MASSACRE AT PENTICOST.
The Magellan Cloud arrived in Auckland from Fiji during the latter part of February. The Fiji Times states that the Marion Renny from Tanna spoke the Mystery, W. A. Turner, master. He reports that a man belonging to the brig Heather Bell, Daly, bound to Fiji, as having been killed on the north side of the west end of Aoba; his name, James Merlin. The man was forcibly seized by the Natives, and eaten. At Penticost the Mystery sent a boat ashore, but as it did not return, she worked to the place where the boat was seen to land, on nearing which, the boat was seen broadside on the beach, much knocked about. A little south Mr. Muir's body was seen being carried up into the bush; the body was stripped and naked. A person was seen walking to the northward, but whether black or white could not be made out, it being too dark. The Mystery then stood off and on the place for the night, during which time she had the bulwarks painted black (which had been white before) so as to deceive the Natives, and so endeavour to recover some of the poor fellows who had been in the boats. On the morning of the 10th, the Mystery stood close in, and sailed about the whole day, recruiting one man, who seems to know nothing about the massacre; he had been to Fiji. After sailing about, the second boat having been close in shore saw nothing of the missing people ; the other boat the Natives hauled into the bush. Captain Suman describes the Natives round the captured boat as ants round a grain of corn. > The Mystery, after waiting until dark, and seeing no signs of the missing men, made sail and continued her voyage for the purpose of endeavouring to meet one .of the " scourers of the seas." The Natives at Aoba say they are fighting with the bush tribe who killed a man out of the Heather Bell in at the place of the Mystery mishap. Natives would not come near the boat. At the next village they warned us to he careful, as the Natives of the next -place—meaning where the crew of the Mystery's boat were massacred —had lately fired at a ship's boat on their calling, and they had fired at a boat belonging to the Dauntless.
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Waka Maori, Volume I, Issue 26, 29 March 1879, Page 366
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399MASSACRE AT PENTICOST. Waka Maori, Volume I, Issue 26, 29 March 1879, Page 366
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