In the Solomon Islands.

In May, 1851, the Wanderer was at Honolulu, and by October she was cruising in the Western Pacific, visiting the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands. From San Christoval, Boyd sailed for the great mountainous island called Guadalcanar; it was one of the southern islands of the Solomons. Its lofty ranges, everywhere densely covered with forest, rose into cloudy peaks. One of the danger islands where the mountain tribes were always at war with the shore dwellers, and where the “man-a-beach” usually sent, or tried to send an arrow into any white target within range; the white man in his turn had musket or pistol always ready. It was seldom safe to venture on shore. But the white men, for all the warning? they received, were sometimes caught off their guard, and the owner of the Wanderer was one of them.