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SANDALWOOD TEADE
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"From whence come wars anrl fl.vU(.-
not hence, even of your lul th,f I ^' """""^ you ? Come they
and have not: ye UUT^^LX Z'"''' T''''''' ' ^e lust^
Jajtes, iv: 1, 2, "° ''^ '''*^«' and cannot obtain."—
HA I. IF AX, IV. S.
June 11>, 1862.
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This tract was written r
"•" a -ail par „7u ," bP,:;""""' ^'^-gi the ,- u.h IV^ "'"
""I 'mdere in ,„„,,';, „7' ""' '"fomation conce-rninrtt ' T
ttiore fiiliiT ft, 1.^ w"oa, as mav pnni.j^ » ^"® trade
acknnuri ^ • ' ^''^^'j embraces th;. ^ o'jnesja.
^a«8 from the CoraJ
««''^H., J,„e 19th, 18GO JA.MKS D. Gori>o.v.
published
'^8 printed
'ose of cir-
the trade
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tenoss of
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to the
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THE TRADE AND TRADERS IN SANDALWOOD.
-is the o„e in which "he C h":"'-'" '??"' ^^"'" <"0 mile.
Provinces of li N 1 ': ZXTT ?"'''' "^ "'« ^"-"^
"orlhorn part of lhi/„n„, ^? ''"'■'''■»' ""'eresled. The
called ,„ hia,'„:'L;^ C ei/ 'Thet '''"''=''"~'"" """
g.ven ,i,e:„ by C«,„„i„ Cook h, if 74 •"■'"-"" ""'"' "«'
.en^'ve'lSp^l™;:';:!:.* T""'"" 1 "^ "^ '"'^ -
tkose to which our Cl™-c i Th " f "^ En'omanso, are
wliich she must needsever fie 1™°' ""-'"^ "■'""=''• ""'' '»
of Ihese islands, in pa 4, ar vi " T^"'= '"i"^''''^'- ^" '»o
'lie trade in sandalwood h-^' I '~a'""' ^"^ I^™n,anga-
■oerely ,o the ex,ensTor?of tt /^ °'1 f"", <''"™«'""l. not
anee «f civilization «„,,,„ p"'?".'' »""aIso lothe further-
close to ihe fu?l exient .hV! ^^- °' '^ ^°''<' ^'"n*^ »'"i dis-
and blood, which even now c";'?"^,-''^ ""= '^""^^ "' --"P^city
.ef ^&i Sl^^« ^;"^s^
coral rock. The CI „e» t 1 ''' "PP^i-ently on the bare
-(he value of which Ins bZ"'L""/^" ^'""^ "' ""' '^ce
years-into fancy ar'icles butt "Th"' "' ''"'' "'" '»^' ^^
•>u™ln, incense i^n their'p^':?: IVlt/rL^-' ^' '»
^<5 » A (•
commerce. Of these 7 belonged to S in 'S^ SJ^^g^^J m thia
one to Plymouth. Pie c^v "A "^^' ^ ^° ""»>artown, and
eci .sandalwood a thf L ^^^^/'^.Y,?'''? • 'r'! '?' ^^"^ "^^'^-n-
The vessel carried 65 inn'i i''"~^" "^^"^ « "^«nths.
tobaceoof2cvvt.eLh nnT']! ""f^-"^'""^^' '^^"^^ ^ ke^s of
The 200 tons cosrabout £00 f 1 ? ^'^^'^ ^"^'^ ^''^ l>4-
allowing it to sell /or cV^^^^ I^''^?! «" ^^^^ -'Me,
^Towards the end of hf lat Uem^^^^^^^^^ ^ -^1^182 4s:
tnlly discovered in the F j I^ ^'^^l^^'^^^ ^^^^^
cominn: thiiher from Manilla and th. A . r ''''''^^ ^'''^>^
mnnd soon proved -renter thl n "'^'?'^^" ^^'^'^ thede-
;'^e traffic wL transfe "X tt nI Subsequently
lands and New Caledonia "" Hebrides, Loyalty l/.
