injunctions will be given that all orders are executed 
strictly and with promptness, and in silence, and no confusion suffered 
to take place. 
You will destroy every kind of plantation. 
Respectfully, your obedient servant, 
Cuartes WitkEs, 
Commanding Exploring Expedition. 
Lirut. Com. C. Rinacorp, 
U.S. Brig Porpoise. 
U.S. Brig Porpoise, 
Isle of Malolo, July 26th, 1840. 
Sir,— 
In compliance with your instructions of this day, I landed on the 
isle with a force of sixty men, arranged in three equal divisions, taking 
the centre myself, with Lieutenants Johnson and Maury on my right 
and left, and proceeded without delay to the accomplishment of your 
orders. 
Mv first object was to endeavour to dislodge the natives who had 
assembled in considerable numbers on the hill-tops, armed, and evinc- 
ing signs of hostility. I employed Lieutenant Maury in the destruction 
of extensive plantations on the left, while Lieutenant Johnson proceeded 
on the right towards the hills. Our movements could not be concealed 
from the natives, owing to the surface of the isle being free from under- | 
growth and trees, and our approach of course discovered in time for 
them to flee to more remote and distant peaks. 
I at once resolved to proceed forthwith to the attack of the village, 
calling the two divisions to my assistance, and set forth in the direc- 
tion of it, about a mile distant. I soon discovered the natives were 
