. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. but the incident is vividly pre-served in the traditions of thepeople. And it was that incidentthat greatly aided the French ingetting their foothold here. How was that? Frank in-quired. At the time of CommodorePorters visit, replied the officer,the Nookaheevans were at warw^ith a neighboring tribe. Thehostile tribe made an incursionone night and
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. but the incident is vividly pre-served in the traditions of thepeople. And it was that incidentthat greatly aided the French ingetting their foothold here. How was that? Frank in-quired. At the time of CommodorePorters visit, replied the officer,the Nookaheevans were at warw^ith a neighboring tribe. Thehostile tribe made an incursionone night and destroyed abouttwo hundred bread-fruit treesclose to Porters camp; the nextday they sent a messenger to tellhim he was a coward, and theywould come soon and attack hiscamp. Porter thereupon concludedto teach them a lesson, and sohe sent a small detachment un-der Lieutenant Downs to aid theI^ookaheevans to punish theirenemies. This was accomplished, and the hostile tribe was completely subdued. As soon as he had completed the repairs to his ships Porter sailed away, but he w^as long revered in Nookaheeva. When the French came here, thirty years afterwards, the natives thought the performance of Porter would be repeated, and the Frenchmen would. LAVA ROCK IMAGE, EASTER ISLAND. THE MUTINEERS OF THE BOUNTY. 69 aid tlie Nookaheevans to defeat their enemies. They were receivedwith open arms, and the natives were not undeceived until the Frenchhad completed their forts and were fully able to defend themselves. Continuing his reference to the natives, Franks informant said thatgreat numbers of them were at one time kidnapped and carried awayby labor-vessels, of which more will be said in a later chapter. In 1863small-pox was introduced by foreign ships, and killed nearly one-half ofthe population. Altogether the people of the Marquesas have no specialoccasion to be grateful tothe white man. During the PercCs voy-age to Tahiti our youngfriends devoted their timeto a study of that part o
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