demoralization and deat?^ I^rffwh l'"^'^'-''^ ^^^^'^'adation,
from the date of the arrive oTtLl 7 t' ''''""'''"^ '•*" >"n>etus
Sea Islands. A va4e cup d it. f ' i ''''^''' '" ^^'^ ^^°"'J'
prnploye<l by the Prinze o ffi;',!"";^ ^;-%-«- a.^ents
increasing his power. The int' o W ^' "^^ '"' '^'^'"'^ ^"^^
angmented thJ number of 'he Si II «[ weapons of warfl,re
whetted the teeth of the cannib 1 T^ '^' '"-'^^ «^"^h« ^^'ain
blood increased the fWocttT of 1^^ " '''"'' ^^'-^»- ^-^b and
mention a r..y circumstances com ectr/'''''', T^ '^'^'^^' "<^-
.^ome of these islands, as tleyZ,To'Z'''' ''■^'^'•^' "^
traders and the infamy of their tmde! ^^aracter of the
_ VAGABOND FOREIGNERS.
1".J,' with the heall,™ had k rrned fhr'*''"''' *'"'' ^^ """S"
J.;nne,, Houselnan on omr„ ° Fiii ' f" f "S'^""^'" ""mod
«.i.he di,s,i„c,,io„ of being .be"™:' tol^ . Ho had attain.
♦^ ;-v i} A ^\
bri<r.
Manilla; and in 1850 Lieutenant Pollard .^aw another cn-
gagt'J in oiiinj:; the body of a chief at SoinoSoino.
Charles Pickering, another of thi^se celebrities, wa? disco-
vered at Viwa by Capt. Er.skine. EIh had heard of him be*
lore, for his fame or infamy had reached Australia. Picker*
injTj said he wished to make some explanation " for his own
and the public satisfaction." One of his accusers was Tha-
kombau the chief, who charged him with stirring up strife
bet'.veen the natives and white residents. He was then living
near the Missionaries, and had no fewer than a half-a-dozen
in his harem. On pointing out to him his mode of life and
tliwarlirig the efforts of the Missionaries,* the Capt. says " the
cool impudence of his reply was amusing." He said be was
gradually reducing the number of his women, and felt great
comfort on getting rid of n dozen or two, winch would induce
him to persevere in his good intentions.
The Rev. J. Williams during his second visit to the Navi-
gator's Islands in 1832, received information of runaway
sailors and other Europeans, who, residing among the people
did them incalculable mischief. Many he says were convicts
from New South Wales, who had Escaped in stolen vessels. —
The jNIissionaries told him of a gang, who, subsequent to their
settlement on one of the Islands, liad come there in a fine
schooner, which, after stripping, they scuttled and sank a few
yards from the shore.
Somc! time previous another gang came in a stolen vessel
to the Society Islands, who, though kindly treated by the chief,
yet j)lundered his property, and taking a blunderbuss and
powder with other things, decamped at night in Mr. Barfly's
whale boat. When missed, two boats with native crews were
despatched in search of them. The pursuers on overtaking
them, said : — " Friends, we have come to fetch you back ; you
must not steal the Missionary's boat and the chief's property."
They replied by letting them have the contents of the blun-
derbuss, which blew the head of one of them to pieces, killed
two others, and severely wounded a fourth. A boy alone es-
caped by jumping into the sea and hiding himself behind the
* Tbo evangelistic elTorts of be VVesleyans in this group havo been euii-
Q«utlj^ sucoussful.
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P/H«' I'y and ;i;'lS J;;^;; ;[-- - s-u-vhor., s.-M o/n
to fi.e shore. ^"^ '"''" "^'eiwards niauagt'd to row
Mr. Williams says th-if nn w • ,
^;u.Kl several oftLe^e^a 'k";:^' T ^ ^^^•^"''' '-
tlKMnselves as being shipwrecl- ,1 .i ^'"'>^ r.'prosei.t.^d
;" 7.r north, n.oy%o 'XrJ"^ /'■''''''^''■'•, Ti.o.,nh\vrecked
^''-"- ^nle was a /ooli;i S, i'of '^ T''^^-'" '^'^ ^^^''^ ''-^^
were convicts. They lef nex't W n '''' '""^''■"^^''' ^''^^ 7
g;^tor's Islands, they -entered ^4^ ^.'v ^"/?:'^^'''"" ''"' ^^^^v^^
« the natives, makin. 7e 'rfu ' 'V ^' * '''^''^ ''^^« ^''^ ^vars
'i;- leader on one ocla ^^'L, ""o ""' l''*^"' «-.'".„s.J
others with a shot from hh bh d rl! '"^"S^^'^^^*-^ ^voundlng
ro load, however, th -^v ru Iw ^ ''' ^^^''« '"« '"^'^ t'"me tS
,/^ " monster o in mn'tv " 7^ \T ^""^ ^"^ ^'""^^^^ ''ini.
