434 APPENDIX. 
Number of casks: R. H., 1 to 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 
31, 32, 33, and 34,—twenty-nine casks. 31 and 32 empty. 
COPY. 
Fetoa, August 3d, 1840. 
Turs is to certify, that the twenty-seven casks of oil, and two empty 
casks, left on the northwest side of Turtle Island, marked H. 1 to 16, ° 
17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, have been sold by us 
to Captain C. B. Wilson, of schooner Currency Lass, and have re- 
ceived full payment for the same. 
On demand, we promise to deliver the said oil and casks to the 
said Charles B. Wilson, and to no other person whatever, native or 
foreigner. In the absence of Charles B. Wilson, we also promise to 
look after the oil, and prevent the natives or foreigners from stealing 
the said oil, or damaging the casks which contain said oil, and to 
erect a house over it, for which we have also received payment. We 
also promise to feed and protect Joseph Rees, who remains ashore 
with the oil. In testimony of which we set our hands. 
Faxa Ito Tonea, his x mark. 
Maraxa Laxempa, “ xX 
Davina Pauta, on a 
Witness—James Batti. 
X X. 
Gipron Situ, a native of Bath, State of Massachusetts, United 
States, left the ship Harold, whaler, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 
reported to have been murdered at or near Saluafata, Upolu, Navi- 
gator Islands, on Saturday evening, eleventh of July, one thousand 
eight hundred and forty, between the hours of seven and sight. 
John Maitland, a native of Pernambuco, Brazil, having been duly 
sworn, stated, that a few days after G. Smith landed, (about the 1st 
of May,) he went to live with Palasi, in the village of Fatua, where 
he lived with a woman belonging to the family of Palasi. After a 
few weeks, he reported to J. Maitland that the family did not use him 
well. Maitland accordingly went with him, and stated to the family 
of Palasi, that they should have a monkey-jacket (belonging to de- 
ceased, and which they much desired), on condition of their behaving 
kindly to him. Three nights previous to the murder, Palasi’s family, 
