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prepared our muskets for battle.— 
The next morning we launched 15 or 16 
canoes, containing in ail about 200 na¬ 
tives, and set sail for Alloo ; where we 
arrived and landed, and proceeded to a 
village in order to give battle to the en¬ 
emy. On learning that the chief of Al¬ 
loo and his family had fled in a canoe, 
we returned to our canoes, made sail in 
pursuit of the chief, but did not overtake 
him. After returning and spending a 
day or two at the Island of Alloo, we 
launched our canoes and went to our 
respective homes, and heard no more 
of the war. 
Some time after my master returned 
to the Island where we usually resided, 
a canoe came and brought the informa¬ 
tion that a vessel was anchored near 
one of the head Islands—that she carri¬ 
ed guns on each side, and had a hun¬ 
dred men—that they (the natives that 
brought the news) had been on board 
of the vessel, and received presents of 
beads, which they had on their necks* 
The natives said the vessel was not like 
