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Ambau people from getting a sight of them, in which case they would 
all be taken from him. 
On the 25th of June, as I was employed surveying, having David 
Whippy in the boat with me, it being a remarkably clear day, and 
the peaks on the far-distant islands very conspicuous, I proposed to 
Whippy to ascend an almost perpendicular rock, some eighty feet high, 
on the north end of Ovolau, which we had named Underwood Tower. 
David seemed to hesitate, and said it was beyond the boundary of Tui 
Levuka’s authority ; but seeing me anxious, he said he thought it might 
be done. I accordingly landed at some distance from its base. There 
were no natives in sight at the time. After a hard scramble we 
reached the top, which was about ten feet square, with the instruments. 
Here I was soon engaged in my occupation, and took no note of what 
was passing around me, except that after a time I observed several 
natives sitting around, and was a little annoyed by David fidgeting 
about me. Finally, I got through all that I desired, and now found the 
cause of the anxiety felt by David. A number of natives had collected, 
and he thought, to use the expression of white men, they were after 
mischief. He at once ordered them to go beyond club distance, and 
with three men, Whippy, and myself, well armed, passed down safely 
to the boat, where we found the rest of the crew, with their arms in 
their hands, and under no small anxiety to see us safely back. 
Whippy’s great care was to get me out of the reach of accident; and 
he told me after we shoved off, that he never expected to get to the 
boat without killing some of these rascals. He expected the attack on 
the rock, and thought they would have endeavoured to throw me 
headlong down. ‘This incident will serve to show how little these 
natives are to be trusted at any time, and how unaware one may be 
of the danger that is at all times impending. 
The Rev. Messrs. Cargill and Hunt reached Levuka from Rewa. 
Mr. Hunt was to remain with me until an opportunity offered in our 
surveying operations to send him to Somu-somu. Mr. Cargill offered 
me every information in his power relative to the group, and I here 
take occasion to acknowledge his liberality in this respect, as well as 
that of the rest of the missionaries. Mr. Cargill was about to return 
to England, having recently lost his wife, and been left with five 
young children. For this purpose, he intended proceeding to Sydney 
in the Currency Lass. 
Ngaraningiou, the brother of Vendovi, who, it will be recollected, 
played so important a part in his capture, visited the ship. He is a 
remarkably fine-looking chief. He requested that his likeness might 
be taken, and, to his great delight, after it was finished, it was pre- 
