The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-12
Massacre at the solomon Islands.

We clip the following from the Sydney Morning
Herald:
The schooner Lduinid arrived ia port on Satur-
day, July %, from the Solomon Islands. During
her cruise among the group IA terrible catastrophe
occurred to a number of her crew. instigated no
doubt by the outrages that have been committed
on the natives by vessels in search OF laborers.
The following particulars of what may be termed
a massacre are taken from the log of the LdUinid,
and have. been furnished to us by Captain Brodie
On the 26th of April. we anchored In a small
blight at the eastern end or the Florida Islands. We
Gshed there for ten days very successfully-the
chief Domo rendering his assistance in keeping
order among the natives on shore. 1t was by his
advice that we shifted round to Moboli haroor,
about four miles from where We then were.
On Monday, the 9th of May, We arrived at Mo-
boil. and got our houses mp, ready Tor curing oeche-
de-mer. The natives at that place indicated treach-
cry.
Friday. IOth-Everything looking very quiet on
shore and not many natives about after we had
our breakfast l told Louis Nixon and five OF our
natives to get into the whaleboat, as l was going
awav to look for another harbOr before getting
into the boat / particularly told the three men on
board the schooner to allow no natives on board
. We started with a fine breeze right ait. After we
got away about four miles the wind began to fresben
into a stiH breeze. and j began to be afraid. II we
went away any further, that the natives would not
be able to pull back. so i turned round and made
for the schooner. When we got about six hundred
yards from the vessel, we heard a shrek. and look
ing towards the shore. we saw a native swimming
of to the boat. We pulled towards him. and. to
our surprise. found him to be one OF Our own men,
and. from what we could make ont Of him, and see
ing no movements on board the schooner, we pulled
along shore. The Florida natives were yelling and
brandishing their spears at us. and l surmised that
there must be something wrong. As we pulled up
to the schooner, We all got ready for boarding. and
on getting alongside We jumped up all together :;
seeisg no natives on deck We rushed to the matches
to see if they had got possession, but there was not
a living soul on board. but we saw one OF the most
horrible sights Imaginable. James Shearer was
living alongside the MINDLESS with his head split
omen. aud several wounds in his side Charles
Wolf was lying amidships with his head battered
in. and his brains scattered over the matches Geo.
Sellars was lying aft with his head very nearly
severed from his body. L think from the appear
ance of the bodies that Sellars was the only one
that had q struggle with the natives. Shortly after
we got possession of the schooner, our own natives
rushed out of the bush into the water, and L sent the
boat and picked them all up From shore we
learned that the mate, Francis Warnham: and Ed
ward Nichols had been murdered on shore with
three of our own natives. The Florida natives be-
gan to gather along the beach in large numbers
yelling. so we at once buried the bodies aud got
the schooner underway, for we did not consider 1t
safe to wait any longer than we could possibly heip.