310 MALOLO. 
the Expedition, while arduously engaged in the performance of their 
public duty. (Signed) Witu1am L. Hunson, 
Feejee Islands, July 31st, 1840, Commanding U. S. Ship Peacock. 
Subsequently to this, on the 8th of October, a meeting of the officers 
was held on board the Peacock, at which Captain W. L. Hudson was 
called to the chair, and Lieutenant R. E. Johnson appointed secretary. 
The chair announced that the object of the meeting was to obtain a 
just expression of feeling in relation to the death of Lieutenant Joseph 
A. Underwood and Midshipman Wilkes Henry, who on the 24th of 
July last were treacherously killed by the natives of Malolo. On 
motion, a committee, consisting of Lieutenant Johnson, Dr. Palmer, Mr. 
Rich, (botanist,) Passed Midshipman Blunt, and Midshipman Blair were 
appointed to draft resolutions befitting this melancholy occasion. 
The committee, in obedience to their instructions, reported the 
following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. 
Resolved, That amid the toils and dangers which the officers of 
this Expedition have been called upon to encounter, they could have 
incurred no deeper calamity than the untimely death of their beloved 
coadjutors, Lieutenant Joseph A. Underwood and Midshipman Wilkes 
Henry. 
Resolved, That the loss of these gentlemen is most deeply mourned, 
not only on account of their personal worth, but from our sincere 
interest in the Expedition, which has thus been deprived of two most 
efficient officers. 
Resolved, That the energetic and persevering manner in which the 
lamented dead performed all duties, however arduous, offered an 
example worthy our emulation, and that the strongest terms of sym- 
pathy with their friends at home, are inadequate to the expression of 
our regrets. 
Resolved, That as a mark of affection and respect for our lost 
associates, we cause a monument, designed among ourselves, to be 
erected to their memory, in the cemetery at Mount Auburn. 
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the be- 
reaved relations of Lieutenant Underwood and Midshipman Henry. 
It was further resolved, that a committee of nine persons be appointed 
to carry the foregoing resolutions into effect, and that the committee 
consist of the following gentlemen: Captain W. L. Hudson, Lieu- 
tenants James Alden and Case, Dr. J. C. Palmer, T. R. Peale, (orni- 
thologist,) Passed Midshipman S. Blunt, Purser W. Spieden, Midship- 
men G. W. Clark and J. Blair. 
Resolved, That the sum of two thousand dollars be appropriated for 
