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+</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[1]</span></p> + + <h1 class='mt1'>WRECKED<br> + AMONG CANNIBALS<br> + IN THE FIJIS</h1> + +<p class='center fs150'><i>A NARRATIVE OF<br> + SHIPWRECK & ADVENTURE<br> + IN THE SOUTH SEAS</i></p> + +<p class='center fs80 mt2'>BY</p> +<p class='center'>WILLIAM ENDICOTT</p> +<p class='center fs60'>Third Mate of the Ship <i>Glide</i></p> + +<p class='center fs60 mth'><i>with Notes by</i></p> +<p class='center mth'>LAWRENCE WATERS JENKINS</p> +<p class='center fs60'>Assistant-Director of the Peabody Museum<br> + of Salem</p> + +<div class='center mt2'> +<figure class="figcenter illowp15" id="colophon" style="max-width: 19.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/colophon.jpg" alt="Publisher's Colophon"> +</figure> +</div> + +<p class='center mt2'> MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY</p> +<p class='center fs80'> SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS</p> +<p class='center fs90'> 1923</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[2]</span></p> + +<p class='center mt2'>PUBLICATION NUMBER THREE</p> +<p class='center mth fs90'>OF THE</p> +<p class='center mth'>MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY</p> +<p class='center mth'>SALEM, MASS.</p> + +<p class='center mt6'>COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY</p> +<p class='center mth'>THE MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY</p> + +<p class='center mt6 fs80'>PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES</p> +<p class='center mth fs80'>THE SOUTHWORTH PRESS</p> +<p class='center mth fs80'>PORTLAND, MAINE</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span></p> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS"> + CONTENTS + </h2> +</div> + +<table class='toc'> + <tr><td><a href="#ILLUSTRATIONS"><span class="smcap">List of Illustrations</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_5'>5</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href="#INTRODUCTION"><span class="smcap">Introduction</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_7'>7</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href="#WILLIAM_ENDICOTTS_NARRATIVE"><span class="smcap">William Endicott’s Narrative</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_15'>15</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href="#A_CANNIBAL_FEAST_AT_THE_FEJEE"><span class="smcap">A Cannibal Feast at the Fiji Islands</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_55'>55</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href='#Vocab_Fiji'><span class="smcap">Vocabulary of the Fiji Islands</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_71'>71</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href='#Vocab_Wallis'><span class="smcap">Vocabulary of Wallis Island</span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_75'>75</a></td></tr> + <tr><td><a href="#CREW"><span class="smcap">List of Officers and Crew on the Ship <i>Glide</i></span></a></td><td class='tdr'><a href='#Page_76'>76</a></td></tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="ILLUSTRATIONS"> + ILLUSTRATIONS + </h2> +</div> + +<table class='loi'> +<tr> + <td colspan='2'><a href='#i_frontis'><span class="smcap">Ship Glide of Salem</span></a> + <span class='fr'><i>Frontispiece</i></span></td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p> From a water-color painted at Marseilles in 1823 by Anton Roux, Jr.</p></td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_015'><span class="smcap">William Endicott</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>15</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>From a photograph made about 1860.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_020'><span class="smcap">Fijian Men</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>20</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p> From a photograph made in 1898.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_029'><span class="smcap">Ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>29</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>From a water-color in the possession of the Old Dartmouth + Historical Society, New Bedford.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_034'><span class="smcap">Fiji War Clubs</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>34</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Presented to the East India Marine Society of Salem between 1823 + and 1834. Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_040'><span class="smcap">Fijian House</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>40</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>From a photograph made in 1898.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_044'><span class="smcap">Model of a Fiji Double Canoe</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>44</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Brought to the United States in 1856 by Capt. Thomas C. Dunn, + while on the bark <i>Dragon</i> of Salem. Now in the Peabody Museum + of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_050'><span class="smcap">Ship Chinchilla of New York</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>50</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>“Scrimshawed” on a whale’s tooth. Presented to the East India + Marine Society of Salem in 1825, by Capt. William Osgood. Now in + the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p> + <a href='#i_052'><span class="smcap">A Shoal of Sperm Whale off the Island of Hawaii in 1833</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>52</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>From an engraving by J. Hill after a painting by +T. Birch. The picture shows the famous +Roach (Rotch) whaling fleet,—the <i>Enterprise</i>, <i>Wm. +Roach</i>, <i>Pocahontas</i> and <i>Houqua</i>, all from Nantucket.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_056'><span class="smcap">Fijian Women</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>56</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Wearing “maiden locks” indicating that they are + unmarried.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_066a'><span class="smcap">Tooth of a Fijian Cannibal</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>66</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Presented to the Essex Institute in 1851 by Capt. + John H. Eagleston who stated that it was “A tooth + from Na Massa Ngaloa, the greatest cannibal that + ever lived, head chief of Rewa, Fiji Islands. Twenty + years since conquered most of the islands in the + archipelago; since died aged about sixty years. + Eleven years ago became Christian—baptised Ratu + Mill.” Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_066b'><span class="smcap">Model of a Bure or Fiji Temple</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>66</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Such models were presented to the temples as + offerings. Given to the East India Marine Society + of Salem, by Capt. Joseph Winn, Jr., in 1835. Now + in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> + +<tr> + <td><a href='#i_068'><span class="smcap">Objects from Fiji</span></a></td> + <td class='tdr'>68</td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td class='desc'> + <p>Presented to the East India Marine Society of + Salem and The Essex Institute between 1831 and + 1860. Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </td> + <td></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION"> + INTRODUCTION + </h2> +</div> + +<p class='first'><span class='allcaps'>A hundred</span> years ago the young men and +boys living in New England seacoast towns +could easily find in the forecastles of locally +built ships, an opportunity to gratify a desire +for adventure and a sight of foreign lands. Many of +their shipmates would be neighbors or come from +nearby towns and all who intended to follow the sea +looked forward with anticipation and pride to the +day when they might be able to ship as an officer or +be given the command of a vessel. It was no unusual +thing at that time for officers and captains to be under +twenty years of age and the ship and the sea +then possessed a romance and a lure not to be found +in the present-day age of steam. The following narrative +describes in matter-of-fact language, the experiences +of one of these twenty-year old lads who +shipped out of Salem, Massachusetts, as third officer +in a fine ship bound for the South Seas.</p> + +<p>The ship <i>Glide</i>, of 306 tons burden, was built in +Salem in 1811 for Joseph Peabody and Samuel +Tucker and made thirteen voyages to the Mediterranean, +Archangel, South America, India and the +East Indies. In 1829 she was sent on a trading voyage +to the South Seas under the command of Capt. +Henry Archer. Most of her crew were young men +and some were green hands. After doubling the +Cape of Good Hope a course was set for New Zealand +where fresh provisions, wood and water were +taken aboard. At that time it was possible to obtain +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[8]</span> +for a small piece of tobacco or some trading article +of trifling cost, finely carved and ornamented war-spears +and canoe paddles and curiously figured +shawls made from the native flax,—articles now +highly valued by museums and collectors. While +there the ship was visited by Pomare, the principal +chief in that part of the island, who brought with +him his favorite wife. He was a fine-looking man +wearing a blanket fastened over his right shoulder +and his face and thighs were tattooed in graceful +scrolls. She was handsome for a New Zealander, +wore a blanket fastened over her left shoulder and +her lips and chin were tattooed.</p> + +<p>After a voyage of 142 days from Salem, the <i>Glide</i> +reached Narai, one of the Fijis, where fresh provisions +were taken aboard. A common musket +worth only two or three dollars could be traded for +a dozen large hogs and a pair of scissors or a jackknife +was valued at a bunch of plantains or forty +cocoanuts. When it came to exchanging trading +goods for the native labor necessary to obtain the +beche-le-mer—the principal article of trade in the +islands—a common chisel made by the blacksmith +on board from old hoop iron could be bartered for +a day’s labor. To earn a chisel the islander must +leave his hut early in the morning, sail fifteen or +twenty miles to the reef and then work knee-deep +in the water for six or eight hours gathering the +beche-le-mer, a species of sea snail; after which he +must carry his spoil to the ship—and all for a barrel-hoop +chisel! The trading goods most esteemed +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span> +in the Fijis at that time were iron tools, knives, +scissors, whale’s teeth, beads and trinkets, but especially +muskets, pistols and ammunition.</p> + +<p>The place selected for trade was reached about +the middle of October, 1829, and after negotiating +with the local chief, his people were employed in +building three houses,—a “batter house,” a hundred +feet long, thirty wide and twenty high, where +the beche-le-mer were dried and cured after boiling; +a “pot house,” open on all sides, in which the forty-gallon +pots were placed to boil the sea snails; and +a “trade house,” a building about fifteen feet long, +ten wide and eight high, in which trading goods +brought in the ship were stored and so made easily +available for barter.</p> + +<p>The beche-le-mer when found on the reefs are +about eight inches long and three inches thick. They +are of a dark brown color, have a rough skin which +is thickly covered with slime, and are easily taken. +Exposure to the air has little effect upon them. +After having been purchased by the trading master +they are placed in a shallow pool made near the +shore where the sea-water flows in at high tide and +here the snails are cleaned of slime and then taken +to the pot house and boiled about forty minutes. +After drying they become hard and are then sent +aboard the ship, packed in matting bags and stowed +away. When properly cured beche-le-mer will remain +in good condition for several years. It requires +the Chinese palate to wholly appreciate the peculiar +delicacy of its flavor when cooked and served as a +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span> +table dainty and it was to the Chinese market in +Manilla that the <i>Glide’s</i> cargo was taken and sold.</p> + +<p>As the natives were a warlike race and the different +tribes were constantly engaged in fighting, the +dozen men who remained on shore in charge of the +trading house and the curing of the beche-le-mer, +went fully armed. The <i>Glide</i>, also, presented a warlike +appearance. Heavy cannon loaded with cannister +and grape-shot appeared at every port-hole +and on deck and below weapons were placed so that +they were available at an instant’s notice. In each +top there was a chest of arms and ammunition and +“boarding nettings, eight or ten feet wide, were triced +up around the ship by tackles and shipping lines +suspended from the extremities of the lower yardarms.”⁠<a id="FNanchor_1_1" href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +This seemed very necessary as nearly two +thousand natives were employed in gathering and +curing the beche-le-mer to complete the cargoes of +the <i>Glide</i> and the <i>Quill</i>, a brig hailing from Salem, +that came in not long after the <i>Glide</i> reached Miambooa +Bay.</p> + +<p>Severe storms at times prevail in the Fijis and +twice the <i>Glide</i> narrowly escaped shipwreck. On the +evening of March 21, 1831, a hard gale came up unexpectedly +and all night the shrill voice of the leadsman +called at intervals, “She drags! She drags!” +The next morning at about eleven o’clock, after +having dragged her anchors for a distance of nearly +eight miles, the ship drove on a shore-reef projecting +from the island of Vanua Levu and soon became +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span> +a total wreck. In the following pages, William Endicott, +the third officer of the <i>Glide</i>, describes the +events of the voyage and gives an interesting account +of the natives among whom he lived for several +months; supplying also a short vocabulary of +their language.</p> + +<p>William Endicott, who wrote this narrative, was +the son of Israel and Betsey (Rea) Endicott of +Danvers, Mass., and was born there July 7, 1809. +He came of a family of sailors and shipmasters and +at the age of fifteen went to sea for a voyage to the +west coast of South America, in the ship <i>China</i>, +Capt. Hiram Putnam. There the ship was loaded +with copper and the voyage home made by way of +Manilla, China and Calcutta. It was during the +homeward passage through the South Seas that Endicott +learned of the trade in beche-le-mer. The first +officer of the ship was Henry Archer, Jr., a Salem +man, and on reaching home he proposed to Joseph +Peabody, the great Salem shipowner and merchant, +that a voyage be made to the South Seas to obtain +beche-le-mer to be traded for Chinese goods. The +venture promised large profits and Archer was given +command of the ship <i>Glide</i> and he shipped young +Endicott as his third mate. This was Endicott’s last +voyage to sea and on reaching home he engaged in +the morocco leather business and in 1861 was commissioned +an inspector in the Salem Custom House. +He died Sept. 25, 1881, in Danvers.</p> + +<p>The journal of the voyage to the Fijis, kept by +him, was given to the Peabody Museum of Salem +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span> +by his children and is now printed for the first time +by the kind permission of the Museum authorities +who have also supplied valuable material to illustrate +the volume. Accompanying the journal was a +log book, kept during the voyage, from which additional +information has been abstracted and is included +among the footnotes. Mr. Israel O. Endicott, +a son of William Endicott, has obligingly furnished +biographical information. Thanks are also +due to Mr. Charles C. Willoughby, Director of the +Peabody Museum of Archæology and Ethnology, +Cambridge, Mr. Perry Walton, Boston, The Essex +Institute and Mr. Henry W. Wright, Salem, for assistance +in illustrating the book.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_1_1" href="#FNanchor_1_1" class="label">[1]</a> See <i>Wreck of the Glide</i>, Boston, 1846.</p></div></div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak mt6 mb6" id="WILLIAM_ENDICOTTS_NARRATIVE"> + WILLIAM ENDICOTT’S NARRATIVE + </h2> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<figure class="figcenter illowp72" id="i_015" style="max-width: 65.