He also contended that better confidence was established by carrying no weapons.

On his second trip to Malaita, recruiting, he ran into Bina, which is near Langa Langa.
The rifles with which the boat's-crew should have been armed, were locked up in his cabin.

When the whale-boat went ashore after recruits, he paraded around the deck without even a revolver on him.

He was tomahawked.

His head remains in Malaita.