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CHAP, dying immediately, Menalee reloaded, and deliberately despatched him 
by a second discharge. He afterwards attacked Tetaheite, who was 
Dec. condoling with Young’s wife for the loss of her favourite black, and 
would have murdered him also, but for the interference of the women. 
Afraid to remain longer in the village, he escaped to the mountains 
and joined Quintal and M'Coy, who, though glad of his services, at 
first received him with suspicion. This great acquisition to their force 
enabled them to bid defiance to the opposite party ; and to show’ their 
strength, and that they were provided with muskets, they appeared on 
a ridge of mountains, within sight of the village, and fired a volley 
which so alarmed the others that they sent Adams to say, that if they 
would kill the black man, Menalee, and return to the village, they would 
all be friends again. The terms were so far complied with that Menalee 
w as shot ; but, apprehensive of the sincerity of the remaining blacks, 
they refused to return while they were alive. 
Adams says it was not long before the widows of the white men 
so deeply deplored their loss, that they determined to revenge their 
death, and concerted a plan to murder the only two remaining men of 
colour. Another account, communicated by the islanders, is, that it 
w^as only part of a plot formed at the same time that Menalee was 
murdered, which could not be put in execution before. However this 
may be, it was equally fatal to the poor blacks. The arrangement was, 
that Susan should murder one of them, Tetaheite, while he was sleeping 
by the side of his favourite ; and that Young should at the same instant, 
upon a signal being given, shoot the other, Nehow. The unsusjDecting 
Tetaheite retired as usual, and fell by the blow of an axe ; the other 
was looking at Young loading his gun, which he supposed was for the 
purpose of shooting hogs, and requested him to put in a good charge, 
when he received the deadly contents. 
In this manner the existence of the last of the men of colour ter- 
minated, who, though treacherous and revengeful, had, it is feared, too 
much cause for complaint. The accomplishment of this fatal scheme 
was immediately communicated to the two absentees, and their return 
solicited. But so many instances of treachery had occurred, that they 
would not believe the report, though delivered by Adams himself, until 