^^I'; W's. arrival. iTn^'. ^Iff" f"!^" ^^<^ath previous to
;vitl) his own hand. To preven, ll ^''^ ^'^^''^ '''' ^^^^dred
""^^elf with charcoal and^o'T T,f f ,"" ''^ "^^^^ '^« ^"^^ar
l>e ranged before hi,n wh n takinl h "'''' f ^''^ ^^^»'" "^^^ to
Cliarles Sava^rf. ^ ^, i ^'^'^'"" "''^ meals.
A^ a war,,-,,,. 1,„ ,„,, ,,;;^ '" .^j^ ''"'■'".'<^^r' «' '•''■nha.ion.
;» March, 1814, i„ a baull TtV?;' '? "''r '''''"''-^- "•"
toS'^tl.er with ,|,e ma„er nf an F„ ' ^"■"'.'"' ""^ ''*'''<'""id-
CaloM„„. Tlieobjertof ,hen».wl* ' "'"''"S '•'^**"1 '™m
^amialwood. Fourteen of II' *'" '" ^"■•"■■'' " cargo of
i-nd ,i,e body „f Savage ,rtled-,r"''' f"'"' ""'' '^^'™
"Hbgrnry. Hi., bones „e,'e co„vI'5 ™"^'^\»f "'e utmon
■J'^'iihu.ed among ,be n'lL • ' , """''"'' '"■«"c. and
--,b,.a„ce „, bi3 :j::t, ibe- f „ iij:;j:-- "'
^ -MODES O. OBTAmiNO SANDALWOOD
-^er?r"7iro7d:r,::re.°:'e'^'^'^'-^'-r''' '<> ""■■^•■'
o-a.es we-e ^a-cd,™;. f --^-^^^^^^^^
parties were attempting to obtain sandalwood bj means most
dishonorable and reprehensil.'le.
In 1834 tiie master of a French brig called the V Amiable
Josfijihine^ assisted a chief of Viwa in a war against Somo-
Sonio. This Captain — one cannot call him a man for he was
unworthy of the appellation — was so much of the canibal that
he allowed a man to be cooked and eaten on board of his
vessel. Snbserpiently, however, he together with the most of
his crew were massacred at this same place Four years
after this last mentioned event M d'Urville, for revenge, burnt
the village of Viwa. But, if the French acted badly in their
intercourse with these savages, Englishmen conducted them-
selves in a manner no less reprehensible.
" While at the Navigator's," says the Ilev. J. Williami=!,
*' I heard of two vessels having been taken at Islands where
the people were still heathen ; in the one case all the crew,
and in the other the greater part of them, fell victims to the
excited feelings of the natives. In both cases Englishmen
were the au'irfssors. In the one, the chief's ton was threat-
ened with death, and in the other the drunken Captain and
crew were in the act of drai^-ixinfj the cliief's wife on board
their ship. A short time after this disastrous event, a man-
of-war visited the island, when sixty of the inhabitants were
killed. Surely — Mr. W adds — if the natives are to be so
severely punished for avenging their injuries, some method
ought to be adopted to prevent our countrymen from inflicting
them." .
In 1832 a man-of-war is despatched to one of the Navi-
gator's Islands, and 60 natives are murdered to avenge the
death of two or three drunken Englishmen, who had probably,
forfeited their lives!
In 18{)I Missionaries are massacred on Eromanga by a
Biitis/i suhjecf and unfriendly natives : Commodore Seymour
proceeds thither in a man-of-war, takes a look at the island,
and then steams off, without even attempting to bring the
murderers to an account !