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_015.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + WILLIAM ENDICOTT + <p>From a photograph made about 1860.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p> + +<p class='center mt4 fs120'>WILLIAM ENDICOTT’S NARRATIVE</p> + +<p class='first mt1'><span class='k6'><span class='allcaps'>On</span></span> May 21st, 1829, I went on board the ship +<i>Glide</i>, then lying in Salem harbour, having +engaged to perform a voyage in her to the +South Pacific Ocean for the purpose of procuring a +cargo of beche-le-mer, tortoise shell and sandalwood. +At meridian, all hands being on board, we +got underweigh with a moderate east wind, and +stood out to sea with all sail set. At 5 P. M. we were +obliged to anchor outside the harbour where we lay +until the following day at 11 A. M. when we weighed +again and succeeded in getting to sea. We shaped +our course for the Cape de Verde Islands in order to +be sufficiently to the eastward where we expected to +meet the South East trades, and soon lost sight of +the American shores.</p> + +<p>Nothing of importance occurred on the passage +till the 15th of June, when we saw one of the Cape +de Verdes. We passed it and steered to the southward +till the 1st of July when we first met the South +East trade wind. We continued to steer to the +southward, by the wind, until we reached the latitude +of 32° south, when the wind becoming more +variable, enabled us to proceed more directly on our +course; to double the Cape of Good Hope, proceed +to the eastward and touch at New Zealand, as was +determined by the Captain, and to endeavour to +procure some fresh stock. After arriving into the +latitude of 40° south, we experienced a succession +of gales and blowing weather, which lasted with but +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span> +little cessation until the 31st of August, when we +saw Van Diemens Land,⁠<a id="FNanchor_2_2" href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> from whence we steered +direct for the northern part of New Zealand.</p> + +<p>The wind and weather proved favourable and on +the 14th of Sept. we saw the island of New Zealand +and on the 17th anchored in the Bay of Islands,⁠<a id="FNanchor_3_3" href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> +117 days from Salem, with one man sick.</p> + +<p>We found in this place three English whale ships⁠<a id="FNanchor_4_4" href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> +and one merchant brig.⁠<a id="FNanchor_5_5" href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> The natives, although engaged +in wars and fighting with themselves and being +exceedingly fierce and savage, treated us very +well and sold us hogs and vegetables in great plenty +for muskets, powder, tools, cloth and tobacco. We +generally were well pleased with them excepting the +strong propensity they had to steal.</p> + +<p>The English Mission has a large establishment +in this place guarded by a fort, and have succeeded +tolerably well in informing the natives and in particular +in putting a stop to the horrid practice of +eating the dead bodies of their enemies.⁠<a id="FNanchor_6_6" href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span></p> + +<p>We purchased six of the natives from one of the +Chiefs, who we intended to employ in procuring our +cargo; and after getting a supply of fresh stock, +wood and water, we sailed from this port and +steered to the north west intending to touch at the +Tonga Islands before we went among the Fegeis, in +order to lay in a good supply of vegetables and hogs +which are in greater plenty at the Tonga Islands +than at New Zealand.</p> + +<p>After leaving the land we found the weather boisterous +for a few days until we reached the south +east trades when it proved mild and pleasant and +on the 6th of October, we saw one of the group called +Friendly Islands⁠<a id="FNanchor_7_7" href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> by Capt. Cook and Tonga by the +natives. We ran in near to the shore when the natives +came off in great numbers in their canoes +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span> +bringing great quantities of cocoanuts, yams, plantains, +hogs and fowls, besides different kinds of +fruit, which they readily sold for cloth, beads, etc. +As we had plenty of trade which we brought from +the United States for the purpose we soon purchased +a sufficiency of fresh stock and vegetables.</p> + +<p>The natives were of a copper complexion and +were of very handsome features and appeared very +friendly to us and well pleased with our trade. They +were nearly naked having only a small covering +over the middle and a few small ornaments round +their necks and in the ears.</p> + +<p>On the 8th, having purchased a sufficient quantity +of stock, we left the Islands and steered for the +Fegee Islands,⁠<a id="FNanchor_8_8" href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> our destined port, where we expected +to procure our cargo and where we should be +obliged to stop some months.</p> + +<p>These are a cluster of islands situated in the Pacific +Ocean between the latitudes of 15° and 18° +south and the longitudes of 178° and 180° east and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span> +very much resemble the West Indies, being very +fertile and producing nearly all the fruits and vegetables +found at those islands and being situated between +the Tropics, the climate is much the same.</p> + +<p>Mountains of considerable size are to be found +among them though they would be generally considered +as low islands. They are surrounded by coral +reefs and shoals of sand which renders navigation +extremely dangerous though they serve to protect +many harbours and bays from the sea. Although +situated in the immediate vicinity of the +S. E. trade wind, the wind does not prevail at any +particular point, but is generally very variable and +subject to frequent changes.</p> + +<p>These islands are inhabited by a race of people +who differ very much from the other uncivilized +nations in the South Pacific Ocean, in customs, language +and particularly their complexion which is +much darker and approaches very near to the Negroes. +In stature they are larger than most Europeans +and like other Indians are very straight and +well built and it is not uncommon to see persons of +elegant figure.⁠<a id="FNanchor_9_9" href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> They are extremely fierce and savage, +frequently at war⁠<a id="FNanchor_10_10" href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> with each other and are addicted +to the horrid practice of eating their enemies +when killed in battle.⁠<a id="FNanchor_11_11" href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span></p> + +<p>On the 10th of October, 1829, we arrived among +the group and passed Turtle Island,⁠<a id="FNanchor_12_12" href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> the southernmost +of the cluster, steering to the northward intending +to anchor in Miamboo Bay, which lay +about 100 miles distant, where we expected to commence +trading for our cargo. We continued sailing +through the passages between the islands (which by +reason of the imperfection of our chart, and the islands +being improperly surveyed, was rendered extremely +dangerous and difficult), until the 18th of +the month, when we started from an island (under +the lee of which we had to lay by through the night, +it being too difficult to proceed till daylight) and +steered for the passage through a very large reef of +coral.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp48" id="i_020" style="max-width: 70.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_020.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + FIJIAN MEN + <p>From a photograph made in 1898.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>At 11 A. M. we found our ship safe through the +reef but in a very dangerous situation being surrounded +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> +by sunken rocks and shoals. We continued +sailing for the Bay which was about 40 miles distant, +avoiding the rocks as soon as they could be +seen, until 1.30 P. M. when a rock was seen directly +ahead of the ship. Every effort was made to avoid +the danger but it proved of no avail and she immediately +struck on her larboard bow about 12 +miles from the Bay. We lay’d the sails aback and +she went off when we sounded the pumps and found +she leak’d 1400 strokes per hour.</p> + +<p>After getting clear of the rocks we anchored with +the stream and sent the boat well arm’d to examine +the Bay. The boat returned in the evening and at +daylight we proceeded to get the anchor up but +found it impossible without great danger to the ship. +Accordingly the cable was cut and at meridian we +arrived in Miamboo Bay, Oct. 19th, 1829, Civil Account.⁠<a id="FNanchor_13_13" href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></p> + +<p>On examining the leak we found the keel split +badly and the ship injured so much as it would become +necessary to repair her before we could prosecute +our voyage, but we found no place where we +could heave her down or haul her on shore with +safety. Having understood from the natives that +there was another vessel at a place 90 miles distant, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> +called Bow,⁠<a id="FNanchor_14_14" href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> we dispatched a boat to procure assistance +and also any information that would be of +service to us in our unfortunate situation.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile we proceeded to stop the leak, as well +as circumstances would permit, until the 20th, when +to our great joy we discovered a sail standing for +the Bay. At 5 P. M. she anchored and proved to be +the brig <i>Quill</i>⁠<a id="FNanchor_15_15" href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> of Salem, Capt. J. Kinsman, from +the Island of Bow. They informed us of the danger +of our boat from the natives when another boat was +immediately dispatched in charge of the first officer⁠<a id="FNanchor_16_16" href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> +of the <i>Quill</i>, to find the other boat. Oct. 23rd, +both boats arrived safe.</p> + +<p>Finding it impossible to repair the ship on the +shore it was determined to construct a raft from the +ship’s spars and the lumber in the ship and to heave +the ship down in the Bay, to the raft, Capt. Kinsman +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span> +kindly offering us his assistance and protection +from the natives.</p> + +<p>Got underweigh on October 22nd and anchored +near to the brig where we commenced transhipping +our cargo, stores, provisions, etc., on board of the +brig. After this was accomplish’d we proceeded to +strip the ship and construct the raft with the spars, +etc. We had an interview with the principal Chief of +the Island, on Oct. 25th, and purchased some cocoanut +trees of him for our raft by means of which, on +the 1st of November, we completed it to our satisfaction. +After securing and preparing the ship we +attempted to heave her down but found no rope in +either vessel of sufficient strength. The next day, +however, we succeeded in making a rope and hove +the ship keel out and found the stem started over to +starboard, the wood-ends started considerably, the +keel split, etc.</p> + +<p>As it was impossible to right the stem in our present +circumstances, it was determined to secure it as +it was by means of iron clamps, which the armourers +of both vessels proceeded to make on board of +the brig, and to stop the leak as much as possible +with wedges, sheathing and tar.</p> + +<p>On Nov. 9th, 1829, we received a visit from Capt. +Maurice of the brig <i>Morliana</i> of Woaho,⁠<a id="FNanchor_17_17" href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> lying +about 60 miles distance.</p> + +<p>On the 19th of November, after much trouble and +after surmounting many difficulties we succeeded in +finishing the repairs and when we righted the ship, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span> +found we had stopped the leak. We also found that +two of our New Zealanders had run away from us +and gone to live with the Fegee natives. In the +meantime the brig <i>Quill</i> had commenced curing +beche-le-mer.</p> + +<p>By the 24th we had succeeded in getting all our +cargo, provisions, ballast, etc., on board and commenced +rigging the ship. The Captain then contracted +with one of the principal Chiefs to build +three houses on shore for the purpose of curing +beche-le-mer at a place called Sub-a-Sub, and on the +9th of December, the first and third officers, with 10 +men, went on shore, the houses having been completed, +and commenced purchasing beche-le-mer of +the natives.</p> + +<p>The beche-le-mer⁠<a id="FNanchor_18_18" href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> is a sort of animal found on +the sandy reefs, which very much resembles a leech +or blood-sucker in shape, but is much larger. They +are supposed to get their sustenance from the slime, +which collects on the reefs and shoals so numerous +among these islands. The natives obtain them by +going onto the reefs when the tide is low, collecting +them in baskets made for the purpose from the +leaves of the cocoanut tree. They brought them on +to the beach near to our house where we purchased +them. We then carried the fish into the pot-house +and boiled them; then into the drying-house where +they were dried by means of fire. When they are +considered as cured they are much reduced in size +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span> +and very hard, but when stowed in the ship they +soon become more soft and very much resemble India +rubber.</p> + +<p>We employed great numbers of the natives, frequently +upwards of 80 canoes averaging 10 men +each, besides great numbers on shore procuring +wood (of which we used great quantities) and assisting +us in curing the cargo. The principal articles +of trade were muskets, ammunition, whales’ teeth, +iron tools, beads and ornaments. Tortoise shell and +sandalwood we also purchased of the natives. The +turtles they catch with large nets made of the fibres +of the cocoanut husk in the making of which they +are very expert.</p> + +<p>On the 10th of December we got underweigh and +ran in towards the shore near to our fish houses and +proceeded to finish rigging the ship and repairing +damages. After three or four days, finding it difficult +to proceed from our unacquaintance with their +language, we shipped an interpreter⁠<a id="FNanchor_19_19" href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> from the brig +<i>Quill</i>, also a number of seamen who were acquainted +with the method of curing the fish. We also purchased +the kettle of Capt. Kinsman (ours being too +small to make any progress) and proceeded to purchase +the fish of the natives again.</p> + +<p>On the 21st the brig <i>Quill</i> sailed for Manilla, +having on board about 800 piculs⁠<a id="FNanchor_20_20" href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a> of beche-le-mer, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span> +tortoise shell, etc. She returned on the 23rd, in consequence +of a head-wind, but sailed again on the +first of January.</p> + +<p>Jan. 11th, 1830, Seth Richardson died on board +the ship. He belonged to Salem and had been complaining +nearly all the voyage.</p> + +<p>We continued curing beche-le-mer on shore, while +those on board were putting the ship in order and +nothing particular occurred until the 30th of January +when the natives on shore maliciously set fire +to our houses and destroyed 60 piculs of beche-le-mer, +trade, clothes, etc., and the men with difficulty +got on board the ship, at midnight. The next morning +we discovered they had broken our kettles for +the purpose of getting the wrought iron. We found +their principal object in setting fire to our houses +was plunder and we immediately sent for the King⁠<a id="FNanchor_21_21" href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> +or principal Chief of the Bay. He came on board +and informed us that our houses, being built by an +inferior Chief, were more liable to be troubled by +the natives. He advised us to use the houses that +were employed by the brig <i>Quill</i>, as he built them +himself, and he being the King of the Island and +Bay, the natives would not dare to trouble them. +On the 2nd of February we commenced curing fish +in the houses of the King, the blacksmith having +mended the kettles.