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village boiling with rage, and in rather a peremptory tone 

 insisted on immediate hostilities. My aim was to render 

 all the tribes subservient to my views. I then thought it 

 necessary to check the manner of Mouina, lest it might 

 become contagions, and I should find a difficulty in keeping 

 them in that subjugation by which only we could render 

 ourselves secure. I told him, therefore, that I did not 

 need his advice, and that I should go to war or make peace 

 when I thought proper, without consulting him ; that it was 

 only necessary that he should do as I directed him, and 

 every thing must be left to my management. I further 

 told him to leave our village until he could learn to con- 

 'duct himself more respectfully. He walked off a few 

 paces among the crowd, then turning round, coolly said, he 

 believed 1 was a great coward. Forgetting that this was 

 the observation of a mere Indian, I seized a musket and 

 pursued him ; he retreated among the crowd, and on my 

 approaching him, presenting the musket and threatening 

 him with destruction, on a repetition of such expressions, 

 terror was marked on his countenance. I directed him 

 immediately to leave the enclosure, and never presume to 

 enter it again. 



I now inquired of Gattanewa the number of war canoes 

 which he could equip and man ; he informed me ten, and 

 that each would carrj about thirty men, and that the Hap- 

 pahs could equip an equal number of equal size ; he told me 

 it would be six days before they could be put together and 

 got in readiness ; but if I wished it, his people should set 

 about it immediately. I directed them to do so, and de- 

 spatched a messenger to the Happahs directing them to pre- 

 pare their war canoes to be in readiness to go to war with the 

 Typees, and await my further orders. I gave them as well 

 as the Taeehsto understand, that it was my intention to 

 attack them both by sea and by land, and that I should 

 send a large body of men in boats, and a ship to protect 

 the landing of them and the war canoes, and that the re- 

 mainder of the warriors of both tribes must proceed by 

 land to attack them in the part where they were most as- 

 sailable. I had hoped now to terrify the Typees by the 

 formidable armament which was coming against them, and 

 was glad to fix on some distant period for the commence- 

 ment of hostilities, anxious to put them off as long aspos- 