One of the urrighteous expedients to which traders had
resourse in procuring sandal -wood was impressing natives for
the purpose of taking it forcibly by making descents upon
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;n i.. gre..u queslion of J^iU^^ T^''^ """■^'^"■^
'■■ade Muisi be placed undeHhe ',„!'" > ""' ''"=''^'^' ""«
govern commercial intercourse «iTh ilT^'"""" '' "'-l'"".-"/
, Captain Krsid„e-of H iU "%'"'"S» com.tries." ^
J'U more good than all wl.o 'luTi ^^^1'' "''"' '"•«''»'''y
ubsequcnly vi.ited tl.e.e i.lant '"'"'"":'>•' «'' "'"' ''"'e
lort Jackson. M'lufe „.ere, iJa hi, of "'"''' '■«""«"' <"
l^een comnntted at llie l^ijis, 1 e di ' a ?r, l t" """'"-" ''""'"S
-n H. M. Schooner liratnble to tni'ke jt'^.^^"-'""''"'"'- I'olla.d
ioliown.g ,s a oriel- account of the .flfi?.'""""'S'''"°»- '^'I'e
^|e^-^;;^:r;i:;::?;fc--esidi„gatxak„,au
^-liery at the nonhem end of New r W ? "'>" '"' '' ^'-'^P^ng
saves were oouvejed in two 8idnev v "'; '^^'''^''' ^^'^
wereeomraenced and conducted ''S t^"''"\ ^]>enuions
the nghts of the natives oi tiie fv/ V'^V^^'"''^ ^^''^''^^gnrd of
-^;ue The natives seized one o^ tlu ''^ }"'' --^ the
wluch had on board at the ii^X^J^f'-^ ''^'^^^■~'
ho.^'age.and native wonu^i^ orcfb^T,^'''^^ ^ief. as a
^^--assaered. Fuxgerald, leav n ' In^ ^ ^^^^'"^ , ^^'^« ^'''^^v was
a ^mall stock of ^nnJut^^^^^J^^^i;- ^'''"^^ ^"■'"' ^^'^^
American man of color, escaped to SM^'''''"'I''^^"^« «^"^^»
^J'<^i^>ench bishop who was t hi . '^'- ^^^^^-^q"ent]v
^emptatestabii.hin,a3ii..i.^^;- 7 in. - -con^
"I the remainder ot the t.ariy . a • ^'^'"''""'»' '"'"^vard-
Aneueum one of the Fijian. ,Wio "^"V^'^^'^""' While on
doubted, nn.de an attack iponUfcjfr "^ '^" ^''"« ^^a.
'^^ Carxain Paddon. The i wJ "f '^^''^'^'"'"» i» ^'^^ eniploy
;;nl.appy F,|ian, kiiled and ate ^i "t^' '^''"^ "^^^ ''^«
^^7,^ afterwards forwarded to Si ney bt p"7r'"'^-'^ «^' ^^
0/ Captain Paddon, Captain P? ^ ^'''^^"•
^nost honorable of the ^andluwood tr;];i " '? .'^ ""^ ^^ ^'^^
^ i^»iauj>; a dubious compli.
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ment. He is about as honorable, I supposp, as a Rnmseller:
Primus inter pares, ^vho are all rolt'ier; and nmrdf'rejv. —
Who cursed the Chinese with opium ? Paddon. Who perpe-
tuated idolatry among them by isending them sandidwood to
burn ins^ence to their idols ? He did. Who tired upon the
natives of Mure ? The same. " And Brutus is an honorable
man."
" Captain Paddon and all the traders," say the Tanese,
" tell us that the worship is the cause of all our sickness and
death, and they all say that they will not tiade with us, and
give us plenty of pipes and tobacco, powder, balls and caps,
till we kill Missi, (Mv. Paton) and after that they will send a
trader to live at his house among us, and give us plenty."
Previous to engaging in the sandalwood trade he carried
on a traUlc in opium, in a small brig called the Brigand, of
which he was master and owner. In the same vessel he
commenced the sandalwood trade. In 184;3, while search-
ing for this coveted article, a bloody encounter ensued between
his crew and the natives of Mare. Seventeen of his crew
were killed ;uid several wounded. The number slain on the
other side is not mentioned. This was the beginning of his
career in these waters. Nothing daunted, he determined to
gain a permanent footing on some convenient island. On
account o( the "ancorage, and the peaceable dis[)osition of
the natives" he obtained an amicable settlement on Aneiteum.
Since that period he has become one of the sandalwood
merchant princes of the Pacific. In Justice to Captain
Paildon, howevei-, it must be said that it does not appear he
wantonly took (he lives of natives as some in the same trade
have done. In an ailldavit made by him in reference to this
disastrous affray, he stated before the su[)erintendent of
Norfolk Island, that so soon as he had cleared the ship of the
assailants "he endeavored to stop the firing for the sake of
the people on shore, and (that) tlius not more than six
musket shots, and no long gun were lired after them."
