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severe punishment, I had probably effected the desirable end of pre- 
venting any further bloodshed. 
Early on the morning of the 28th, the tender and brig got under 
way, and anchored off the town of Arro, where the natives, to the 
number of seventy, came down to the beach, with every appearance 
of humility, to carry into effect the terms we had made with them. 
The water-bags and breakers were given to them to fill and bring to 
the beach for the boats. They found this very hard work, and often 
expressed themselves to the interpreters, who were with the officers at- 
tending to the duty, that it would have been as well for them to have 
been killed in battle as to die of hard work. They toiled thus until 
nearly sunset, and procured about three thousand gallons of water for 
us. They also brought twelve good-sized pigs for the crews, some 
yams, and about three thousand cocoa-nuts. 
Among the articles restored, was the silver watch of Lieutenant Un- 
derwood, almost entirely melted up, and a piece of the eye-glass of 
Midshipman Henry. 
When I went on shore, I saw the chief and about twenty of the old 
men, who were not able to take part in the work. I had a long talk 
with them, through the interpreter, and explained to them that they had 
brought this trouble upon themselves. I pointed out, particularly, that 
the blow had fallen upon the town of Arro, as well as upon that of 
Sualib, because its inhabitants had fired at the boats from the man- 
grove-bushes, which was wrong; and if it occurred again, or they 
ever molested the Papalangis, they would meet with exemplary punish- 
ment. They all listened with great attention, and said it should never 
occur again, and that when any Papalangis came to their island, they 
would do every thing for them, and treat them as friends and children. 
At evening, I had the chief who was our prisoner brought up and 
liberated. He had now, from the death of the one at Sualib, become 
the highest chief of the island. I gave him good advice, and assured 
him, that if he allowed any white man to be injured, he would sooner 
or later be punished. He promised me, that as long as he lived they 
should always be treated as friends and children; that he would be the 
first to befriend them; that he now considered the island as belonging 
to the Papalangis; that he had noted all that I had said; that it was 
good, and he would be very careful to observe it; that he would, if he 
had no canoe, swim off to the white people’s ships to do them all the 
service in his power; and that his people should do so also. He was 
then, with the natives who had been captured, put on shore. When 
they landed, the whole population were heard crying and wailing over 
him at his return. 
