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that atta Vahy & others who was at Tonga they Pressed upon us much
to go to Mamarka [Mamata - Vanuatu] boasting how Plentifull Provisions were at
that Place which we afterwards found to be all false but How-
ever the Captain Declined their invitaion's & as soon as a Breeze
Sprung up we made the best of our Way to Tonga tabboo and on
the 11th cast anchor of Habour before the ship Brought up several
natives Came on Board Glad at our arrival believing it to be the Missionary
Ship. They now gave me back Intelligence as I little Expected that
atta & his Relations had beat off Lohallalla & obliged him to
Return to the Nearby islands but However this Victory has not
been got without Great Bloodshed.

It seems the war began a little after we left the Island a Son
of Vahys went and killed some of Lohallala's friends the Ehaggie
Party now took up arms and several skirmishes took place in
which the Ehefomians were Victors. Drove the Ehaggie Party to
their own part of the Country and killed vast numbers of them.
The number must have been Great as they spoke of heaps of them
nearly as large as the kill of the Yakel and Wanted me to go see
them but I Declined the offer. The European's account of them is
that fifteen hundred or two thousand are lying upon one spot
Pilled one upon another at a Place and not far from Bo ha
besides what have fallen In different parts of the country
as has as looks Lohallala heard at Harby what had then place at Tonga
he gathered his force together to come and fight with the Eheefomians
and to Retaliate the murder done by Vahy's son he Immediately
killed some of attas Friends, one was Makka mo affe that [indecipherable]
In the place of Oonu Oonu to carry the pursuit to Looka Valla
to Harby and had remained there Ever since the other was Vryharta[?]
as soon as the Eheefomians heard that Looka Calla was Preparing to
come they Immediately began to make a kind of Fortress at [indecipherable]
by cutting down coconut trees & other wood and cutting them into
Certain lengths stuck them In the Ground close together round a
Good Piece of Ground sufficient to hold them all Leaving Gates
at Certain Distances by this means they made it almost
Impregnable to the Enemy. They had not waited Long before
Looka Calla came with all his people from Harby as soon as he
Came the Eheefomians Returned to their Garrison Several skirmishes
took Place Between them but no decisive Battles for near 5
Weeks also Looka Calla was Beat of Several of his canoes taken
and vast numbers killed. Fahafunwer and his Ma'ufanga
Party Likewise took up the Quarell and In a Battle not far
from Bungi was killed & his Party Beat off the Ehefornians
now were soll masters of the Islands from Looka lalla finding

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That he could not subdue them made a Peace with them & Returned
to the Harly Islands. This Peace it is to be feard will be but of
short continuence as Atta informed me he Expected them soon to
Return & fresh wars will Doubtles Ensue the chiefs killed 
this time were Vini & Dore Ardiho together with Fakafurover
the war had rendered the Island a mean Desert not and hog and
scarcely a dog was left alive the Country Greatly depoppulated and
the natives In a starving condition. In our nine Days stay there
scarely 200 yams were purchased. The Hand of the Lord has been
visibly felt among them for not only the war has destroyed Great
numbers but Likewise a disease of the Pestilential kind that
raged among  about the same time and swept of vast numbers.

In our absence we found that three Europeans had been killed
by the natives. The first was Davies who is supposed never to
have Reached the Shoar from the Retrey when We Left it to go to
Port Jackson. The next was one Robert Ogalby who was
Master of Schooner bound from China to Port Jackson but was
Unfortunately cast away upon a Reef of Rocks near one of the
Tonga Islands In the Lat. 18.10S Long. 183 East. He having
Seen Capt Wilson at China when he was there In the Duff heard that
he had Left People at the Friendly Islands was Desirous to get
to Tonga which with great difficulty he accomplished. With on
Mr Bradly the second mate In one of the Tonga Canoes am Jonah
Varsoo nearly about the same time we left the Island to go to
Port Jackson the Hardships they undured were Great both among
the Fugieans and Tonganiaans they came to Tonga 
In the Fleet that came to War against the Ehefornians and when
they were beat off they stoll away from them and got to Mafanga
and soon after got to Atta. Atta behavedkind to them gave
them our old house & Radly set to work a smithing but the
natives began to suppose that they were the cause of the Force
mentioned discease Determined to kill them and as the new
made chief of Mafanga was the Principle hand In it he sent
a man who watching the oppertunity when the Captain went
by himself at some distance from Atta killed him. Radly was
Saved through the means of Atta who Pursued the murderer of the
Captain but he fled or he would have killed him this was same
Time In May 1800. The next that was killed was Ambler
about 5 days before we got there In September by order
of his Chief Doo Vakanor at Eheefo Vengeance is mine I will
Repay it sayeth the Lord.