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p> + +<p>On the 10th, as the beche-le-mer began to grow +scarce on the reefs, it was determined on the advice +of the King to go to another bay, about 40 miles distant +and build new houses and employ the natives +in that place. On February 19th, the launch, in +charge of the 1st officer, was sent round to the Bay +with 10 men to prepare for curing the fish and two +days later, having taken on board all the things +from the shore, we got underweigh and stood out of +the Bay of Miamboo.</p> + +<p>On the 23rd, we arrived safe in the bay called +Aloa by the natives, and found the King with his +men had completed the houses and were all prepared +to prosecute the business of purchasing and +curing the beche-le-mer. Here we continued to cure +fish without any interruption till March 23rd, when +the interpreter was dispatched about 90 miles to a +place call’d Baratta to purchase hogs, with the +Chief of that place.</p> + +<p>We found on April 9th that we had upwards of +1000 piculs beche-le-mer, 350 pounds tortoise shell +and some sandalwood, so we settled with the natives +and burnt our houses⁠<a id="FNanchor_22_22" href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> and put the ship in readiness +to go to sea. Four days later the interpreter arrived, +bringing 90 hogs, and informed us that the +ship <i>Clay</i>,⁠<a id="FNanchor_23_23" href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> Capt. Millet, of Salem, was at Bow and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> +had brought letters from our friends which the interpreter +delivered to us.</p> + +<p>On April 15th, 1830, we got underweigh and +stood out of the bay of Aloa bound to Manilla. After +passing through the inner reef and thinking ourselves +safe at sea, we observed a very large coral +reef with no passage through it and it being near +night and the weather unfavourable, we immediately +tacked and endeavoured to gain the harbour we +had left; but finding it impossible, anchored outside, +near a small island⁠<a id="FNanchor_24_24" href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> with coral reefs and +breakers all around us. The wind increased through +the night to a violent gale obliging us to get our topmast +down and pay out all on both cables. It continued +to blow very hard for four days, the ship being +in a very dangerous situation with a large coral +reef only two cables length astern. Fortunately, on +the 20th, it moderated and we got our masts on end +and got underweigh and on the 22nd arrived safe in +Miamboo Bay where we lay till the 25th waiting for +a favourable wind to go to sea.</p> + +<p>On the 25th of April, 1830, we again got underweigh +and succeeded in passing out through the +passages to sea and steered direct for Manilla. We +had a tolerable passage and in fifty days saw the +island of Samar at the entrance of the Strait of St. +Bernadina and passing it proceeded through the +Strait and on the 22nd June anchored in the Bay of +Manilla, off Caviter, about nine miles from the city. +We found here one American ship and a number of +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span> +English⁠<a id="FNanchor_25_25" href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> and Spanish vessels. Got underweigh on +June 27th and ran up to the city with the ship for +the purpose of discharging our cargo, which was +sold to Chinese merchants as the beche-le-mer +forms an article of food and is eaten by the principal +Chinese.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_029" style="max-width: 103.75em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_029.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + SHIP ANN ALEXANDER OF NEW BEDFORD + <p>From a water-color in the possession of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>After having discharged the cargo and taken in a +sufficient quantity of ballast, we shipp’d 8 Manilla +sailors and put the ship in order for another voyage +to the Fegees, taking on board some stores, and on +the 17th of July we got underweigh and stood out +of the Bay, intending to touch at the Sandwich Islands +for the purpose of procuring water and fresh +stock. On the 22nd, having passed through the +Strait of St. Bernadino, we steered to the eastward +and soon lost sight of the land. We had a tedious +passage (though the weather was mild and pleasant) +owing to the light winds which prevailed for +most of the time. On the 16th of August we saw the +Caroline Islands and on the 18th the Ladrone Isles. +[On the 1st of Sept. spoke the ship “Zeneas Coffin,”⁠<a id="FNanchor_26_26" href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> +Capt. Joy of Nantucket on a cruise. On the 4th saw +a number of whales and other smaller fish. On the +22nd was boarded by a boat from the whale-ship +“Ann Alexander”⁠<a id="FNanchor_27_27" href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> of New Bedford, Capt. Howland, +on a cruise. On the 3rd of Oct. spoke ship +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span>“Hector,”⁠<a id="FNanchor_28_28" href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> Capt. Morse, of New Bedford, cruising +for whales.—<i>From Log Book.</i>] After a passage of +84 days arrived at the Sandwich Islands, and on the +9th of Oct. anchored in Mowee Roads.⁠<a id="FNanchor_29_29" href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a> Found in +this place one whale-ship⁠<a id="FNanchor_30_30" href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> and a number of small +schooners.</p> + +<p>We immediately commenced getting our water +and purchasing goats and vegetables for the use of +the ship’s company. Many of the natives came on +board and appeared very civil. The American Mission +appeared to be in a very flourishing condition. +A new church⁠<a id="FNanchor_31_31" href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a> nearly finished we observed and the +missionaries appeared to have succeeded very well +in reforming and civilizing the natives. We found +this a most excellent place for watering and for procuring +vegetables and fresh stock, etc., which we +purchased very, very cheap for iron tools, etc.</p> + +<p>On the 15th of October after having taken a sufficient +supply of water, stock, etc., we sailed, steering +to the southward, bound to the Fegees. We experienced +fine weather and a regular trade wind and +on the 6th of Novr. saw an island supposed to be +Penrhyn’s Island,⁠<a id="FNanchor_32_32" href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> which the Captain intended to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span> +touch at for the purpose of procuring some grass for +our live stock if possible. At 5 P. M. we were near +to the shore when the natives came off in great +numbers and appeared perfectly savage and fierce, +hallowing and shaking their spears.</p> + +<p>The Captain had given orders for every man on +board to arm himself and prepare to resist them +should they attempt to attack us. We endeavoured +to trade with them and had succeeded in purchasing +some cocoanuts when the Captain, in endeavouring +to persuade one of the natives to come on +board, another native fired his spear at the Captain +and slightly wounded him in the neck. He immediately +gave orders to fire at them which was accordingly +done and 7 or 8 of the natives were killed. We +immediately fill’d our sails and stood on our course +leaving the natives to bewail the visit of civilized +people to their uncivilized shores.</p> + +<p>Passed the Tonga Islands on Novr. 16th and on +the 18th saw Turtle Island, the southernmost of the +Fegee Group. We passed through the passages between +the island and on the 24th of Nov. anchored +off Ovalou,⁠<a id="FNanchor_33_33" href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> an island about 25 miles from Bow, +the principal town of the Fegee Islands, where the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span> +King of the whole group resides. Here the 1st Officer +and interpreter left the ship for Bow to have an +interview with the King [Tanoa] and on the 26th +he came on board in a very large double canoe with +some of his principal warriors and two of his wives. +The Captain purchased some tortoise shell of him +and contracted with him for 2 large houses on an +island a short distance from Bow where, on the 1st +Dec., we commenced curing beche-le-mer. The interpreter +and the Manilla men were employed on +shore with a number of English sailors which we +hired for the purpose, but finding the beche-le-mer +very scarce and the natives not well disposed towards +us it was determined to remove from this +place and endeavour to find some better place for +procuring a second cargo.</p> + +<p>Before we could get away a violent gale came on +from the northward, on the 16th of Dec. and as our +ship lay in an open roadstead, her situation became +dangerous and beginning to drift and the reefs but +a short distance astern, we let go both of our lower +anchors and got our top-gall-masts down. The gale +increased to such violence that our chain cable soon +parted and the stream,⁠<a id="FNanchor_34_34" href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a> being the only anchor we +had left on board, was immediately let go. That in +a short time parted also and the ship drifted within +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span> +a cable length of the breakers, the sea running +very high at the time. Our sheet cable still held on +and the gale moderating considerable we rode out +the gale until the next morning when the cable parted +and we drove on to the reef before sail could be +made on the ship. Fortunately for us the wind shifting +suddenly and blowing off shore we were able to +clear the rocks without doing the ship any injury.</p> + +<p>We made all sail and after passing out to sea +through the reefs we steered over towards the island +of Somer-Some,⁠<a id="FNanchor_35_35" href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> intending to purchase of the natives +the cables and anchors of the brig <i>Fawn</i>⁠<a id="FNanchor_36_36" href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> lately +shipwrecked there, as we were wholly destitute of +cables or anchors and it would be impossible to +prosecute the voyage without a new supply.</p> + +<p>Arriving at Somer-Some, on the 19th Dec. we +succeeded in procuring 3 anchors and 2 chain cables +which formerly belonged to the brig <i>Fawn</i> and +also some rigging, and proceeded towards the island +of Ovalou again to procure our anchors if possible +and get our things from the shore.</p> + +<p>On the 25th we anchored in the same place where +we lost the anchors, but found it impossible to regain +them so the boat was sent on shore to procure +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span> +stocks for the anchors we had on board. The next +day, while the carpenter was employed in cutting +the anchor stocks and the men were guarding him +from the natives, whom we were suspicious of from +their appearance, they rushed down from the mountains +and attacked our men who immediately fled +to the boat and succeeded in reaching it, excepting +two men belonging to Salem, Edmund Knight⁠<a id="FNanchor_37_37" href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> and +Joshua B. Derby, whom the natives killed with +their clubs, the latter having previously shot the +Chief of the tribe. They took the muskets and +stripped the dead bodies of our unfortunate men, +those in the boat not being able to prevent them. +Hearing the tumult in the ship, another boat was +dispatched, armed completely, and succeeded in +getting the bodies which we buried on shore. We +soon learned the natives intended to attack the ship +and immediately got our things on board and prepared +the ship for sea. We got underweigh on the +29th Dec. and stood out through the reefs to sea and +steered towards Miamboo Bay, where we anchored +on the 31st and the 1st and 3rd officers landed for +the purpose of passing over the mountains to Aloa +Bay, to contract with the King (our friend of the +former voyage) while the ship proceeded round to +the Bay.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp45" id="i_034" style="max-width: 66.375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_034.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + FIJIAN WAR CLUBS + </figcaption> +</figure> +<div class='poetry-container'> + <div class='poetry'> + <div class='stanza'> + <div class='verse'>1. Collected by Capt. Benjamin Vanderford in 1823</div> + <div class='verse'>2, 3, 4. Collected by Capt. Charles Millett in 1832</div> + <div class='verse'>5. Collected by Capt. William H. Brown in 1834</div> +</div></div></div> + <p class='center fs95'>Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem</p> + +<p class='mt1'>On the 1st Jan., 1831, the ship arrived in Aloa +Bay and anchored near the place where our houses +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span> +were building, the officers having contracted with +the Chief. On the 13th, the house being completed, +we commenced curing beche-le-mer. The 1st officer, +interpreter and ten men stayed on shore and the rest +of the ship’s company commenced repairing the rigging +which was found to be in a very bad condition. +The head of our main-mast was rotted nearly off +and after much trouble and delay a tree was found +of sufficient size for a fish,⁠<a id="FNanchor_38_38" href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> which was purchased of +the natives. On the 27th we completed our mast and +having refitted the rigging as well as circumstances +would permit we prepared to receive our cargo, hoping +to be able to prosecute our voyage without more +delay which from a succession of misfortunes and +accidents had been long protracted and was rendered +extremely tedious and thus far unprofitable.</p> + +<p>But we found our troubles were far from being at +an end for on the 29th we found our principal house +on fire which was burnt together with 100 piculs of +beche-le-mer, some trade, etc. Another delay was +unavoidable, but with the assistance of the King +and other Chiefs, another house was soon completed +and on the 4th of February we commenced +fishing again.</p> + +<p>We continued to cure beche-le-mer until the 13th +with but little success, when the natives attempted +to burn our houses again and appeared disposed to +attack the men on shore if an opportunity offered. +The Chiefs also seemed disposed to countenance +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[36]</span> +their tribes in their designs. We immediately +manned and armed the boats and sent them on +shore for the protection of our property and the +men. In the morning, a slight attack was made by +the natives on our people, but they were defeated +without any loss on our side. As we killed a number +of them and they perceived the superiority of our +muskets over their weapons, they retreated into the +woods. We got our things on board without any molestation +from the natives and immediately put the +ship in readiness for sea.</p> + +<p>Finding it impossible to procure a cargo in this +place we burnt the houses and got underweigh and +stood out of the bay intending to proceed to Mutt-Water,⁠<a id="FNanchor_39_39" href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> +a town and bay on the north end of the island, +where we arrived on the 17th and anchored +near the shore about a musket-shot distance from +the principal chief’s town. We immediately had an +interview with the Chief and agreed with him to +furnish houses for the purpose of curing beche-le-mer, +the Chiefs agreeing to furnish canoes and men +to man them, the 2nd Chief of the place, who was +much loved and respected by the natives, agreeing +to stay on board the ship, as a hostage for our men +and property on shore. By the 21st of February the +house was completed and we commenced purchasing +and curing beche-le-mer.</p> + +<p>We continued curing the fish and nothing particular +occurred until the 22nd March, 1831, by which +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[37]</span> +time we had procured about 500 piculs of beche-le-mer +and 300 pounds of tortoise shell. An accident +then befell us which not only ruined our voyage but +by which we lost all our property and were cast on +the mercy of savages whose fierceness and ferocity +are not equalled on the South Seas.