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speak ; he placed both my hands on his nead, rested 

 his forehead on my knees, and after a short pause, raising 

 himself, placed his hands on my breast, exclaimed, Gattane- 

 wa ! and then on his own, said, Opotee.to remind me we 

 had exchanged names. 



When I had reached the summit of the mountain, I 

 stopped to contemplate that valley which, in the mornings 

 we had viewed in all its beauty, the scene of abundance 

 and happiness. A long line of smoking ruins now marked 

 our traces from one end to the other ; the opposite hills 

 were covered with the unhappy fugitives, and the whole 

 presented a scene of desolation and horror. Unhappy 

 and heroic people, the victims of your own courage and 

 mistaken pride. While the instruments of your own pun- 

 ishment shed the tears of pity over your misfortunes, thou- 

 sands of your countrymen (nay, brethren of the same fa- 

 mily) triumphed in your distresses! 



I shall not fatigue myself or the reader by a longer ac- 

 count of this expedition. We spent the night with the 

 Happahs, who supplied us most abundantly, and next morn- 

 ing, at daylight, started for Madison's Ville, where we 

 arrived about eight o'clock, after an absence of three 

 nights and two days, during which time we marched up- 

 wards of sixty miles, by paths which had never before been 

 trodden but by the natives. Several of my stoutest men 

 were for a long time laid up by sickness occasioned by 

 their excessive fatigue, and one (corporal Mahan of the 

 marines) died two days after his return. 



The day oi our return was devoted to rest ; a messen- 

 ger was, however, despatched to the Typees, informing 

 them I was still wilhng to make peace, and that I should 

 not allow them to return to their valley until they had come 

 on terms of friendship with us. The messenger, on his 

 return, informed me, that the Typees, on his arrival, were 

 in the utmost consternation •, but that my message had 

 diffused the most lively joy among them. There was no- 

 thing they desired more than peace, and they would be 

 willing to purchase my friendship on any terms. He in- 

 formed me that a flag of truce would be sent in next day 

 to know my conditions. 



On the arrival of the Typee llag, which was borne by a 

 chief accompanied by a priest, I informed them that I still 



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