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The whole place was full of wailing. Revenge was all the cry. 'Let not their pigs be killed, said Takua; 'we will give them to Bisope, he shall avenge us. His brother Dikea broke out: 'My humour is bad because Bisope does not take us about in his vessel to kill-kill these people!
When, two days later, the 'Southern Cross' was unmistakeably in sight, Takua said, 'Let Bisope only bring a man-of-war, and get me vengeance on my adversaries, and I shall be exalted like like like our Father above! The residence of Mr.
'On July 11, a "Sydney vessel," as the natives called it, was on the west of the island, and nine natives were reported to Mr Brooke as having been killed, and with so much evidence that he had no doubt on the subject. 'On the 13th Takua came to him to say the "Kill-kill" vessel had anchored four miles off. What was he to do? "How was it you and Bisope came first, and then these slaughterers?
Five men in Fiji are known to have been stolen from Nukapu; and probably their families believed them to have been killed, and believed themselves to be performing a sacred duty when they dipped their weapons in the blood of the Bisope, whom they did not know well enough to understand that he was their protector.
They knew nothing of flags of truce; and when they saw a boat approaching, full of white men, armed, what could they apprehend but vengeance for 'Bisope'? So they discharged a volley of arrows, and a sergeant of marines was killed. This was an attack on the British flag, and it was severely chastised with British firearms.
He alone knew the way by which the reef could be crossed in the now rising tide, so that his presence was necessary. Meantime Mr. Brooke extracted as best he might the arrows from poor Stephen. 'We two Bisope, said the poor fellow, meaning that he shared the same fate as the Bishop. As Joseph Wate, a lad of fifteen, Mr.
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