</p> + +<p>Our ship lay in a channel between a small island +and the north end of the island of Tackanova⁠<a id="FNanchor_40_40" href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> on +which was the town and our beche-le-mer establishment +at a short distance from the ship. The 1st officer, +three of the crew, the Manilla men and several +English sailors, whom we employed, were on shore +curing beche-le-mer, when an <i>excessive hard gale</i> +came on from E. S. E. about 8 P. M. on the 21st. At +ten, all hands were call’d and the sheet anchor let +go, but as the other cable was payed all out it could +bring no strain until the ship began to drift. It continuing +to blow very hard and every appearance of a +hard gale coming, we proceeded to get our yards and +masts down and at 3 P. M. having got the top-gall-masts +and main-top-masts down we found the ship +drifting and immediately let go the small chain-anchors, +one of which was back’d with the ship’s +kedge, and payed out a long scope on all the cables. +We also got down the fore-top-masts and lower +yards. At 9.30, the wind increasing and the ship +having drifted so far as to be exposed to the sea, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[38]</span> +which had now become very high and confused, we +payed out the bitter end⁠<a id="FNanchor_41_41" href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> of all the cables.</p> + +<p>At 10 A. M. we perceived by the land, which could +only be seen at intervals, that the ship had drifted 7 +or 8 miles along the coast and was in a most dangerous +situation, the current setting against us and +the wind having increased to a hurricane, the sea +running very high. Breakers were all round us and +there seemed but little chance to save the ship, so +we cut away the lower masts and with them went +almost every moveable thing from the deck. The +breakers were soon seen astern and at about 11 A. +M. the ship struck on the shore reef, having drifted +10 miles from her anchorage. The sea soon drove +her upon the reef where she bilged and fell over on +her side, heeling in towards the land and protecting +us from the sea which beat against her with great +violence.</p> + +<p>We were fortunate in having a chief⁠<a id="FNanchor_42_42" href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> on board of +considerable influence with the natives, who advised +us to land if possible and proceed to the town, +as the mountaineers would come on board for plunder +and would not scruple to take our lives which +he could not possibly prevent. Accordingly the ship +was delivered to the chief and we proceeded to clear +away the boats. Our launch went adrift and was lost +in the beginning of the gale and when we lowered a +quarter boat it immediately went to pieces. In the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[39]</span> +two left, we, after much difficulty and danger, succeeded +in reaching the shore in safety with no property +but our clothes.</p> + +<p>We soon met with a party of mountaineers, exceedingly +fierce, who robbed us of our clothes, hardly +leaving each one with a single garment, it not being +in our power to prevent them, and leaving us +exposed naked to the storm, without any shelter and +perfectly ignorant of the road to the King’s town,⁠<a id="FNanchor_43_43" href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> +nor would any one of them be prevailed upon to +show us the way. The savages soon left us and we +proceeded on our way towards the town but from +our ignorance of the right paths and the fury of the +storm, our travelling was rendered exceedingly difficult +and tiresome. The next morning, however, we +found ourselves all safe in the King’s town. The +King⁠<a id="FNanchor_44_44" href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a> and all the principal inhabitants had gone +aboard the ship and the five that remained gave us +the largest house where, without provisions of any +kind and knowing our fate would not be determined +until the arrival of the King and his men, we were +forced to wait in a painful suspense two days.</p> + +<p>After the gale had abated, the King came up from +the ship, having plundered her of everything except +the salt provisions and bread, and after a consultation +with his priests and warriors, he proclaimed +that our lives should be spared, that houses should +be prepared for us and that we might be permitted +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[40]</span> +to secure what provisions from the ship we could. +After hearing this law passed by the King and feeling +confident it would be violated on no account, +without his orders, our minds were greatly relieved +and our spirits, which had been greatly depressed +with our misfortunes, rose high with the hope of +once more seeing our native country and leaving +these savage shores where we had experienced, from +the time we first arrived among them, so much trouble +and so many misfortunes.</p> + +<p>The King having lent us one of his large canoes, +with which and our small boat (the only one sav’d +from the wreck) we proceeded down to the ship for +provisions. We found the natives greatly excited +with their prize. The chief, however (who was on +board when we struck), received us very well and +gave us permission to take anything we pleased; +but the natives had destroyed almost everything +they had not carried off. Every part of her was ransacked +and torn to pieces; the hull cut and hacked +for the purpose of getting the iron work, and with +pain we saw our unfortunate ship in a most wretched +and miserable condition and with no hope of +leaving the country till some vessel arrived.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_040" style="max-width: 85.875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_040.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + FIJIAN HOUSE + <p>From a photograph made in 1898.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>We succeeded in getting 14 pounds of salt meat, +a few casks of bread and some other little articles +and returned to the town. The King prepared his +largest church⁠<a id="FNanchor_45_45" href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> for us to live in and a small house +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[41]</span> +for our provisions; gave us some cooking utensils +and we made arrangements for our comfort and +prepared to wait patiently until some relief came to +us.</p> + +<p>Having understood that there was another vessel +among the group previous to our misfortune, it +was determined by the captain, with the consent of +the King, to proceed in the boat, with a crew, up to +the Island of Bow, about 90 miles distant, to learn the +fate of the vessel and if he found her safe to request +the captain to come to our relief. Accordingly, on +the 28th March, having fitted sails for the boat, +layed in stores and ammunition, the captain, left +us and proceeded on his voyage.</p> + +<p>The King supplied us with yams and gave us a +number of presents of clothes, and we continued to +live on the most friendly terms with the natives. We +were tolerably acquainted with their language and +from a long acquaintance with them we were soon +able to conform in some degree to the customs and +manners. We found our King was the sovereign +over a large part of the island of Tackanova (the +second largest of the Group) and a number of smaller +islands over which he reigned with an absolute +sway. But he was subject to the King of Bow who +was the great sovereign of the whole group.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[42]</span></p> + +<p>The natives of these islands are remarkable from +the other natives in these seas, not only from their +extreme savage dispositions and eagerness to kill +and eat their enemies, but from the dark colour of +their skins and the manner in which they dress their +hair. They allow it to grow at full length, when it is +made very stiff by applying a mixture made of the +ashes of burnt coral and then dyed in various colours; +the grown people having it always black, +when they pick it up into many curious shapes and +being very thick and bushy their heads present a +very singular and frightful appearance. Their bodies +are nearly naked, with no covering except a piece of +cloth made from the bark of a tree, wrapped around +the waist; though they oil themselves with cocoanut +oil which serves to protect their bodies from the +rays of the sun and renders the skin soft and pliable.</p> + +<p>The females wear a covering made of a sort of +grass which is curiously interwoven and being of +different colours presents a handsome appearance. +Their bodies are oiled and their hair dressed the +same as the men. Both sexes always lie with their +necks resting on a stick so as not to injure the shape +of their hair. The females, although at the complete +disposal of the men, are not treated with great severity. +They assist in tilling the ground, fishing and +cooking; though a great part of their time is spent +in fixing their hair. They display considerable ingenuity +in making earthen-pots (which much resemble +ours) and in making cloth nets.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[43]</span></p> + +<p>The men of whatever rank are learnt the art of +war and always carry their arms with them wherever +they go. They are very ingenious in the construction +of their houses and their war-weapons, but +in particular in their canoes. Their houses are much +like a one-story house in our country (but without +windows) in their shape. They are framed of the +limbs of trees seized together with a kind of sennet⁠<a id="FNanchor_46_46" href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a> +made of the fibres of the cocoanut husk plaited together. +On these are fastened small reeds and on +them are secured the thatch with which the house is +covered.</p> + +<p>Their double canoes are formed of two single ones +secured together by large timbers on which a platform +is built and on which the sail is set and the natives +stand. Single canoes have an outrigger and a +platform built on the single canoe on which the sail +is set. They commence building first by hollowing +out the trunk of a tree, when planks are hew’d and +seized on until it is of sufficient size, secured by timbers +very much resembling those in a ship. The sail +is made of mats, the rope of a kind of bark, and is so +constructed as to be turned either way without the +necessity of turning the canoe round when tacking +at sea. The canoes are all fitted to sail either end +first. They are sometimes very large containing +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[44]</span> +room for 4 or 5 hundred persons⁠<a id="FNanchor_47_47" href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> and nearly as +long as a ship. They sail remarkably fast and the +natives are very expert in the management of them +and as the natives all go arm’d, from their savage +dress they present a very formidable appearance.</p> + +<p>The natives of these islands believe in a Great +Spirit whom they think lives in the sky and who +made all things. In every town there are a number +of priests whom the natives think are endowed with +divine powers by the Great Spirit with whom he +sometimes converses and informs them how to direct +the people. These priests have great influence +with the chiefs in declaring war and managing the +affairs of the nation.</p> + +<p>The principal amusements consisted in a kind of +dance, singing songs relating to the war exploits and +fishing expeditions, performing warlike manœuvres, +and in drinking the ava⁠<a id="FNanchor_48_48" href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a> extracted from the ava-root, +of which they are immoderately fond.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp87" id="i_044" style="max-width: 71.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_044.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + MODEL OF A FIJIAN DOUBLE CANOE + <p>Brought to the United States in 1856 by Capt. Thomas C. Dunn, while + on the bark <i>Dragon</i> of Salem. Now in the Peabody + Museum of Salem.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>A ceremony of this kind was performed almost +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[45]</span> +every morning at the King’s or one of the principal +chief’s house and we always had an invitation to +attend. A large bowl was prepared in which the cava +or ava was put and mixed with water, when it forms +a liquor which has much the same effect on a person +as opium. The company sit round in a circle, +the bowl in the centre, and while it is preparing, +they all sing songs relating to some enterprise that +is intended or perhaps past, the King having first +invoked the Great Spirit to bless the liquor, the people +all answering with a word which is equivalent to +our amen. It was then carried round in cocoanut +shells, the King drinking first, and so on according +to the rank, though we always had the honour to +drink next to the King. They always give a toast +before drinking, frequently wishing the Great Spirit +to bless us with a safe arrival to our country; sometimes +that he might bless them with a great plenty +of yams or fish.</p> + +<p>We continued to live on good terms of friendship +with the natives, which was much increased by our +assisting them in repairing and learning them the +use of the muskets and other weapons of which a +great many fell into their hands. We always met +with a welcome reception when we visited their +houses and frequently received small presents of +clothes, etc., for the work we did for them, so our +situation became quite comfortable, although we +could hardly suppress our feelings, to see our property +and clothes destroyed, nor reflect on the great +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[46]</span> +distance we were from our homes and friends and +the future prospects, without pain and anxiety.</p> + +<p>About the last of April, 1831, the king fitted out +an expedition of thirty large canoes to go to a place +about 50 miles distant to procure certain tribute of +the mountaineers which he obliged them to pay him. +The King and all the principal warriors, with the +women and ourselves, started in the canoes and in +two days arrived at the place where we were to meet +the mountaineers with the tribute. It was on a beautiful +plain where houses were built for the King and +the chiefs with their families.</p> + +<p>After the King and chiefs were seated in the +houses, a party of the women of the mountains +marched out in front of our King, fancifully dress’d +with flowers and strips of bark of various colours, +each having a fish-net of superior workmanship and +each bearing in her hand a sort of fan, with which +they beat time to a sort of solemn tune which they +sung. After performing a number of dances before +the King, they divested themselves of their ornaments +and nets which became the property of our +women, and marched off followed by the shouts and +praises of all our party.</p> + +<p>A party of the men then presented themselves +dressed with a large quantity of curiously-coloured +cloth⁠<a id="FNanchor_49_49" href="#Footnote_49_49" class="fnanchor">[49]</a> and after performing various dances and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[47]</span> +manœuvres and leaving their dresses for the men of +our party, they marched for the mountains having +likewise received the King’s approbation and our +shouts and expressions of admiration.</p> + +<p>The tribute was now examined by the King’s +command. It consisted of 280 hogs, vast quantities +of yams, cava-root, etc., on which the High-Priest +of our nation envoked the Great Spirit for his approbation +of the tribute. The priest, after a ceremony +of twirling a cocoanut round two or three +times, pronounced that it was very Good, and that +it would be proper to have a feast of pork and yams, +drink cava, etc. The King then gave orders for a +certain number of hogs to be killed, the rest to be +divided, and the cava got ready and as we had had +nothing to eat for some days we all joined in obeying +orders. Each one of the party, ourselves not excepted, +received a portion of the provisions and +while the King drank his cava, the people prepared +the feast.</p> + +<p>The King gave the mountaineers a few presents +and a specimen of his eloquence in which he informed +them that as the ship cast away on his +shores had rendered him very powerful, he should +expect a larger tribute the next year, giving them to +understand he should be ready to use forcible means +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[48]</span> +if it became necessary. With this, the chief took his +leave of us and we commenced, according to the advice +of the priest, to eat. At night we repaired to the +canoes with the tribute and on the next morning +started for the town where on the 20th of April we +arrived.