38 MARINER AT TOFOA. 
that Mariner, in visiting the volcano on the 
summit of Tofoa, in company with a native 
guide, thought it necessary to provide himself 
with a pistol, as a defence against any violent 
measures on the part of his companion. Nor 
would he advance with him too near the crater 
of the volcano, " lest the man might have some 
sinister intent." * The volcano on the island of 
Tofoa may be noticed in the print of Captain 
Bligh, whose open boat is also represented. 
After the murder of Norton, on the 1st of 
May, many of the natives in canoes followed 
Bligh's boat very quickly, and renewed the 
assault with stones, of which they had brought 
a great quantity ; but, being attracted by some 
clothes which were, by his order, thrown to 
them, and which they stopped to pick up, they 
lost time, and abandoned the pursuit. 
It was then resolved by the party, at Bligh's 
instance, to make for a Dutch settlement on the 
island of Timor, in the East Indies, a distance 
of no less than 3,618 miles. 
Their stock of provisions then consisted of 
about 150 pounds of bread, 28 gallons of water, 
20 pounds of pork, 3 bottles of wine, and a small 
quantity of rum ; a few cocoa-nuts were also in 
the boat. Such bread-fruit as they had was of 
no use, having been trampled to pieces in the 
bustle and confusion of the attack at Tofoa. 
The sufferings undergone by these eighteen 
men, in a boat only twenty- three feet in length, 
and six feet nine inches in breadth, heavily 
laden, and without any awning, were very 
* Mariner' a "Tonga Islands/' vol. i. chap. viii. 