Another occurrence which caused much excitement took
place at the Isle of Pines, in LS'jO. Mr. Lewis, ihe superin-
tendent of Mr. Towns, was employed in collecting wood on
Mare, in the cutter Will-o'-the-Wisp. On bemg informed
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that tlie poo[)le of a district to the southward — where were
rival ti'dders — had formed a plan for (:a[)tiiring hi.s vessel, lie
armed his men and proceeded to the spot. Alas! tliree
unsuspecting natives, armed with their cluhs as was their
custom, on swimming off were shot. This deed done, Lewis,
chuckling very likely over his prowess, immediately sailed off.
But, for the murder of tliese inoffensive men he was
afterwards brought to trial in a Couii of Justice (?) in New
South Wales. The Chief Justice made a strong charge, but
there was no redress for savages. The Jury acquitted the
ignoble assassin. Subsequently, in retaliation, Towns had a
cutter ca])tured. and his crew cut off at Mare. Saguinary
trade! Foreigners may wantonly murder natives with
impunity, but let not a savage dare to take the life of a
European, under any circumstances.
JJ^'i^ f'loop-of-war Falmouth arrived at Ovolaw, one of the
Fijis, in jMarch, .1851. A few months previous John Forster,
a Scotchman, and claiming the protection of the U. S.
Consular AgtMit, Mr. Williams had been killed by natives, in
revenge, it was said, for the massacre of some of their
number by Tiiakanauto. Thr man who struck the fatal blow
was tried by a court of six officers of the Falmouth, found
guilty and executed. Williams was prosecutor, and Mr.
Calvert, Missionary, interpreter and counsel for the prisoner.
Mr. C. ex[)ressed his conviction that the proceedings were
conclucted with great care and deliberation, and an evident
desire to save the man's life, had justice permitted.
riitheito, however, it does not appear that a savage ever
got any redress in a British Court. Captain Erskine removed
Stevens from Tana. " I was desirous," he says, " of show-
ing to the vagraiu English, who, when among these islands,
fancy themselves above all restraint, that offences wantonly
committed here were i)unishable by our own laws; and altho'
in this case it was not probable that any evidence could be
procured which would weigh with a Sidney Jury, even in the
doubtful case of their considering the murder of a savage a
blamable action, yet the inconvenience the culprit would be
put to by his removal might operate in some degree as a check
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upon otlierj!. if it were understood that our domiciliaiy visits
were to be annually repeated."
Tlie cruise of Captain Er-^kine among these islands was
made in the year 1849 and 18'>0. On one occasion he says
he had a long conversation with a Mr. Rodd, superintendent
of Paddon's establishment, and adds, " the principal topic
was, of course, the state of the sandalwood trade, and the
history of the many affrays which had occurred betwen the
natives and the crews of tlie vessels." In one of these Rodd
had lost an eye and a hand, and very nearly his life. He
became acquainted with these islands in 1840, at which
period he was on board the brig Camden, in the service of
the London Missionary Society lie was present when the
first Samoan teachers were landed on the isle of Pines. A
seaman on board the Camden, detected two or three billets of
sandalwood in a supply brought off for the vessel. He was
aw}i,re of its commercial valu(N and concealed his knowledge
from the rest of the crew. On reaching Sidney he showed
the billets, which he had carefully preserved, to some
merchants of that place. His secrecy was purchased, and
two vessels were immediately dispatched to the island, which
it was said made profitable voyages to China. That this
island produced the precious commodity was soon no longer a
secret. Vessels flocked thither. The usual feuds ensued
which issued in the greater demoralization of the heathen and
in the death of several. The brig Star, in 1840, of Tahiti,
was seized by 30 natives, and the crew, together with some
Samoan teachers, were murdered and afterwards eaten.
On arriving at Tana, Capla'.n E., sent a boat ashore to
reconnoitre. On returning, the crew brought with them the
superintendent of a sandalwood establishment, Leonard Cory,
an Englishman. At that time the relations between the
natives and Europeans were of a friendly character. Cory
had property there to the value of £G00. He received ia
exchange for his articles, wood and pigs. The pigs were
shipped to Eronianga, and given for sandalwood. His
testimony was that during the period he had been there, 10
month;-', he had not had anything stolen from him. His
stock consisted of rod and bar iron, axes, muskets, powder,
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tobacco and blue beads. Foreigners have made the poor
Tanese " two-fohl more the children of hell than them.>^elves."
