The fuccefs of the preceding afternoon tempted us to
haul the feinea fécond time this evening, by which means
we got about forty-eight pounds of filh. When we landed
we faw very few natives, but in a fliort time they collected'
near us in great crouds, moll of them without any arms,
having left them in the bulhes, probably to pleafe us. Towards
funfet they all difperfed, and only a few remained,
who came up and told us that they wanted to go to deep;
We made figns to them to depart, and they all left us immediately.
We thought we might explain this behaviour
as a kind of ceremony, and that they did not think it civil
to leave their guefts alone in their own country. This cir-
cumdance would imply, that they have ideas of propriety1
and decency, which we fhould hardly have expected among
an uncivilized people.
The next morning Dr. Sparrman, with my father and
myfelf, landed under the deep mountain on the well fide of
the bay, where a party of failors were lent to load fhingle
for ballad. A little fwell came in upon the fihorfe in this
place, which obliged us to wade through the furf. On the
deep fides of the hill we gathered feveral new plants, and
did down the precipice feveral times. Diffèrent forts' of
minerals appeared in this place. The principal drata of
the deep hill confid of a fpecies of clay, very foft, and
crumbling in pieces when expofed to the air and moidure.
We alfo found a fpecies of black fand-done, a fubdance re-
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fembling rotten-done (lapis fuilhtsj, and fome pieces of Aosmix
chalk, which were either pure, or tinged with a reddifli
colour, perhaps arifing from particles of iron. We walked
feveral hundred yards along the beach, towards the wed
point of the harbour, and at lad feeing a path which led
up the hill, prepared to advance into the country, when we-
were met by a number of natives, who were all-armed.
We then rejoined our party, who loaded ballad, and traded
with the natives for a few fugar-canes and coco-nuts.
They all fat down on the rocks near u s a n d one of them,,
to whom the red paid feme deference, exchanged names
with my father. He was called Oomb-yegan. This
cuftom of making friendfhip, by a reciprocal exchange of
names, is common, in all the fouthern iflands which we-
had hitherto vifited, and in reality has fomething in it very
engaging and affeflionatei After having been in this
manner adopted among the natives, we continued upon the-
bed terms - imaginable, and collefted great fupplements to
the vocabulary. They made us a prefent of fome leaves of
a fig, which had been wrapped in banana-leaves, and
dewed. They were extremely well faded, and might be-
eaten as a fubftitute for our fpinach. We 1-ikewife obtained
two large plantanes of the coarfer fort ; which
proved, that even here the fpirit o f hofpitality is natural to
the inhabitants. The women and children brought down
thefe dainties from the. hills, and prefented them to u s ; buti
they