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lamentations, among whom his wife was the most affected. Among 

 others, Pea, the chief of Apia, to whom, as has been stated, the prisoner 

 was related, was very much distressed and excited. Unable to vent 

 his rage and trouble in any other manner, he spent it upon the crowd 

 around him, striking in all directions with a huge stem of a cocoa-nut 

 leaf, by which he soon dispersed them. I felt a curiosity to see what 

 effect the sentence would have upon the prisoner. Death he would 

 have suffered without uttering a murmur ; but when he heard he was 

 to be taken from his native land, his firmness was overcome, and he 

 was observed to shed tears. He made no resistance to his being removed 

 on board ship, but after he got there he said he would rather be put to 

 death and buried in his own native island, than banished to a desert 

 one. 



After this difficult business was arranged, they brought their own 

 grievances before me, and particularly their complaints against the 

 American whalers. They said that some of them had evaded their 

 port-charges, and refused to pay for the provisions with which they 

 had been furnished. To this I replied that I was ready to indemnify 

 them for their losses, and should ask no other proof of them than their 

 own statement. They appeared struck with the unexpected liberality 

 of this offer ; but, after consultation, as if to manifest a corresponding 

 feeling, declined to accept it. I then informed them that their port- 

 charges for the squadron should be paid, which gave much satisfaction, 

 particularly to old Pea, who would derive the principal benefit from 

 them. The fono then broke up in great good humour. 



Pea and some of the other chiefs were very anxious to hear from 

 me what sort of an island Tuvai was to be put upon. They asked 

 many questions in relation to it, and always among the first, whether 

 there would be any cocoa-nut trees, Nature's first and best gift to them, 

 upon it. Wishing to make the intended punishment as terrible as 

 possible to them, I always replied that there would be none whatever. 



After Tuvai was again on board ship, old Pea paid him a visit, in 

 the course of which the former melted into tears, howled bitterly, and 

 begged that he might be taken on shore to be put to death, in order 

 that his body might be buried in his native soil. It appeared from 

 information that we received, that this was a part of a concerted plan 

 to obtain a farther commutation of his sentence, and that this affecting 

 interview was got up in order to excite our sympathies. Finding it 

 did not produce the desired effect, old Pea went about the ship with a 

 doleful visage, exclaiming, " Eoloisa-ia-tu Tuvai" — have compassion 

 on Tuvai. 



I was in hopes to find the surveys of Upolu nearly, if not quite 



