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precaution to erase all marks that might indicate where these unfortu- 
nate gentlemen were interred. I felt as if to refrain from marking the 
spot where they were laid, deprived us of one of the consolations that 
alleviate the loss of a relative and friend, but was relieved when it oc- 
curred to me to fix a more enduring mark on that place, by naming 
the island after my nephew, “ Henry,” and the pretty cluster of which 
it forms one, ‘‘ Underwood Group.” 
Places remote from the grave were now more disturbed by footsteps 
and digging than the grave itself, and our tracks were obliterated from 
the sand, leaves being thrown about to obscure all indications that 
might lead the wary savage to the resting-place of the dead. 
We wandered about the beach a short time, after which we em- 
barked and weighed our anchor to return to Malolo. Shortly after, we 
discovered the Porpoise entering the Malolo Passage, with whom we 
soon joined company, and anchored again in the bay on the east side 
of Malolo before dark. 
Preparations were now actively commenced to punish the actors in 
this foul deed ; the arms were prepared, and the parties duly organized 
in the course of the night. 
Upon the island there are two towns, Sualib and Arro. The former 
was on the southwest side, and the residence of the principal actors in 
the massacre. Upon this I intended to inflict the heaviest blow. The 
latter, whose inhabitants had also taken a part in the tragedy, and 
whose unprovoked hostility had been exhibited by their firing upon the 
boats from the mangrove-bushes, I determined to burn to the ground. 
It was also necessary to be prepared upon the water to prevent any at- 
tempt at escape, or the more desperate effort to capture the vessels, 
necessarily left under a feeble guard. ‘The two latter objects were con- 
nected, and for this purpose I kept under my own immediate com- 
mand, my gig, the first cutters of the Vincennes and Peacock, under 
Lieutenants Alden and Emmons, and the tender’s boat, under Midship- 
man Clark. 
The party which was to land and attack Sualib, was placed under 
the orders of Lieutenant-Commandant Ringgold. It was composed 
of seventy officers and men, of the crews of the Porpoise and tender, 
with a few men from the boats, and was arranged in three divisions, 
under Lieutenant-Commandant Ringgold himself, Lieutenants Johnson 
and Maury. To the party were also attached Lieutenant North, 
Passed Midshipmen Sinclair and Eld, with Assistant-Surgeon Holmes 
and Mr. Agate. 
The party had orders* after landing, to move upon Sualib, destroy- 
* For orders, see Appendix XIII. 
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