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vi CONTENTS. 



Festivities — Learning to walk — Natural Productions of the Island — The 

 Schooner Henry, Captain Johnson, their probable Fate — The Snares — Stew- 

 art's Isle, or South Cape of New-Zealand — Molyneux's Harbour — Intercourse 

 with the Natives of New-Zealand . . . . * 352 



CHAPTER III. 



New-Zealand — Intercourse with the Natives — Their Habitations, Apparel, Work- 

 ing tools, and Weapons — Eating Human Flesh — Face of the Country — Banks's 

 Peninsula — Cook's Cape, Harbour, and Strait — Visit from the Natives — Women 

 an Article of Traffic — East Cape — Mercury Bay — Great Utility of Missionaries — 

 Bay of Islands — Royal Visiters — Visit to the Mission — Orderly Arrangement — 

 Sail to the North — The New-Hebrides — Hope Island — Steer to the West — 

 New Discoveries anticipated 365 



CHAPTER IV. 



New Discoveries — Westervelt's Group — An ominous Dream — A perilous Situa 

 tion — Extricated by a dexterous nautical Manoeuvre — Bergh's Group discovered 

 — Livingston's Island — Arrive at Manilla — Philippine Islands — Luconia — 

 City and Bay of Manilla— A Hint to the Ladies 376 



CHAPTER V. 



Sail from Manilla for the Feejee Islands — Discover Skiddy's Shoal — Islands "of 

 Los Matires — Visit Bergh's Group — Discover Skiddy's Group — Visit Young 

 William's Group — Interview with the Natives — Intended Treachery defeated — 

 Visit Monteverdeson's Islands — Description of the Natives — Indications of 

 Hostilities — An Attempt to board the Antarctic — Continuation of the Voyage 

 — Discovery of the Massacre Islands — Friendly Disposition of the Natives 387 



CHAPTER VI. 



Massacre Islands — Commence building a House — A Garden planted — Friendship 

 of Henneen, the Island Chief — Friendly Disposition of the Natives — Precau- 

 tions against Surprise — Symptoms of Perfidy, Duplicity, and Dissimulation — 

 Drawn into an Ambuscade — Disarm a Host — Amity and Confidence restored — 

 Specious but hollow Professions of Good- will — The Alarm — The Massacre — 

 The Battle — The Rescue — Cannibalism — Deplorable Situation of the Survivors 

 — Sail from the Islands — Arrive at Manilla 403 



CHAPTER VII. 



Sail from Manilla for the Massacre Islands — The Bay and Town of Taal — Port 

 and Town of St. Joseph's — Ladrone Islands — Arrive at Bergh's Group — 

 Friendship of the Natives — Their Canoes, Fishing Implements, &c. — Beauty 

 of the Women — Strength and Agility of the Men — Theological Notions — 

 Marriages, Deaths, Wars, &c. — Description of their Weapons, Houses, and Vil- 

 lages — Domestic Arrangements — Fertility and Capabilities of the Soil — Im- 

 portance of this Discovery — Equipments necessary for a Voyage to these 

 Islands — Depart for the Massacre Islands 416 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Monteverdeson's Group — Treachery of the Natives — Attack on the Antarctic re- 

 pulsed — Wholesome Chastisement — Arrive at the Massacre Islands — Assailed 

 by the Cannibals, who are repulsed with Loss — Fire upon the Town — Beneficial 

 Result — Leonard Shaw, supposed to have fallen in the general Massacre, 

 alive, and liberated from a horrid Slavery — Excitement of the Crew — Purchase 

 of an Island — A Castle in the Air — Suspicious Movements — A brief Sketch of 

 the Sufferings of Leonard Shaw, during a Captivity of more than Fifteen Weeks 

 among the Cannibals 435 



