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scarcely arrived at the ship before the Typees rushed on our allies, 
who had remained behind, and drove them into their canoes and 
into the water; we sprung into our boats, and pulled towards the 
shore, when they precipitately retreated, and our allies pursued 
in turn, and knocked over with a stone one of the Typee warriors, 
whose body they triumphantly bore off. Finding they would not 
face us in a clear space, and being perfectly sick of bush fighting, 
I returned to Massachusetts Bay with my boats, and directed the 
Essex Junior to follow when the wind suited. 
The next day I determined to proceed with a force which I 
believed they could not resist, and selected two hundred men from 
the Essex, the Essex Junior (which had now arrived), and from 
the prizes. I directed boats to be prepared to start with them 
before day light next morning, and cautioned every one to be se¬ 
cret as to my intentions, not wishing to be annoyed by the noise 
and confusion of either of the tribes of Indians, whom we had al¬ 
ways found useless to us. In the evening the boats being found 
leaky and unable to carry the men, I caused the party to be sent 
on shore and determined to go by land. We had a fine moon¬ 
light night, and I hoped to be down in the Typee valley long be¬ 
fore daylight. We had guides which we supposed could be de¬ 
pended upon for their knowledge of the road, and supposing we 
should be unaccompanied by many Indians, calculated by our si¬ 
lence to take them by surprise, and make several prisoners, which 
would be more likely to bring them to terms than any number of 
them we could expect to kill. The Essex’s crew composed the 
main body, the rest being divided into scouting parties headed by 
their respective officers. I gave the orders for marching, and sent 
word of my intentions to Gattanewa, in order that neither him nor 
his people might be alarmed by our warlike movements. I di¬ 
rected the party sent in advance to halt as soon as they had gain¬ 
ed the top of the mountain until I came up with the main body. 
There I intended encamping for the night, should our men not be 
able to stand the fatigue of a longer march. Several gave out be- 
for® we reached the summit, which we did in about three hours, 
with, great difficulty; but after resting a short time, and finding 
ourselves refreshed, the moon shining out bright, and our guides 
informing us (though very incorrectly) that we were not more 