</p> + +<p>On our return, the 2nd officer of the ship, with the +carpenter and a number of the crew, left in a canoe +to go to Bow, having understood by the natives that +a vessel was lost in the same gale that had wrecked +our ship and that the Captain and crew resided +there. We found the natives of another town, enemies +to the King, had set fire to the <i>Glide</i> and she +had burnt nearly up.</p> + +<p>The 2nd chief, to whom the ship had been delivered, +when we abandon’d her, was now taken sick +and the priest continued to howl through the night +for his recovery. On our asking the reason of such +proceedings they told us that the priest was angry +because a sufficient sacrifice of pigs had not been +made and that the Great Spirit had caused a sickness +to afflict the greatest warrior. A number of hogs +were immediately killed and buried and numbers of +the friends of the chief’s cut off a finger or toe⁠<a id="FNanchor_50_50" href="#Footnote_50_50" class="fnanchor">[50]</a> to +satisfy the Great Spirit.</p> + +<p>We learn’d that it was the custom to cut off their +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[49]</span> +fingers or toes on the death of their friends or on the +sickness of their chiefs. We saw a number of very +aged people who had become feeble and infirm, call +round their friends and bid them farewell and then +allow themselves to be strangled and buried without +showing any signs of fear for the future or regret +for leaving the past.</p> + +<p>On the 6th of May we received a letter which +was written previous to the gale, from which we +learned that the vessel lost at Bow was the brig <i>Niagara</i>,⁠<a id="FNanchor_51_51" href="#Footnote_51_51" class="fnanchor">[51]</a> +Capt. Nathaniel Brown, and that she was +from Salem.</p> + +<p>Nothing particular occurred until the 22nd of +May, 1831, when a sail was seen standing for the +anchorage at 5 P. M. At sundown we were on board +and she proved to be the schooner <i>Harriet</i>, Capt. +Young, from the Sandwich Islands and last from +Wallis Island. They took us all on board the schooner +and after procuring the cables, anchors, etc., of +our ship we proceeded for Bow.</p> + +<p>On the 9th of June, we arriv’d off Averlon and +found there the bark <i>Peru</i>,⁠<a id="FNanchor_52_52" href="#Footnote_52_52" class="fnanchor">[52]</a> Capt. Egleston, of and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[50]</span> +from Salem. Captain Egleston took Capt. Archer, +Mr. Burnham and the remainder of our crew on +board; likewise the Captains Brown and Vanderford⁠<a id="FNanchor_53_53" href="#Footnote_53_53" class="fnanchor">[53]</a> +of the <i>Niagara</i> with the officers and crew and +we proceeded on our course to Bow, where we arrived +on June 10th, and anchored off the island +where Mr. Manini, supercargo of the schooner, purchased +the cables and anchors of the brig <i>Niagara</i>, +from the King of Bow. Having succeeded in getting +them on board we got underweigh and ran down to +Avalon and anchored near the bark <i>Peru</i>. Capt. +Brown came on board the schooner and Capt. +Young agreed to forward us to the Sandwich Islands.</p> + +<p>On the 26th of June, we lost sight of the Fegee +Islands, steering to the N. E. for Wallis Island⁠<a id="FNanchor_54_54" href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> and +arriving there three days later, we found the brig +<i>Chinchilla</i>,⁠<a id="FNanchor_55_55" href="#Footnote_55_55" class="fnanchor">[55]</a> Capt. Meek. Capt. Young not finding +it for his interest to return to the Sandwich Islands +at present, on the 12th July sailed, intending to return +in the space of 6 or 8 weeks, leaving us to reside +in their houses and wait for his return.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_050" style="max-width: 113.9375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_050.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + SHIP CHINCHILLA OF NEW YORK + <p>“Scrimshawed” on a whale’s tooth. Presented to the East India Marine Society of Salem in 1825 + by Capt. William Osgood. Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>After a long and most tedious stay on this island, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[51]</span> +on the 8th of November, the American whale-ship +<i>Braganza</i>⁠<a id="FNanchor_56_56" href="#Footnote_56_56" class="fnanchor">[56]</a> arrived from a cruise off Japan for the +purpose of procuring vegetables, water, etc. On the +26th, the brig <i>Chinchilla</i> arrived from Port Jackson, +having been obliged to put into that port for provisions. +Finding that Capt. Meek was not to return +to the Sandwich Islands at present and no chance +offering for a passage to a civilized port, I went on +board of the <i>Braganza</i>, it being the intention of +Capt. Wood to cruise for whales about the Equator +for the space of 4 or 5 months and then to proceed +to some port for supplies, where I should probably +find an opportunity to return to the United States.</p> + +<p>On Nov. 29th, we left Wallis Island and proceeded +towards the Equator where we cruised until the +1st of February, 1832, and succeeded in taking 25 +c. of Sperm Oil. Then finding the head of the main-mast +rotted badly and the weather rather unfavourable +for prosecuting the whaling business we bore +away and steered for Otaheite and on the 23rd February +we arrived at <i>Eamco</i>,⁠<a id="FNanchor_57_57" href="#Footnote_57_57" class="fnanchor">[57]</a> an island a short distance +from Otaheite where the Captain intended to +repair his main-mast. We found at Otaheite, the +ship <i>Atlantic</i>, Capt. Fisher, who intended to cruise +for a short time for whales and then proceed for the +United States. I immediately shipped on board and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[52]</span> +on the 28th February, signed his articles intending +to sail the next day. Early the next morning we got +underweigh and stood out to sea steering to the +south east under short sail with the man at the +mast-head looking for whales.</p> + +<p>It was on the morning of 20th of April, just as the +sun was rising, that the man at the mast-head cried +out “There she blows!”⁠<a id="FNanchor_58_58" href="#Footnote_58_58" class="fnanchor">[58]</a></p> + +<p>It was very still on board; the ship steered close +to the wind, a light breeze from east and not a +sound heard except the slight ruffling the ship made +as she forced her way through the water. But nothing +could have acted so forcibly on our feelings as +the cry that whales were in sight. In a moment the +ship was in confusion, the sailors came up from below +and ran to clear their boats and see all in readiness +for the pursuit.</p> + +<p>“Where away?” enquired the Captain, as he was +coming up the companion-steps and without waiting +for an answer ordered the ship to be hove to and +the boats manned.</p> + +<p>The order was promptly executed by the respective +officers and on ascertaining they were sperm +whales, he ordered the officers to lower the boats +and pursue them. The whales were but a short distance +from the ship and we had a good opportunity +to observe their movements. The boats, sufficiently +armed and manned, soon got amongst the whales, +when the man at the mast-head had orders to inform +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[53]</span> +those on deck of the movements in the boats +and to inform those in the boats by signals of the +situation of the whales.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp100" id="i_052" style="max-width: 97.5em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_052.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + A SHOAL OF SPERM WHALE<br> + OFF THE ISLAND OF HAWAII IN 1833 + <p>From an engraving by J. Hill after a painting by T. Birch. The picture shows the famous Roach (Rotch) + whaling fleet,—the <i>Enterprise</i>, <i>Wm. Roach</i>, <i>Pocahontas</i> and <i>Houqua</i>, all from Nantucket.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>In a few moments we perceived by a great splashing, +which one of them made, that the 1st officer +had hove his harpoon into one of them. After running +under water some time and taking the line out +of the boat to a considerable distance, the whale +came up on top of the water. The other whales immediately +joining the wounded one and gave the +other boats an opportunity of striking also, which +they immediately improved and all three of the +boats were each fastened to a whale at the same +time. After the whales became exhausted they +hauled up to them and lanced until they were dead.</p> + +<p>In this manner the boats continued to improve +their time and weapons until 6 of these huge animals +were forced to yield their valuable bodies to +the superior skill of Nantucket whalemen. They +were soon towed alongside the ship and secured by +their tails being fastened to the bows. The crew then +proceeded to take the blubber on board. Large tackles +were secured on the main-mast, the falls taken +to the windlass, and every person stationed in his +particular place. The officers at the ship’s side, on +stages, to cut the blubber as it is hove on board with +the tackles. The harpooners on deck to receive the +blubber and overhaul the tackles. The carpenter +sharpening the spades, the cooperer preparing the +casks, the seamen heaving at the windlass, and the +Captain superintending the whole.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[54]</span></p> + +<p>They commenced by cutting a hole in the blubber +near to the head of the whale, into which a tackle +was hooked which served to steady the whale +while the officers cut off the head which was hoisted +on board. They then proceeded to peel the blubber +off the whale, the officers cutting it with their spades +into strips about 6 or 8 feet in width and from 12 to +18 feet in length, while it is hove in with the tackles. +This causes the whale to turn over and over until +the blubber is all off, when they cut the carcass +adrift and left it a banquet for the sharks and birds +of which there were great numbers around the ship.</p> + +<p>After having secured the blubber of all the whales +sail was again made on the ship and we proceeded +on our way around Cape Horn. In a few days the +blubber was tried out and stow’d in the ship’s hold +and thus ended what the whalers term’d a fare of +sperm oil.</p> + +<p>We had a tolerable passage to the United States +and on the 25th June, arrived at Nantucket, 119 +days from Otaheite, and on the 29th June, 1832, I +reached my home in Danvers after having been absent +37 months and 8 days.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_2_2" href="#FNanchor_2_2" class="label">[2]</a> Tasmania. William Endicott says in his Log of this voyage: +“Van Diemen’s Island appears from the sea to be high +and irregular barren land covered with snow to the summits. +The shore is bound with craggy rocks.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_3_3" href="#FNanchor_3_3" class="label">[3]</a> Situated at the northerly end of North Island, this was +the principal rendezvous of European and American vessels +during the early intercourse with the Pacific. Endicott says +in his Log: “The Bay of Islands is a fine place for procuring +wood, water, potatoes, pigs and vegetables.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_4_4" href="#FNanchor_4_4" class="label">[4]</a> “Indiaman,” “Diana” and “Tower Castle.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_5_5" href="#FNanchor_5_5" class="label">[5]</a> “New Zealander” of New Zealand.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_6_6" href="#FNanchor_6_6" class="label">[6]</a> The primitive Maori method of cooking bodies was to +dig a hole in the ground about two feet deep in which was +placed a quantity of stones. A fire was built over these +and when they were red hot most of them were removed. +Those remaining were covered with alternate layers of +leaves and flesh until there was as much above as below +ground. Two or three quarts of water was then thrown over +the pile, old mats spread over it and the whole covered with +earth to confine the steam. In twenty minutes the flesh was +cooked. Cannibalism was entirely abandoned by 1840 owing +to the influence of the missionaries.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_7_7" href="#FNanchor_7_7" class="label">[7]</a> The Friendly or Tonga Islands are a group lying south-east +of Fiji between 18° and 20° south latitude and 174° and +176° west longitude. They comprise some 150 islands, +mostly very small, of which only a few are inhabited. They +were discovered by Tasman in 1643 and became a British +protectorate in 1900. The natives are of Polynesian stock +and have become Christians through the efforts of the Wesleyan +Mission established here in 1822. Probably the best +early account of the natives of any Pacific islands is William +Mariner’s “An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_8_8" href="#FNanchor_8_8" class="label">[8]</a> The Fiji islands are an important group of the Central +Pacific lying largely between latitude 15°30′ and 19°30′ +South and longitude 177° East and 178° West. They comprise +some 155 islands, of which 100 are inhabited, and numerous +islets and reefs. The group was discovered by Tasman +in 1643 and was ceded to Great Britain by Thakombau on +Oct. 10, 1874. The natives are of Melanesian stock with +an admixture of Polynesian. The mountaineers of Vanua +Levu show the purest strain while the costal tribes of that +and the surrounding islands show a very pronounced strain +of Tongan blood. All are now Christian through the efforts +of the Wesleyan missionaries who went there in 1835 and a +white man or woman is safer with these natives than on the +streets of New York or Chicago.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_9_9" href="#FNanchor_9_9" class="label">[9]</a> The result of the infusion of Tongan blood.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_10_10" href="#FNanchor_10_10" class="label">[10]</a> War was the chief object in life for the Fijian man and so +great was the desire for killing that two men always walked +abreast for fear that if one were behind he would be overcome +by the temptation to club his companion.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_11_11" href="#FNanchor_11_11" class="label">[11]</a> Cannibalism was not practised exclusively on those killed +in war. It was tabu or forbidden to the lower classes and +they were most frequently the victims. Sometimes if a +chief wanted a body for a feast he would send one of his +dependents out to waylay a man of the lower classes. He +would approach his unsuspecting victim from behind and +strike him on the head with a club before he was aware that +anything was to happen. Persons dying a natural death +were never eaten but those shipwrecked were rescued only +that they might be eaten. Neither sex nor age was a deterrent. +One chief was so fond of human flesh that he boasted +that he never passed a person that he did not wonder how +they would taste. The method of cooking bodies was either +by baking, in a manner similar to that practised in New +Zealand (see note, page 16), or by boiling. The body was +rarely baked whole but was dismembered and the trunk cast +aside unless the supply was very short.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_12_12" href="#FNanchor_12_12" class="label">[12]</a> Turtle Island—Vatoa.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_13_13" href="#FNanchor_13_13" class="label">[13]</a> Civil account—civil day. When at sea the log-book day +corresponded with the astronomical day and extended from +noon to noon; but when anchored for any extended period +of time the log-book record was kept in civil time, that is +from midnight to midnight.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_14_14" href="#FNanchor_14_14" class="label">[14]</a> Mbau or Ambau, a native town on a small island at the +southerly end of Ambau Bay on the easterly side of Viti +Levu, the largest island of the Fiji group. This town was the +residence of Tanoa, the most influential chief in the Islands. +It was off this town that the French brig “l’Amiable Josephine” +was cut off by the chiefs of Rewa (or Viwa, a town +on Viti Levu, the second most influential town in Fiji) in July, +1834, and the captain and all the crew but three were killed. +In retaliation for this Dumont D’Urville destroyed the town +of Viwa in 1839. In August, 1834, the chief Vendovi of +Rewa massacred the mate and five men of the crew of the +brig “Charles Doggett” of Salem. One of the crew was +eaten.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_15_15" href="#FNanchor_15_15" class="label">[15]</a> Brig “Quill,” of Salem, 189 tons, built at Hingham in +1818. Owned by John W., Nathaniel L. and Richard S. +Rogers; commanded by Joshua Kinsman.