a view of wearing also a pacific appearance, Mr Brown, on his part, ordered the tomahawks, boarding-pikes, and other arms to be removed below. In the evening, after the natives had gone on shore, the carpenter and sail-maker represented to Mr Brown the propriety of having the muskets up, and placing centinels on deck to keep the natives off, as their number prevented them from working; but, unfortunately, too self-willed and obstinate, he treated every wholesome admonition with indifference, and no such measures were taken.

The following fatal morning, Monday, the 1st December 1806, at eight o'clock, the natives began to assemble on board, and soon increased to 300 in different parts of the ship. About nine o'clock, Tooi Tooi, the Sandwich islander before mentioned, came on board, and invited Mr Brown to go on shore, and view the country; who immediately complied, and went unarmed. About half an hour after he had left the ship, Mr Mariner, who was in the steerage, went to the hatch for the sake of the light to mend a pen, when, looking up, he saw Mr Dixon standing on a gun, endeavouring, by his signs, to prevent more of the natives coming on board. At this moment he heard a loud shout from the Indians, and saw one of them knock Mr Dixon down with his club. Too surely convinced what now was the matter, 'he ran towards the gun-room, when an Indian caught hold of him by the hand, but, escaping from his grasp, ran down the scuttle, where he found the cooper. Considering the magazine the safest place, they ran immediately there; and having consulted what was best to be done, they came to the resolution of blowing up the vessel, and,

like Samson of old, to sacrifice themselves and their enemies together. Bent upon this desperate enterprise, Mr Mariner repaired to the gun-room to procure flint and steel, but was not able to get at the muskets without making too much noise, for the arm-chest lay beneath the boarding-pikes, which had carelessly been thrown down the scuttle the preceding evening; and the noise occasioned by clearing them away, as the uproar above began to cease, would undoubtedly have attracted the notice of the Indians. He therefore returned to the magazine, where he found the cooper in great distress from the apprehension of his impending fate. Mr Mariner next proposed that they should go at once upon deck, and meet their fate, while their enemies were hot with slaughter, rather than, by greater delay, subject themselves to the cruelties of cooler barbarity; and, after some hesitation, the cooper consented to follow if Mr Mariner would lead the way. The latter thereupon went to the gun-room, and lifting up the hatch a little, saw Tooi Tooi and Vaca-taBola examining Captain Duck's sword and other arms that were in his bed-place. Their backs being turned, he lifted off the hatch entirely, and jumped up into the cabin. Tooi Tooi instantly turning round, Mr Mariner presented his hands open, to signify that he was unarmed and at their mercy; then uttering aroghah!. (a word of friendly salutation among the Sandwich islanders) he asked him, partly in English, and partly in his own language, whether he meant to kill him, as he was ready to meet his fate. Tooi Tooi replied in broken English, that he should not be hurt, as the chiefs were already in possession of the ship, but

that he wished to be informed how many persons there were below. To this Mr Mariner answered, that there was only one; and called up the cooper, who had slowly followed him. Tooi Tooi then led them upon deck towards one of the chiefs, who had the direction of the conspiracy.

The first object that struck Mr Mariner's sight, on coming upon deck, was enough to thrill the stoutest heart. Upon the companion a short squab naked figure, about fifty years of age, was seated, with a seaman's jacket soaked in blood, thrown over one shoulder; on the other rested his iron-wood club, spattered with blood and brains: while the frightfulness of his appearance was increased by a constant blinking with one of his eyes, and a horrible convulsive motion on one side of his mouth. On another part of the deck there lay twenty-two bodies perfectly naked, and arranged side by side in regular order, but so dreadfully bruised and battered about the head, that only two or three of them could be recognised. At this time a man had just counted them, and was reporting the number to the chief; immediately after which they began to throw them overboard. On Mr Mariner and the cooper being brought into his presence, he looked at them awhile and smiled, probably on account of their dirty appearance. Mr Mariner was then given in charge to a petty chief to be taken on shore, but the cooper was detained on board.

In his way to the shore the chief stripped him of his shirt. The circumstance of his having just escaped death was by no means a consolation to him. Reserved he knew not for what hardships, he felt his mind hardened by a sort of careless in

difference as to what might happen; and if he had any consoling hope at all, it was that he might be going on shore to fall by the club of some sanguinary chief not sated with that day's slaughter.

In a little while he was landed, and led to the most northern part of the island, to a place called Co-oolo, where he saw, without being much affected at the sight, the cause of all that day's disasters, Mr Brown, the whaling-master, lying dead upon the beach: his body naked, and much bruised about the head and chest. They asked Mr Mariner, by words and signs, if they had done right in killing him; and as he returned them no answer, one of them lifted up his club to knock out his brains, but was prevented by a superior chief, who ordered them to take their prisoner on board a large sailing canoe. Whilst here, he observed upon the beach an old man, whose countenance did not speak much in his favour, parading up and down with a club in his hand. At the same time a boy, who had just come into the canoe, pointed to a fire at a little distance, and, addressing himself to Mr Mariner, pronounced the word máte* (meaning to kill), and made such signs as gave him to understand nothing less than that he was to be killed and roasted. This idea roused him from his state of mental torpor, and gave him much alarm, which was not lessened by the sight of the old man just mentioned, who appeared in no other light than that of an executioner waiting for his victim. About half an hour

The word mate (pronounced something like murtay) is the common word throughout the South Sea Islands for Mr M. had learnt it at the Sandwich Islands.

"to kill.

afterwards, a number of people came to the canoe, landed him, and led him towards the fire, near which he saw, lying dead, James Kelly, William Baker, and James Hoay, three of those who had first mutinied. Some hogs were now brought to be cooked; and Mr Mariner was undeceived respecting what he had understood from the gestures of the boy in the canoe, who, it was now evident, merely meant to imply that some of Mr Mariner's countrymen lay dead where he pointed, and that there they were going to roast or bake some hogs.

From this place he was led towards the island of Foa. On the way they stopped at a hut, where they stripped him of his trowsers, notwithstanding his earnest solicitations to retain them; for he already felt the effect of the sun upon his back, and dreaded a total exposure to its heat. He was then led about bare-footed, and without any thing to cover him, the heat blistering his skin in a most painful manner. Every now and then some of the natives came up to him from motives of curiosity, felt his skin to compare it with their own, or likened it rather (as he afterwards understood) to the skin of a scraped hog, from its whiteness, while from malice, or rather wantonness, others spat upon him, pushed him about, and threw sticks and cocoa-nut shells at him, so that his head was cut in several places. After having thus tantalized and led him about for a considerable length of time, as fast as the soreness of his feet would permit him to walk, a woman happening to pass, from motives of compassion, gave him an apron made of the leaves of the chee-tree, with which he was permitted to cover himself. At length they entered a hut,