According to the files enclosed with
this document, Burton was involved with the
Daedalus’s attack on Nahwitti villages in 1851, over the murder of three British seamen. Burton
reported to
Wellesley that he found and destroyed one deserted village, but was unable to reach the second
camp due to time, weather, and injury to three of his men, following an attack by
some Indigenous men.
At the time of this writing, we have only the transcription of this document and not
an image scan of the original.