The villages were all burned, along with the tobacco and trade stuff.

The cocoanuts and bananas were chopped down, the taro gardens
uprooted, and the pigs and chickens killed.

It taught Fanfoa a lesson, but in the meantime he was out of tobacco.
Also, his young men were too frightened to sign on with the recruiting
vessels. That was why Fanfoa ordered his slave, Mauki, to be carried
down and signed on for half a case of tobacco advance, along with
knives, axes, calico, and beads, which he would pay for with his toil
on the plantations. Mauki was sorely frightened when they brought him
on board the schooner. He was a lamb led to the slaughter. White men
were ferocious creatures. They had to be, or else they would not make
a practice of venturing along the Malaita coast and into all harbors,
two on a schooner, when each schooner carried from fifteen to twenty
blacks as boat's crew, and often as high as sixty or seventy black
recruits. In addition to this, there was always the danger of the
shore population, the sudden attack and the cutting off of the
schooner and all hands. Truly, white men must be terrible. Besides,
they were possessed of such devil-devils--rifles that shot very
rapidly many times, things of iron and brass that made the schooners
go when there was no wind, and boxes that talked and laughed just as
men talked and laughed.

Ay, and he had heard of one white man whose particular devil-devil was
so powerful that he could take out all his teeth and put them back at
will.

Down into the cabin they took Mauki. On deck, the one white man kept
guard with two revolvers in his belt. In the cabin the other white man