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Wild Life in Southern Seas. 
Immediately upon the arrival of Finau with 
his fleet in Nukualofa Harbour the expedition 
disembarked. Eight of the fifteen Englishmen, 
with young Mariner, were armed with muskets 
taken from the captured privateer, and these at 
once opened a fire of musketry upon the enemy, 
who had sallied out of the fortress to oppose the 
landing. So effectively were the eight muskets 
handled that Finau soon succeeded in landing 
his troops. The first volley killed three and 
wounded several of the enemy, and a second 
threw them into such dismay that in five 
minutes only forty of the bravest remained to 
contest the landing, the rest retreating into 
the fortress. In the meantime the seven other 
Englishmen had dismounted the Port-au-Prince's 
carronades from their carriages on the canoes 
and slung them to stout poles, and, conveyed 
by a number of natives, the guns were carried 
across the shallow water on the reef to the 
shore. The rest of Finau’s troops being then 
disembarked (4,000 in all says Mariner), the 
Englishmen again mounted the carronades, and 
a regular fire was begun at short range upon 
the fortress. 
“ Seated in an English chair taken from the 
