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APPENDIX. 
Landed at a missionary’s house, and was informed by the mis¬ 
sionary (Mr. Hardy) that the chief Pea had landed upon Savaii, 
several miles from his house, about the time I appeared off Manono. 
The news of our affair at Saluafata was known here soon after it 
took place, which shows how fast information travels among these 
people, and will in a measure account for the unfavourable result of 
my cruise. 
During this day it came on to blow a gale from the northward; got 
the second cutter on board, and laid to, under snug sail, for the follow¬ 
ing days, drifting to the northward and eastward. 
March 3d. Gale abating; stood for the northeast end of Savaii, and 
during the 4th and 5th, was employed cruising the island around, 
sometimes so close as to make it necessary to sweep the schooner off, 
without finding any harbours. However, being off a place called 
Salelonga, on the southeast end of Savaii, where there is a harbour 
reported to exist by the missionaries, I pulled in to examine for the 
same, and after sounding out the various passages leading into the 
reef, found but two deep enough to admit a ship, and these so crooked 
and narrow as to make it impracticable to enter otherwise than by 
warping, and the space inside too small to allow a ship to swing, with 
a safe scope, at her anchor. Anchorage can, however, be obtained on 
sandy bottom in from ten to eighteen fathoms water, close to the outer 
entrance, in a comparatively sheltered berth, owing to the proximity 
of Upolu, Manono, Apolima, and their surrounding reefs. 
Very respectfully, 
George F. Emmons, 
Lieutenant. 
Captain Wm. L. Hudson, 
U. S. Ship Peacock. 
III. 
Sir,— 
U. S. Ship Peacock, 
Drummond’s Island, 
April 9th, 1841. 
You will take charge of the boat expedition against the town of 
Utiroa, where John Anderson has been seized and detained by the 
natives. Your party will be formed into three divisions. Lieutenant 
Emmons, assisted by Passed Midshipman Harrison, will take charge 
of the first division; Lieutenant Perry, assisted by Passed Midshipman 
Davis, will take charge of the second; and Lieutenant De Haven, 
assisted by Mr. Freeman (sail-maker), will take charge of the third 