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_16_16" href="#FNanchor_16_16" class="label">[16]</a> Mr. Driver.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_17_17" href="#FNanchor_17_17" class="label">[17]</a> Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_18_18" href="#FNanchor_18_18" class="label">[18]</a> An edible holothurian familiar throughout the East under +the Malay name of <i>trepang</i>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_19_19" href="#FNanchor_19_19" class="label">[19]</a> William S. Carey.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_20_20" href="#FNanchor_20_20" class="label">[20]</a> From the Malay “to carry on the back”,—a man’s burden. +A commercial weight varying in different countries. +In the Philippines, where the beche-de-mer was sold, it was +140 lbs.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_21_21" href="#FNanchor_21_21" class="label">[21]</a> Tanoa, the most powerful chief in the Islands. He was +the father of Thakombau, the most celebrated of the Fijian +chiefs and the greatest stumbling block to the missionaries +until he was forced as a matter of expediency to adopt the +Christian religion in 1854.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_22_22" href="#FNanchor_22_22" class="label">[22]</a> The houses were burned so that they might not be used +by other traders.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_23_23" href="#FNanchor_23_23" class="label">[23]</a> Ship “Clay” of Salem, 299 tons, built at Hanover, Mass., +in 1818. Owned by John W., Nathaniel L. and Richard S. +Rogers; commanded by Charles Millett.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_24_24" href="#FNanchor_24_24" class="label">[24]</a> Anganga Island.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_25_25" href="#FNanchor_25_25" class="label">[25]</a> Including the ship “Sophia” of London.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_26_26" href="#FNanchor_26_26" class="label">[26]</a> Ship “Zeneas Coffin” of Nantucket, 338 tons, owned by +C. G. and H. Coffin; commanded by George Joy.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_27_27" href="#FNanchor_27_27" class="label">[27]</a> Ship “Ann Alexander” of New Bedford, 211 tons, owned +by George Howland; commanded by Josiah Howland.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_28_28" href="#FNanchor_28_28" class="label">[28]</a> Ship “Hector” of New Bedford, 380 tons, owned by +Charles W. Morgan; commanded by John G. Morse.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_29_29" href="#FNanchor_29_29" class="label">[29]</a> Maui, the second largest island of the Hawaiian group.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_30_30" href="#FNanchor_30_30" class="label">[30]</a> Ship “Atlantic” of Nantucket, 321 tons. Commanded +by Elihu Fisher.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_31_31" href="#FNanchor_31_31" class="label">[31]</a> This church at Lahaina, Maui, was said at the time to +be “the most noble structure in all Polynesia.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_32_32" href="#FNanchor_32_32" class="label">[32]</a> Penrhyn or Tongareva was discovered by Seaver in the +ship “Lady Penrhyn” in 1788. When visited by the “Popoise” +of the Wilkes’ Expedition in 1841 the natives were +described as the wildest and most savage-looking beings that +had been met with.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_33_33" href="#FNanchor_33_33" class="label">[33]</a> Ovalau, a small island about 10 miles east of Viti Levu. +On this island is situated the town of Levuka whose harbor +is one of the best in the islands. It was the principal residence +of white men in the group and was the seat of the +British colonial government until 1882, when it was removed +to Suva on Viti Levu.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_34_34" href="#FNanchor_34_34" class="label">[34]</a> The anchors usually carried were: sheet anchor, the largest +and strongest which is only used in time of direst necessity; +the best bower anchor and the small bower anchor, +about the same size and take their name from their position +at the bow of the ship; the stream anchor, smaller than the +bowers; and the kedge anchor, smallest of all.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_35_35" href="#FNanchor_35_35" class="label">[35]</a> Somosomo, a town of considerable importance, situated +on the island of Taviuni or Vuna off the south-eastern point +of Vanua Levu the second largest island in the Fiji group.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_36_36" href="#FNanchor_36_36" class="label">[36]</a> Brig “Faun” of Salem, 168 tons, built at Quincy in 1816. +Owned by Robert Brookhouse of Salem, George Abbot of +Beverly and Hall & Williams of Boston; commanded by +James Briant. Wrecked in August 1830 on the Cakaudrove +coast of Vanua Levu in the bay now called Faun Harbor.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_37_37" href="#FNanchor_37_37" class="label">[37]</a> Charles Ambrose Knight, 1st mate of the ship “Friendship” +of Salem, a brother of Edmund, was massacred in +February 1831, by the natives at Quallah Battoo, Sumatra.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_38_38" href="#FNanchor_38_38" class="label">[38]</a> Fish—a piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, +used to strengthen a mast or yard.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_39_39" href="#FNanchor_39_39" class="label">[39]</a> Mutt-Water or Mudwater, a town on the north side of +Vanua Levu. The native name was Bonne Rarah.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_40_40" href="#FNanchor_40_40" class="label">[40]</a> Tackanova—Vanua Levu.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_41_41" href="#FNanchor_41_41" class="label">[41]</a> The “bitter-end” is that part of the cable which is abaft +the bitts when the ship rides at anchor.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_42_42" href="#FNanchor_42_42" class="label">[42]</a> Chief Santa Beeta of Bonne Rarah.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_43_43" href="#FNanchor_43_43" class="label">[43]</a> Bonne Rarah.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_44_44" href="#FNanchor_44_44" class="label">[44]</a> Mah—Mathee.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_45_45" href="#FNanchor_45_45" class="label">[45]</a> The <i>bure</i> or temple was the council chamber and town +hall of the village. Strangers were entertained there and the +head persons of the village often slept in it. As the best +constructed building in the village it was elaborately decorated, +the timbers and rafters being wrapped with sennit in +various designs of red and black. Votive offerings such as +clubs, huge rolls of sennit, whale’s teeth, strips of masi, a +model of a temple made of sennit or parts of a victim slain +in war, decorated the interior.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_46_46" href="#FNanchor_46_46" class="label">[46]</a> Sennit—a cord made of the fibre of the cocoanut husk, +dried, combed and braided. The Fijians having no nails +use this for all sorts of fastenings, lashings and wrappings in +varied design. It is made in all sizes from a single strand to +a cable and is of very considerable strength.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_47_47" href="#FNanchor_47_47" class="label">[47]</a> This statement seems to be somewhat exaggerated. One +canoe has been recorded as one hundred feet in length. +Wilkes says that the average large canoe was seventy feet in +length and would conveniently carry fifty men.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_48_48" href="#FNanchor_48_48" class="label">[48]</a> <i>Yaquona</i> of the Fijians, <i>kava</i> of the Tongans and <i>awa</i> of +the Hawaiians, is an infusion of the root of the pepper plant +(<i>Piper methysticum</i>). The root is first chewed or grated, +after which the macerated mass is placed in a bowl and +covered with water. The infusion is then strained through +a fibre mesh and is ready to drink. It was used on occasions +of ceremony or entertainment and its preparation was accompanied +by a more or less elaborate ritual. It is used by +the races in the Pacific who do not chew the betel nut. Its +effects are intoxicating and narcotic.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_49_49" href="#FNanchor_49_49" class="label">[49]</a> Tapa cloth, <i>masi</i> of the Fijians, <i>siapo</i> of the Samoans, +<i>kapa</i> of the Hawaiians, was the substitute for cloth and paper. +It was made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry +(<i>Broussonetia papyrifera</i>). The plants were carefully cultivated +and when about one inch in diameter were cut down +and soaked in water. The bark was removed and beaten. +Different pieces were joined together and beaten into one +piece so that sheets of almost any size could be made. The +finished masi was then decorated by printing or stencilling +with dyes of red-brown and black.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_50_50" href="#FNanchor_50_50" class="label">[50]</a> One of the chief forms of mourning for the dead, in addition +to wailing, was to lop off the little finger of one of the +hands. Most of the older natives lost both little fingers. +This was confined to the relatives of the deceased unless the +latter was one of the highest chiefs when it was confined to +the tribe.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_51_51" href="#FNanchor_51_51" class="label">[51]</a> Brig “Niagara” of Salem, 246 tons, built at Mount Desert +in 1816. Owned by Putnam I. Farnham, Jed Fry and +Peter S. Webster; commanded by Nathaniel Brown. +Wrecked in Ambau Bay the same day as the “Glide.”</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_52_52" href="#FNanchor_52_52" class="label">[52]</a> Bark “Peru”, 210 tons, built at Salem in 1823. Owned +by Stephen C. Phillips; commanded by John H. Eagleston. +Sold to Spanish owners at Manila in 1832. Capt. Eagleston +commanded four different vessels in the Fiji trade, was familiar +with the language and was on friendly terms with +several of the chiefs. He rendered great assistance and furnished +valuable information to Lieut. Wilkes while the U. S. +Exploring Expedition was at the Fijis.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_53_53" href="#FNanchor_53_53" class="label">[53]</a> Capt. Benjamin Vanderford of Salem made many voyages +to the Fiji Islands and was familiar with the manners, +customs and language. He was afterwards master’s mate +and pilot on the U.S.S. “Vincennes” during the Wilkes’ Exploring +Expedition and died, March 23, 1842, on the passage +home.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_54_54" href="#FNanchor_54_54" class="label">[54]</a> Uvea, northeast of Fiji. Discovered by Maurelle in 1781 +and again by Wallis in 1797.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_55_55" href="#FNanchor_55_55" class="label">[55]</a> Brig “Chinchilla” of New York; commanded by Thomas +Meek of Marblehead.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_56_56" href="#FNanchor_56_56" class="label">[56]</a> Ship “Braganza” of New Bedford, 217 tons. Owned by +Phillips, Russell & Co.; commanded by Daniel Wood. Altered +to a bark in 1859 and condemned at Honolulu in 1862.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_57_57" href="#FNanchor_57_57" class="label">[57]</a> Eimeo, one of the Society Islands about 10 miles north +west of Tahiti.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_58_58" href="#FNanchor_58_58" class="label">[58]</a> This account of whaling may have been abstracted by +Mr. Endicott from some now unidentified source.</p></div></div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[55]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_CANNIBAL_FEAST_AT_THE_FEJEE"> + A CANNIBAL FEAST AT THE FEJEE + ISLANDS + </h2> +</div> + +<p class='center mth'><span class="smcap">By an Eye Witness</span></p> + +<p class='center mth'>(<i>Reprinted from “The Danvers Courier,” Aug. 16, +1845</i>)</p> + +<p class='mth'><span class="smcap">Mr. Editor.</span> Finding myself in possession of a +little spare time, I feel disposed to improve it in +overhauling a range or two of memory, and agreeably +to promise to commit such of it to paper as +may seem of interest, touching on incidents which +occurred at the Fejee Islands while on board the +Old Ship <i>Glide</i>.</p> + +<p>It was on a pleasant afternoon in the month of +March, 1831, our ship at anchor off the town of +Bona-ra-ra, the crew on board employed in making +senett, spun-yarn, yard mats, and other ship gear +to fill up the chinks of time, and particularly the +ship’s lockers with such articles as are sure to come +in play on shipboard, when you have not time to +make them.</p> + +<p>We were not very busy, neither were we idle; but +it was just one of those sort of days at the Fejees +when all hands had been hard at work all the forenoon, +boating oil to the ship, beche-le-mer, weighing, +and stowing it away in the hold, and having +once more cleared up decks, felt released from the +regular day’s duty, and indulged ourselves in a sail +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[56]</span> +privilege of telling tales, singing songs and reflecting +upon “better days gone by.”</p> + +<p>Our reveries and yarns were unbroken by any +orders from aft except, to strike the bell every half +hour, which if it had no other purpose reminded us +that thirty minutes more had drifted astern upon +the sea of time.</p> + +<p>Five bells had been ordered from the quarter +deck. I arose to execute the command, when my attention +was drawn to the shore by seeing a large collection +of savages on the beach, walking towards the +town. Having struck the bell, I proceeded to the side +of the ship where a canoe with five or six women had +just arrived, to sell us fruit. I enquired of them what +was the matter on shore. They immediately told me +that the men had been to a fight with the Andregette +tribe (who lived about thirty miles in the +mountains), were victorious and had killed and +taken three of their enemies, and were now going to +have a grand Soleb, or feast.</p> + +<p>I had heard David Whippy, a man who had long +been a resident upon these Islands, tell many a long +tale of the manners and customs of the natives, and +especially of their cannibalism, and I had a strong +desire to see the manner in which they prepared and +ate human flesh.</p> + +<p>While I was considering whether I would ask the +liberty I wished, or not, Capt. Archer came up and +stood in the companion way. I went aft, made +known to him my request, when he replied, “I have +no objection but take care of yourself.”</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp61" id="i_056" style="max-width: 71.0625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_056.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + FIJIAN WOMEN + <p>Wearing “maiden locks” indicating that they are unmarried.</p> + </figcaption> +</figure> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[57]</span></p> + +<p>This admonition was gratefully received, yet I +felt by no means alarmed, having spent a great portion +of my time on shore among the natives, with +whom I was on terms of perfect friendship and good +will, a circumstance well known to the Capt. or I +should probably have received at once from him a +denial of my wish to be absent from the ship on such +an occasion.</p> + +<p>I went down to my chest and brought up a few +beads, which I gave to the women in the canoe, telling +them I wished to be paddled ashore. They immediately +threw their fruits consisting of a few cocoanuts +and plantains, through one of the ship’s +ports upon deck and considering the beads a compensation +for both fruit and passage I was soon on +my way to the shore.</p> + +<p>I landed upon the beach just ahead of the savages +who were coming single file to the village, entering +it however by a very circuitous route and in +a manner never done except on such occasions.</p> + +<p>There were about sixty warriors, though a great +many others were in attendance who had joined +them while nearing the village.</p> + +<p>The bodies of the three dead savages were carried +in front, lashed on long poles in a singular manner. +They were bound with wythes by bringing the upper +and lower parts of the legs together and binding +them to the body, and the arms in a similar manner +by bringing the elbows to rest on the knees, and +their hands tied upon each side of the neck. Their +backs were confined to poles which were about +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[58]</span> +twelve feet long. One was lashed on each pole, with +six men, three at each end, to carry it.