23rd May 1898

MONDAY

6 am we got up anchor and proceeded to some other Islands of the same Group hoisting the Union Jack on three during the day ?Wibauga ?Banipi & Pileni at the last named Island there was a big Bug of a Chief who was constantly making raids on the neighbouring Islands killing the men and carrying away there young women & children, we made a prisoner of the Chief and a lot of his followers, took them down to the beach, so that they was in sight of the of the ship, and flogged them, and made the chief  understand that if he did not stop fighting and molesting the other Islands we would shoot him and burn all his villages down we then made him a present of some Blue Suge Clay pipes and tobacco, the natives of this island was noted for there treacherous cunning yet at this place lived a trader all by himself, we fired a salute of 21 guns when the Union Jack was hoisted, after every thing had quietened down we proceeded to Sea going at slow speed.