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terms with me, as he might take his choice, either peace or war. 
On the return of the messenger, he informed me, that Temaa Ti- 
pee desired nothing more ardently than peace, and that he should 
have been more punctual in the performance of his engagements 
had not the Happahs refused to permit him and his tribe a pas¬ 
sage through their valley: (I suspected this to be false, I knew that 
the Happahs dare not act so contrary to my wishes) he, however, 
promised to bring his supplies by water in future punctually, and 
in the course of the day after the return of the messenger, land¬ 
ed at the beech in front of the village with six large canoes laden 
with hogs and fruit. His complaint of the Happahs had induced 
me to send a messenger immediately to that tribe, with a threat 
of punishment, in case of future difficulties between them and the 
tribes with whom I was at peace; they denied positively having 
refused him a passage, and strengthened their assertions with 
fresh supplies. 
On the arrival of Temaa Tipee I remonstrated with him on 
the falsehood he had told me; he assured me that as he return- 
ed home from my camp, they had not only threatened, but had 
thrown stones at him, calling him coward, and threatening to 
drive him off his land; but on a closer inquiry I found that I had 
been misinformed as to the tribe that had treated him so cava¬ 
lierly. It had been the warlike tribe of the Typees of the val¬ 
ley of Vieehee, who had excited so much alarm in the minds of 
the Shouemes. They had always been the allies of each other; 
their valleys were only separated by a small ridge, they had in¬ 
termarried and became almost as one tribe. The principal vil¬ 
lages of the Shouemes were situated near the water, and whol¬ 
ly exposed to our attacks, while those of the Typees were con¬ 
sidered as secured by their distance from the sea, and the al¬ 
most impenetrable forests and perpendicular mountains by which 
only they were to be approached. The first consulted prudence, 
the others felt their own strength and security, and confided in 
them, and losing sight of the exposed situation of the Shoue¬ 
mes, attributed their conduct to cowardice alone, and spurned 
them as a degenerate tribe, unworthy of future alliance with them* 
Temaa Tipee claimed my protection, which I promised him; he 
then requested me to exchange names; I told him I had but 