</p> + +<p>Those who carried the bodies walked with a limping +gait, bending their left knees almost to the +ground, but doing it in exact time with the war song +they were singing.</p> + +<p>They proceeded immediately in front of the Boo-re +(a large hut to be used only on public occasions) +and threw the dead bodies from their shoulders with +the most savage triumph. Two of them were untied +from the poles while the third and smallest one, was +by the order of the King, sent to some particular +friends of his belonging to a neighboring tribe, from +whom he had received similar tokens of friendship.</p> + +<p>This was a great day at Bona-ra-ra. A day of +great rejoicing. This tribe had not only been successful +in their attack upon their enemy, but had +succeeded in securing the slain. Little credit is given +to the warrior who kills his enemies if he does not +obtain their bodies; much more is thought of the +savage who kills one man and carries him home, +than of the individual who may kill a hundred and +let their dead bodies fall into the hand of the enemy. +Their chief glory consists not so much in killing, as +in eating their enemies.</p> + +<p>I noticed that a very particular interest was taken +in one of the dead savages, and there were none +present who talked louder or expressed more vehement +gestures, or savage feeling, than an old woman. +This matter I could not understand. I asked a +young savage who stood near me, what was their +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[59]</span> +particular interest in that man more than the other? +He told me that some time previous this tribe had +made war with the Andre-getta people, and the son +of this old woman was a young chief in the fight +and was slain; and it was believed that this individual +had killed him. Whether it was so or not, the +old woman believed it and the priest believed it, and +that was enough for their purpose, for they only +wished to wreak their revenge on some savage, +though it were a dead one. I had seated myself on +the large roots of a cocoanut tree in front of the +whole ceremony. After it was satisfactorily settled +that this was the savage who had killed the young +chief, they proceeded systematically to fill up the +measure of their revenge.</p> + +<p>This old female savage went to her hut and +brought all the property of her late son; such as +sleeping mats, tappa, i-fow carlic, angona-dish, and +some other little furniture which make up the necessaries +of a chief’s dwelling. The angona bowl was +placed near the head of the dead savage; a bamboo +of water was brought and laid by his side, when several +young men after well rinsing their mouths, +were employed in chewing and preparing a bowl of +angona. After the drink was made ready this old +savage after a short speech from the priest, who had +continued to make low gutteral sounds and shake +himself through the whole ceremony, took her small +dish full of the liquor and presenting it to the lips of +the dead savage bade him drink. No sooner was this +done than a general yell ran through the tribe—“Amba +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[60]</span> +cula boy thu-ie,” he is a stinking dead man. +She then dashed the liquor in his face and broke the +dish in pieces upon it. She then took up her bamboo +of water, and removing the tuft of grass from the end +placed it also to the mouth of the dead man and +again bade him drink. A repetition of the same ceremony +was gone through with, when she poured all +the water upon his face and then broke the bamboo +in pieces upon his head, and told the men to take it +to cut him up with. Bamboo, split to a sharp edge +was called by them isulic (a term applied to knife), +which instrument alone they allowed themselves to +use in cutting to pieces a dead body.</p> + +<p>The old woman had now gone her way knowing +that her orders would be executed, and well aware +of the strict prohibition against her, or any of her +sex either to assist in preparing, or eating human +flesh.</p> + +<p>The head of the savage on whom this ceremony +commenced was first cut off and laid aside, then the +furniture that was brought by the old woman was +broken up and placed around it; and fire set to it +so that the whole was entirely consumed about the +head, and rendered thereby in a fit state for cleansing; +the hair being burnt off and the flesh so singed +that it was scraped perfectly white.</p> + +<p>As soon as this affair was ended a dance commenced +as is customary on all such occasions. All +the warriors who were engaged in the fight, and +some aged men who staid at home, had now prepared +themselves for this savage expression of joy. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[61]</span> +The Fejeeians wear but little clothing on ordinary +occasions and on this they were in a state of complete +nudity. They were painted in a most frightful +manner, as great a diversity of painting, or marking +was observed by them as could be devised, each one +attempting to outdo the other in the most loathsome +obscenity and savage appearance. They use +but three kinds of paint upon their bodies which are +black, red, and yellow. The black is made from a +small nut which grows upon the ground, it is burnt +to a coal and pounded up between flat stones, and +prepared by mixing it with cocoanut oil. The red +and yellow paint used by them is a mineral similar +to our ochre, if not precisely the same in substance. +The yellow is held by them in high estimation. It is +mixed with cocoanut oil, scented with sandalwood +and fragrant herbs, and is the first dressing received +by the new born infant. It is called by them +re-ringer.</p> + +<p>There were about one hundred dancers who came +upon the ground at one and the same time with terrific +yells. Their dance was made up of the most violent +and distended motion of the limbs, often prostrating +themselves on the ground upon their backs, +and springing again instantly to their places, without +however for a moment ceasing to chant their +war song in a very low but distinct manner. Their +only instrumental music on this occasion was that +of two savages beating upon the end of a hollow log +four or six feet in length, which is always heard on +such occasions, and also as an alarm for war.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[62]</span></p> + +<p>Within the ring of dancers had the old woman’s +command been promptly executed.</p> + +<p>They commenced in their usual systematic way +of cutting up a dead body. The heads of both savages +being now taken off, they next cut off the right +hand and the left foot, right elbow and left knee, +and so in like manner until all the limbs separated +from the body.</p> + +<p>An oblong piece was then taken from the body +commencing at the bottom of the chest and passing +downwards about eight inches, and three or four +inches wide at its broadest part. This was carefully +laid aside for the King, it being strictly prohibited +for anyone else to eat of it.</p> + +<p>The entrails and vitals were then taken out and +cleansed for cooking. But I shall not here particularize. +The scene is too revolting. The flesh was then +cut through the ribs to the spine of the back which +was broken, thus the body was separated into two +pieces. This was truly a sickening sight. I saw after +they had cut through the ribs of the stoutest man, a +savage jump upon the back, one end of which rested +upon the ground, and the other was held in the +hands and rested upon the knees of another savage, +three times before he succeeded in breaking it.</p> + +<p>This ended the dissection of the bodies.</p> + +<p>While this was going on, the lobu or oven was +prepared which was made as follows. An excavation +is made in the earth of a concave form about six +feet in diameter and a foot and a half deep in the +centre, and smoothly lined with small stones. A +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[63]</span> +large fire is then made in it, with small stones placed +among the burning fuel for the purpose of heating +them, and as the bodies are cut to pieces they are +thrown upon the fire, which after being thoroughly +singed are scraped while hot by savages, who sit +around the fire for this purpose. The skin by this +process is made perfectly white, this being the manner +in which they dress their hogs, and other animal +food.</p> + +<p>To show their excessive greediness for human +flesh, and their savage thirst for blood, I need only +to relate a particular circumstance which took place +at the time. The head of the savage which was last +taken off, was thrown towards the fire, and being +thrown some distance it rolled a few feet from the +men who were employed around it; when it was +stolen by one of the savages who carried it behind +the tree where I was sitting. He took the head in his +lap and after combing away the hair from the top of +it with his fingers picked out the pieces of the scull +which was broken by the war club and commenced +eating the brains. This was too much for me. I +moved my position, the thief was discovered and +was as soon compelled to give up his booty, it being +considered by the others he had got by far too great +a share.</p> + +<p>The process of cleansing and preparing this flesh, +occupied about two hours. There was no part of +these bodies which I did not see cleansed and put in +the oven.</p> + +<p>The stones which had been placed upon the fire, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[64]</span> +were now removed, the oven cleaned out, the flesh +carefully and very neatly wrapped in fresh plantain +leaves, and placed in it. The hot stones were also +wrapped in leaves and placed among the flesh, and +after it was all deposited in the oven, it was covered +up two or three inches with the same kind of leaves, +and the whole covered up with earth of sufficient +depth to retain the heat.</p> + +<p>It was now about sunset; the oven was completely +covered, and a new dance commenced around it, +which continued for some time. I ascertained by the +natives, that it would be past midnight before they +would open their oven, and being desirous of seeing +the end of this affair, and recollecting that I had no +anchor watch to stand that night, I resolved to go to +the beche-le-mer house which was on the opposite +side of the village, and spend part of the night, caring +only to get on board the ship the next morning +in season to turn to with all hands, in washing the +decks. I therefore proceeded on my way across the +village, when I met with Sina-beatee, a chief with +whom I was well acquainted, who asked me to go +with him to his hut, and take something to eat. I +followed my host to his cabin, and made a good supper, +after which I left him and renewed my way +across the village to the ship’s house.</p> + +<p>I found the men curing the fish as usual. Everything +looked perfectly familiar to me. Some were +scolding the natives for their laziness and not bringing +the fish to the pots, as they wanted them; others +were dodging the smoke and steam from the pots, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[65]</span> +with an occasional oath, and trying to get a snuff of +pure air; while the men to the windward pots, +though free from the other annoyances, were compelled +to take a double share of mosquitoes, which +was a fair offset to the grievances of the others. +These, with a few of Job’s comforts; dreadful sores +occasioned by frequently burning a poison wood +called by the natives—see-nu, make up some of the +rare pleasures of the shore’s crew on a beche-le-mer +voyage.</p> + +<p>As the men on shore are obliged to stand watch +and watch, I turned in to the berth of one of my +shipmates who had the first watch at the pots, and +slept as sound and as well, perhaps, as anyone else +would have done in a savage land with a host of +savage mosquitoes singing about his ears.</p> + +<p>I turned out about midnight, sauntered about the +beche-le-mer house until nearly daylight, and then +made my way back again to the Boo-re.</p> + +<p>I soon found on nearing the house, by seeing the +torches about the oven, and also by the scent of +their cooked flesh, that their feast had begun; and +on my arrival I found they were nearly done. It was +soon reported to the chiefs that a white man was at +the door, and after some enquiry I was invited to +the feast. Being well acquainted with the King, as +well as Sina-beatee with whom I had supped the +evening previous, I felt somewhat at home and took +a seat beside the last named personage. It was not +yet daylight and there was no light in the house except +a small fire kept burning at each of the three +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[66]</span> +doors to keep out the mosquitoes, which served for +little or no other purpose. I had been seated but a +moment or two when I heard the Chief Sina-beatee +(who was kept on board the ship as a hostage for +the men on shore who were getting a cargo for the +ship, but who had been released by the Captain on +this occasion the evening previous), say to the King +“Had we not better give the white man something +to eat?” “Yes,” said the King, “you can send and +get him some yam, for he will not eat our meat.” +Sina-beatee replied, “I know he will not, but I consider +the meat by far the best and as a token of good +will, having received presents from him, I wish to +present him some.” The King after a mute silence +of a moment, told one of his ki-sees or slaves to give +the white chief (allowing me that title in consideration +of the respect shown me by Sina-beatee) the +best piece which was left, it being nearly all eaten +up. He went to the centre of the Boo-re where lay +some unbroken bunches of meat, the savages being +placed generally on the sides of the room, and selected +a piece, telling the King what it was before +removing it. The King said it was “slave’s meat,” +which he regretted, saying to Sina-beatee, he wished +it was a better piece and ordered the slave to give it +me. It was accordingly brought carefully wrapped +in a plantain leaf as it had been placed in the oven. +I unwrapped it and found it to be a part of a foot +taken off at the ankle and at the joints of the toes. +I made an excuse for not eating it, by saying that it +had been kept too long after it was killed, before it +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[67]</span> +was cooked, it being about thirty-six hours. The King +replied, it was not half so long as you white men +keep your bullum-a-cow! meaning salt beef, a name +derived from bull and cow, by American seamen. +Salted meat was considered by them the most unhealthy +and loathsome food that could be eaten, +and was the means of creating a strong prejudice +against the whites for their eating it. I had no desire +to discuss the question of diet with this old savage +and cannibal, knowing that I could not convince +him of the base impropriety of eating human +flesh, and well aware that he could not prevail upon +me to exchange the cured flesh of a well stalled ox +for the jackall food of his murdered victims.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter" id="i_066a" > + <img class="illowp15" src="images/i_066a.jpg" alt="" style="max-width: 14.25em;"> + <figcaption> + TOOTH OF A FIJIAN CANNIBAL + </figcaption> +</figure> +<blockquote> +Presented to The Essex Institute in 1851 by Capt. John H. Eagleston + who stated that it was “A tooth from Na Massa Ngaloa, the greatest + cannibal that ever lived, head chief of Rewa, Fiji Islands. Twenty + years since conquered most of the islands in the archipelago; since died + aged about sixty years. Eleven years ago became Christian—baptised + Ratu Mill.” Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem. +</blockquote> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp51" id="i_066b" style="max-width: 32.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_066b.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + MODEL OF A BURE OR FIJIAN TEMPLE + </figcaption> +</figure> +<blockquote> + Such models were presented to the temples as offerings. Given to the + East India Marine Society of Salem, by Capt. Joseph Winn, Jr., in 1835. + Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem. +</blockquote> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp46" id="i_068" style="max-width: 71.25em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/i_068.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + OBJECTS FROM FIJI ISLANDS + </figcaption> +</figure> + <blockquote> + <ol> + <li>Comb with top of human bone; collected by John + Crandall in 1860.