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of opposing their arms to ours, and to convince him of the 

 superiority of muskets, I fired at a tree some distance off ; 

 the hall penetrated the middle of it, about the height of a 

 man's heart. ] then called on all the warriors to try their 

 spears and slings at the same object; but they all shook 

 their heads, as an acknowledgment of the inferiority of 

 their weapons. The Happah was much astonished at the 

 correctness with which we fired, and said he should pro- 

 ceed to hasten his brethren to a reconciliation. I gave 

 him a white handkerchief, which was attached to a spear, 

 and informed him the bearer of that should be respected. 

 On my return to the camp, I found a large supply of 

 hogs, cocoa-nuts, bananas, bread-fruit, tarra, and sugar- 

 cane, with several roots of kava, partly the plunder of the 

 Happahs, but chiefly the contributions of the tribes of 

 Tieuhoy. 