Under date Oct. llth, ISGT, Rev Mr. Patton writes thus : —
" Pel haps he durst not come asliore, * * * Capt.
Anderson had a quarrel with the natives of Wagusi, and he
tolfi me his mate shot a man for stealing a musket ; but two
Tana women on board his vessel informed our people that he
had stolen them, the two women who were sent to trade with
Ids boat, and when their friends offered to rescue them they
shot two men, and kept firing at the others till tliey were out
of reach. One of the men wbo was shot and cut to pieces by
the axes of the Captain's (Murray) men, in his boat was a
chief sitting as a hostage wiiile his people were tradin<r. —
When the Belgium gentlemen were here, a ITobartown
whaler called here, had a white woman on board, and purchas-
ed, and took away three Tana women, and decoyed 12 young
men to sleep on board all night, who found themselves far out
at sea next morning."
On Tana at that time, the forces of Kaiassi, a ch!e'', were
led to battle by an Englishman named Stephens. Stephens
liad a musket, and knew how to usp it. •' The conduct of
these reckless men," says Capt. Erskine, " and of the undisci-
plined crews of vessels, who, always permitted to carry arms,
cannot be restricted in the use of them, has rendered, in many
cases, the trade in .sandalwood * * * little better than
plundering expeditions carried on with extreme distrust on
either side, and accom[)anied with no inconsiderable loss of
life."
The narrative of flacjkson, who during a period extending
over ten years, had a temporary residence on different islands,
is ([uite interesting, and parts of it thrilling. His perils and
exploits, however, eamiot be narrated in this tract; nor can
anything be said about a notoriou-; character, generally known
by the significant title " Cannibal Charley." Bui ere closing
this brief account of the trade and traders in sandalwood,
mention should be made of
eromanga's wuonos.
These, for the most part, still remain unredressed. This
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Uland. perhaps more than any other, has suffered from the
outrages of Europeans, and experienced the evil resuUs of the
accursed trade in sandalwood. The first white man, proba-
bly, the Eromangans ever saw, left their shores, leav-
ing a most unfavorable impiession behind him. This was
Capt. Cook. He called there in 1774. While looking for a
suitable landing place, he kept off about a mile from the shore.
The natives kept making signals for them to come nearer. —
On approaching, and handing them a few presents, they were
eagerly received. They wished to take his boat to land for
him, over the breakers, Ijut he refused their offer. Then they
directed the '• papalangi" — heavenly foreigners — to go round
to a more convenient landing place. At this interview he re-
ceived from them a green branch. As directed he went round
to the spot pointed out, and landed, bearing in his hand the
branch, to nidicate his peaceful intentions. He says they re-
ceived him with great courtesy and poli^iMiess, and that they
gave him yams, cocoa-nuts and water. He observed one in-
fluential personage exerting himself in preserving decorum
among the natives assembled. The Captam, after spending
some time on shore, suspected he saw signs of mischief, and
returned to his boat. When about embarking, some of them
took up a board used as a gang-way, with the intention, as he
thought, of stealing it, — but may they not have done so on ac-
count of their unwillingness to i)art with the '• papalangi ?" —
and they took also two oars out of the hands of the crew. —
Cook presented a musket. The board was returned ; but they
then attempted to detain the boat, and began to haul it ashore.
The Cai)tain took aim at the ringleader, but his gun missed
fire. The natives threw stones and darts. Cook orders a ge-
neral discharge to be fired. It is done, and the natives are
in confusion. A second volley and four are stretched on the
beach. The rest escape for their lives. Well, as if the dead
and the dying were too few, while sailing away, the oars were
held up to his view on a rocky point, and " I was prevailed
on" he adds " to fire a 4 pound shot at them, to let them see
the effect of our great guns !" This shot frightened them so
much, that they retreated into the interior of the island, leav-
ing the oars behind them, and were seen no more. This most
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unhappy affray tarni.lies the glory, ifit does not diminish the
renown of this great navigator. How few or how many of the
ragic scenes since enacted on that island, may be fairh'traced
Ihat Wilhamss murder may be traced to it, we doubt not.