</li> + <li>Bracelet of shark’s teeth; collected by Capt. Joshua + Kinsman in 1831.</li> + <li>Bracelet of roots made by the mountaineers; collected + by Capt. Joshua Kinsman in 1831.</li> + <li>Bracelet of human teeth; collected by James B. Williams, + U. S. Consul at Fiji, in 1845.</li> + <li>Mat needle made of human bone; collected by Capt. + Joshua Kinsman in 1831.</li> + </ol> + <p class='center'>Now in the Peabody Museum of Salem.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p class='mt1'>As the light of day shown into the hut, it revealed +a sight seldom witnessed by civilized man. Around +the hut sat sixty or seventy cannibals, more frightful +than ever if possible; their paint being rubbed +together in many instances, gave their bodies such +an appearance as for a moment to lead one to doubt +that they were human beings. Before one savage, +would lay a human head, save that part which could +be released from it, the lower jaw; which would be +in possession of another. The bones of these bodies +were well distributed among them, showing conclusively +that none had failed to get their share. I +had understood by them that the oven was opened +about midnight, and that they had now done their +feast; what was left was to be given to the boys; the +women, as I have before stated, were not allowed to +taste of it though they frequently got it by stealth, +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span> +as some of them did on this occasion after the bones +and broken meat was given to the boys. My attention +was directed to an old Tonga ta boo savage, +whom I had seen, however, frequently before, who +was a Ma-ti or mechanic among them, whose particular +business it was to manufacture sail needles +from the shin bones of their cannibal victims. The +sails to their canoes, being made in a triangular +form, of thick mats sewed together with sennet, renders +it necessary to have long and crooked needles, +and perhaps there is nothing among them from +which this article could be so well manufactured +as from the shin bone of a man. This old savage sat +near the King, with four shin bones between his +own, and feeling himself entitled by his peculiar occupation +to those parts of the victim, never failed to +have his share of the spoils. I had heard through my +whole stay at this place that he was the most notorious +cannibal in the tribe; and his whole appearance +conformed well with his acknowledged character. +He was of a large and muscular frame, raw boned, +his skin brawny and dry, and with no nose upon his +face; he having lost this prominent feature some +years previous, for the indulgence of a crime among +the wives of a neighboring chief. His nose was bitten +off. I knew of but one crime among these islanders, +which a man or woman could commit, the penalty +of which was the loss of this member.</p> + +<p>Many of the savages now begun to leave the Boo-re, +and among the rest was Sina-beatee who stated +to me that he should go on board the ship in the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[70]</span> +boats which came on shore for the beche-le-mer. I +rose to go, but wishing to carry with me some relic +as a remembrance of the scene I had witnessed, I +engaged the old Tonga savage to make a pair of +sail needles, one from the limb of each of the devoured +victims, promising him a good compensation +for them. He gave them to me in two or three days +after, neatly wrought, which I placed among my curiosities, +which within one month from that time +were all together with the ill-fated ship.</p> + +<p>About sunrise, I went to the beche-le-mer house, +and finding myself too late to get on board to assist +in washing decks, I set myself to work collecting the +beche-le-mer on the batters, in readiness to be put +into bags when the boats came off, thereby offsetting +my duty on board by doing what I knew would be +required of my boatmates on their arrival on shore.</p> + +<p>The boats arrived at their usual time, and after +taking on board as much of the beche-le-mer as was +ready for storage on board the ship, we went on +board accompanied by Sina-beatee and his wife +Tu-cun-na, who spent much of her time with the +chief on board of the ship.</p> + +<p>I am about to the end of my yarn, yet I might +lengthen it by knotting on other strands, but my +timepiece reminds me that it is past midnight; so I +shall take the liberty to belay this and turn in.</p> + +<p class="right pr8">Yours, etc.,</p> +<p class='right pr1'><span class="smcap">William Endicott</span></p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[71]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Vocab_Fiji"> + A FEW WORDS OF THE LANGUAGE<br> + OF THE FEGEE ISLANDS + </h2> +</div> + +<p class='mth'>The natives always add the word <i>Sah</i>, to all +words excepting substantives.</p> + +<table class='vocab mt1'> +<tr><th><i>Fegee</i></th><th><i>English</i></th></tr> +<tr><td>Andree´</td><td>Beche-le-mer</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-tap´-pah</td><td>What</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ing-go´</td><td>That or those</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lah´-go</td><td>Go away</td></tr> +<tr><td> Oh-mi´</td><td>Come here</td></tr> +<tr><td> Mi</td><td>Here</td></tr> +<tr><td> Si-an´-drah</td><td>How do you do</td></tr> +<tr><td> Fah-ing-go´</td><td>This fashion, or this way</td></tr> +<tr><td> Papa lang´-ee</td><td>General name for civilized people</td></tr> +<tr><td> Fah-a-Be´tee</td><td>Like a Fegee man</td></tr> +<tr><td> Fah-a-papa-lang´-ee</td><td>Like a civilized man</td></tr> +<tr><td> La´bo</td><td>Large</td></tr> +<tr><td> Li-Li</td><td>Small</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ba-na´-kak</td><td>Good</td></tr> +<tr><td> Dah</td><td>Bad</td></tr> +<tr><td> Un-dee´-nah</td><td>True</td></tr> +<tr><td> Las´-so</td><td>False</td></tr> +<tr><td> Bon-ee´-tah</td><td>Handsome</td></tr> +<tr><td> Seeng-ah´</td><td>No</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ee´-o</td><td>Yes</td></tr> +<tr><td> Neen´-ee</td><td>Angry</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tom´-a-Tah</td><td>Man</td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[72]</span> La´-vah</td><td>Women</td></tr> +<tr><td> E-val´-ee</td><td>Musket or a bow</td></tr> +<tr><td> Anti-ky´</td><td>House</td></tr> +<tr><td> Nung-a-Sow´</td><td>Bullets or arrows</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ma-Loon´</td><td>Club</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-noo´-koo</td><td>Sand or powder</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-bat´-to</td><td>Stones</td></tr> +<tr><td> Am-boo´-kah</td><td>Fire</td></tr> +<tr><td> Nah-cow´</td><td>Wood</td></tr> +<tr><td> Fa-nu´-ah</td><td>Land—the shore</td></tr> +<tr><td> Dry-and-dry´</td><td>Lengthy</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lakah-Lakah´</td><td>Short</td></tr> +<tr><td> Boo´-lah</td><td>Strong or brave</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ra´-Rah</td><td>Frightened</td></tr> +<tr><td> An-Drew´</td><td>Blood</td></tr> +<tr><td> Am-Boo´ter</td><td>Cooked</td></tr> +<tr><td> An-Dro´kah</td><td>Raw</td></tr> +<tr><td> Wank´-ah</td><td>Ship, canoe</td></tr> +<tr><td> Bel´lo-Bel´lo</td><td>Boat</td></tr> +<tr><td> Pie´-o</td><td>Oar, paddle</td></tr> +<tr><td> Thoo´-lar</td><td>Pole</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ee-lah´-ther</td><td>Sail</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ra´-Vah</td><td>Hoist</td></tr> +<tr><td> Wye´-Dewee</td><td>Salt water</td></tr> +<tr><td> Wye-Ee-No</td><td>Water to drink</td></tr> +<tr><td> Cun´-a-Cun´</td><td>Eat</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ee-No</td><td>Drink</td></tr> +<tr><td> Mun´dry</td><td>Bread</td></tr> +<tr><td> Poark´-ah</td><td>Hogs</td></tr> +<tr><td> Oo´-fee</td><td>Yams</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-boon´-tee</td><td>Plantains</td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[73]</span> A-oo´-to</td><td>Bread, fruit</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ee´-kah</td><td>Fish</td></tr> +<tr><td> Mah-Seem´-ah</td><td>Salt</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ah-nee´-ew</td><td>Cocoanuts</td></tr> +<tr><td> Too-rong´-ah</td><td>Chief</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-See</td><td>Common man</td></tr> +<tr><td> Mar-Ty´</td><td>Carpenter</td></tr> +<tr><td> Toon-en-Dye´</td><td>Helmsman</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-Fa-nu´-ah</td><td>Landsman</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-Wye´</td><td>Sailor</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tah´-nee</td><td>Stranger</td></tr> +<tr><td> Bul´lee-Bul´lee</td><td>Trade, barter</td></tr> +<tr><td> Par´-lee-Co</td><td>Chizzel</td></tr> +<tr><td> Mo´ro-Mo´ro</td><td>Beads</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tambour´</td><td>Whale’s tooth</td></tr> +<tr><td> I-sail-ee</td><td>Knife, sword</td></tr> +<tr><td> So´-Ber</td><td>Tub or hogshead</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ca´-To</td><td>Box</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-rom´-bo</td><td>Bag</td></tr> +<tr><td> Gu´tee-Gu´tee</td><td>Basket</td></tr> +<tr><td> Du´-nah</td><td>One—1</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-roo´-ah</td><td>Two—2</td></tr> +<tr><td> To´lo</td><td>Three—3</td></tr> +<tr><td> Vah</td><td>Four—4</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lee´-mah</td><td>Five—5</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ono</td><td>Six—6</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ve´-to</td><td>Seven—7</td></tr> +<tr><td> Wah´-loo</td><td>Eight—8</td></tr> +<tr><td> Thee´-wah</td><td>Nine—9</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tee´-nee</td><td>Ten—10</td></tr> +<tr><td> Car´-loo</td><td>Great Spirit</td></tr> +<tr><td><span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[74]</span> Em-Bet´ta</td><td>Priest</td></tr> +<tr><td> See´ng-ah</td><td>Sun</td></tr> +<tr><td> Boo´-lah</td><td>Moon</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tung´-ee</td><td>Wind</td></tr> +<tr><td> Oo´-ther</td><td>Rain</td></tr> +<tr><td> Dumb´-an-Dumb´</td><td>Red colour</td></tr> +<tr><td> Cur-ra-la-row´er</td><td>Green colour</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lo´-ah-Lo´-ah</td><td>Black or blue colour</td></tr> +<tr><td> I-bo´-Lah</td><td>White or yellow colour</td></tr> +<tr><td> Sam-ber´-rah</td><td>By and by</td></tr> +<tr><td> Sah-Vet´her</td><td>How many</td></tr> +<tr><td> Sah-Ee´-Bee</td><td>Where is it</td></tr> +<tr><td> Gwe´go</td><td>Yourself</td></tr> +<tr><td> Gwo´</td><td>Myself</td></tr> +<tr><td> Cot´he-Thung´-ee</td><td>What is your name?</td></tr> +<tr><td> Bullee-Atap´-pah</td><td>What will you trade for?</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-Bee-Tee</td><td>Fegee man</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-America</td><td>American</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-Bullee-Tan´ee</td><td>Englishman</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ky-Tonga</td><td>Tongee man</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class='mth'>The Fegee people are named after the principal +things they are acquainted with, as their weapons, +the elements, vegetables, etc.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[75]</span></p> + +<table class='vocab mt2' id='Vocab_Wallis'> +<tr><th><i>Wallis Island</i></th><th><i>English</i></th></tr> +<tr><td> Tanga´-tah</td><td>Man</td></tr> +<tr><td> Fee-fee´-na</td><td>Women</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-lee´-kee</td><td>Chief</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-Too´-ah</td><td>Priest and the Great Spirit</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lil-La´</td><td>Good</td></tr> +<tr><td> Cov´-ee</td><td>Bad</td></tr> +<tr><td> Li´-Hee</td><td>Large</td></tr> +<tr><td> See-See</td><td>Small</td></tr> +<tr><td> A-Ty´-hee</td><td>One—1</td></tr> +<tr><td> A roo´-ah</td><td>Two—2</td></tr> +<tr><td> Tolo</td><td>Three—3</td></tr> +<tr><td> Vah</td><td>Four—4</td></tr> +<tr><td> Lee´-mah</td><td>Five—5</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ono´</td><td>Six—6</td></tr> +<tr><td> Vee´-to</td><td>Seven—7</td></tr> +<tr><td> Wah´-loo</td><td>Eight—8</td></tr> +<tr><td> Thee´-wah</td><td>Nine—9</td></tr> +<tr><td> Ung´ a boo´-ro</td><td>Ten—10</td></tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[76]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="CREW"> + <span class="smcap">Officers and Crew of Ship</span> <i>GLIDE</i> <span class="smcap">on her 14th + Voyage</span> + </h2> +</div> + +<table class='crew'> +<tr> + <th><i>Rank</i></th> + <th><i>Names</i></th> + <th><i>Place of Birth</i></th> + <th><i>Place of Residence</i></th> + <th><i>Height</i></th> + <th><i>Age</i></th> +</tr> +<tr><td>Master</td><td>Henry Archer, Jr.</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>1st Mate</td><td>Benjamin Balch, Jr.</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 5½″</td><td>24</td></tr> +<tr><td>2nd Mate</td><td>Samuel Burnham</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 9½″</td><td>24</td></tr> +<tr><td>3rd Mate</td><td>William Endicott</td><td>Danvers</td><td>Danvers</td><td>5′ 3½″</td><td>20</td></tr> +<tr><td>Armourer</td><td>Thomas Crowell</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 8″</td><td>28</td></tr> +<tr><td>Carpenter</td><td>Aaron Marden</td><td>Tuftonboro</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 6″</td><td>27</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Joseph Noble, Jr.</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 5″</td><td>21</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Henry W. Ramsdell</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 5″</td><td>22</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Andrew Reed</td><td>Gothenburg</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 6½″</td><td>18</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Antone Johnson</td><td>Genoa</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 2″</td><td>45</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Preston Crafts</td><td>Manchester</td><td>Manchester</td><td></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Joseph H. Morse</td><td>Manchester</td><td>Manchester</td><td></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Joshua B. Derby</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 5½″</td><td>16</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Edmund Knight</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 4¾″</td><td>16</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Joseph Joplin</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 6″</td><td>18</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>William Warner</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 1½″</td><td>15</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Seth Richardson</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 3″</td><td>18</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Leonard Poole</td><td>Danvers</td><td>Danvers</td><td>5′ 7¾″</td><td>22</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>Henry Fowler</td><td>Danvers</td><td>Danvers</td><td>5′ 7½″</td><td>19</td></tr> +<tr><td>Seaman</td><td>James Oliver</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td></td><td></td></tr> +<tr><td>Cook</td><td>Henry Shaw</td><td>Boston</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 2½″</td><td>42</td></tr> +<tr><td>Steward</td><td>Joseph Francis</td><td>Salem</td><td>Salem</td><td>5′ 9½″</td><td>21</td></tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[77]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="PUBLICATIONS_OF_THE"> + PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br> + MARINE RESEARCH SOCIETY<br> + SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS + </h2> +</div> + +<ol class='mrss'> +<li>THE SAILING SHIPS OF NEW ENGLAND, 1607–1907, +<span class="smcap">by John Robinson and George Francis Dow</span>. +Large 8vo. (7 × 10), 320 illustrations, 430 pages, blue +buckram binding. + +<p><i>Sixty copies were printed on large paper.</i></p> +</li> + +<li>THE PIRATES OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST, +1630–1730, <span class="smcap">by George Francis Dow and John Henry +Edmonds, with an Introduction by Capt. Ernest +H. Pentecost, R. N. R.</span> Large 8vo. (7 × 10), 47 +illustrations, 416 pages, red buckram binding. + +<p><i>Eighty-five copies were printed on large paper.</i></p> +</li> + +<li>WRECKED AMONG CANNIBALS IN THE +FIJIS, <span class="smcap">by William Endicott, with notes by Lawrence +Waters Jenkins</span>. 8vo. 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