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Fatigue, and one (corporal Mahan of the marines) died two days af¬ 
ter his return. 
The day of our return was devoted to rest; a messenger was, 
however, despatched to the Typees informing them I was still 
willing to make peace, and that I should not allow them to return 
to their valley until they had come on terms of friendship with us. 
The messenger on his return informed me that the Typees on his 
arrival, were in the utmost consternation; but that my message 
had diffused the most lively joy among them: there was nothing 
they desired more than peace, and they would be willing to pur¬ 
chase my friendship on any terms. He informed me that a 
dag of truce would be sent in next day to know my conditions. 
On the arrival of the Typee flag, which was borne by a chief 
accompanied by a priest, I informed them that I still insisted on 
a compliance with the conditions formerly offered them, to wit, an 
exchange of presents and peace with myself and the tribes who 
had allied themselves to me. They readily consented to these 
terms, and requested to know the number of hogs I should re¬ 
quire, stating that they had lost but few, and should be enabled 
to supply us abundantly; I told them I should expect from them 
four hundred, which they assured me should be delivered without 
delay. 
Flags were now. sent to me again from all the tribes in the 
island, even the most remote and inconsiderable, with large pre¬ 
sents of hogs and fruit, and we had never at any time since we had 
been on the island experienced such abundance. It was now the 
source of regret to me that I was not supplied with salt, that we 
might be enabled to have cured a quantity of pork for our sea 
stock, which we might easily have done from the large supply 
on hand. 
Our enclosure, although spacious, was not sufficient to con¬ 
tain the hogs we received; I therefore was under the necessity of 
sending them on board the different ships in as great numbers as 
could be kept there; still notwithstanding we killed pork on shore 
for our people every day, the number of hogs increased so fast 
that it became necessary to turn them out of the enclosure and 
let them run, which was done after marking them by cutting off' 
the right ear and slitting the left; I however previously informed 