VVhat marvel that the blind savages should resolve to put to
death every white man who should visit their shores? The
Lord, hou-ever, in Capt. Cook's case, made good his own de-
carat.on Gen ix 6 : " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
shall his blood be shed," for 5 years afterward, he lost his life
m a quarrel with the natives of one of the Sandwich Islands.
Whatever may have been the character of the P:romano-ans
when visited by Capt Cook, at the time of Capt, ErskTne'd
cruise among these islands they were -considered the most
barbarous of the New Hebrides." From a Captain Richards
. he received some information respecting the mani.er in which
the sandalwood trade was carried on with these people. He
.^aid the mate of a Sidney vessel had but a few weeks previ-
ously boasted to him, that he had shot six men while sailinrr
along the coast. Here then, were six inoffensive natives shoL
and for what purpose ? 7o spoil the trade on a rival Ano-
ther miscreant, for sport for himself, shot a friendly chief.
m addition to these outrages, natives of this island and of
other IS ands had been impressed at different times, and for-
cibly taken away to collect sandalwood on other islands.—
Methuselah Tae, chief of Tonga, gave the following account
of a traiisaction of this kind. His ac( ount was borne out by
the testimony of others. ^
About December 1842, two vessels under British colors
arrived at Tonga They came to raise a party of men to cut
wood forcibly on the New Hebrides. A brother of the kin-s
agreed with Henry, the leader, to supply CO men. Wh?n
ready they embarked in three vessels. On their way they
touched at the Fijis to get reinforcements, Thonce thev
proceeded to Eromanga. Having- armed themsHves with
muskets they landed, and commenced to cut wood. Soon some
of their axes were missing and a Tongan shot a susoecled
man The fire was returned, and a Tongan fell. Lewvin^
the island after this feud, they next made a descent upon Vate°
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and with similar results. The Vateans felt the inferiority of
their own arms inasmuch as they lost in an affray iiS men but
the enemy none. They fled to a cave. The enemy pursued
and fired mto it. Was that revenge enough ? No : they then
pulled down houses, piled the materials at the mouth of the
cave, set the pile on fire, and suffocated the wretched prison-
ers. Have not such sores festered in the dark, diseased souls
of these benighted heathen ? Time slowly heals wounds like
these. Then, again, they were kept cutting wood some days
longer than had been stipulated. Four Eroman-aos we.-e
with them, when they returned to Tonga, and smafl would be
then- prospect of ever having an opportunity ofreturnin^r to
their native hind. °
Eighty and eight years have glided away since Cnptain
Cook s visit to Eromnnga, and since that period its history
has been wi-itten in blood and tears. Sandalwood on difl^'er-
ent occasions was taken from that island, lit(>railv besmeared
with (he blood of its inhabitants. Thirty three years have
elapsed since traders began to go there for wood, and they
were determined to get it even at the price of blood. These
are specimens of the deeds of darkness ana violence commit-
ted by foreigners destitute alike of rhe fear of God and of the
generous impulses of humanity. The gospel alone can erase
the impressions left on the mind of* the savage by unirodly
men- It alone can soothe his irritated fe^^lings, and calm
his angry passions. It alcne will be a redress for every
Avrong. But, what of those who have already gone down to
cheerless, hopeless tombs, unblessed, unsaved, ancl with a keen
sense of their wrongs and oppressions rankling in their
lacerated souls ? Alas ! there is naught of good in unavailin<^
regrets. The poor savage! Tho' unable to discriminate
between the [)recioiis and the vile, or to ai)preciat« aright the
favor of the good, he knew what it was to writhe under the
lash of oppression and violence. But they have thrust away
the hands which were endeavoring to pour into their wounded
spirits the healing balm. The thirsty ground has drunk alike
native and foreign blood ; and now in the land of silence
mingles dust dear to God and the ashes of the unblest savacre.
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injiirios we have not done. The slain are now beyond the
reach of mercy's voice, or affection's kind solicitude. At the
living, then, live Cliristians, grasp, and strive to snatch them
from the jaws of the gaping lion,aiid the yawning month of hell.
'Tis alarming to think ot the un-numbered hosts who have
perished without vision. Not one cheering ray ever glcam.s
through the gloom of the impassable gulf ; and the shadow
of that impenetrable darkness in which they lie enshrouded
remains for ever unpierced by the beams of hope.
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