j767- they had left upon the beach for them, and fomebody fug-
> .. gelling that they would not take our offering becaufe we
Friday z6. ]lacj not accepted their cloth, I gave orders that it fhould be
fetched away. The event proved that the conjecture was
true, for the moment the boat had taken the cloth on board,
the Indians came down, and with every poflible demonftra-
tion o f joy, carried away all I had fent them into the wood.
Our boats then went to the watering-place, and filled and
brought off all the calks, to the amount of about fix tons.
We found that they had fuffered no injury while they had
been in the pofieffion o f the Indians, but fome leathern
buckets and funnels which had been taken away with the
calks, were not returned.
Saturday zj. The next morning I fent the boats on Ihore, with a guard,
to fill fome more calks with water, and foon after the people
were on Ihore, the fame old man who had come over the
river to them the firft day, came again to the farther fide o f
it, where he made a long fpeech, and then crolfed the
water. When he came up to the waterers, the officer
Ihewed him the Hones that were piled up like cannon balls
upon the Ihore, and had been brought thither fince our firft
landing, and fome o f the bags that had been taken out of
th e canoes which I had ordered to be deftroyed, filled with
Hones, and endeavoured to make him underftand that the
Indians had been the aggreflors, and that the mifchief we'
had done them was in our own defence. The old man
feemed to apprehend his meaning, but not to admit it: he
immediately made a fpeech to the people, pointing to the
Hones, flings, and bags, with great emotion, and fometimes
his looks, geftures, and voice were fo furious as to be
frightful. "His palfions, however, fubfided by degrees, and
the officer, who to his great regret could not underftand one
word
word o f all that he had faid, endeavoured to convince him, 1767.
by all the figns he could devife, that we wiffied to live in ■ J“°e' ■
friendlhip with them, and were difpofed to fliew them every Saturila7 27•
mark o f kindnefs in our power. He then Ihook hands with
him, and embraced him, giving him at the fame time feve-
ral fuch trinkets as he thought would be moft acceptable.
He contrived alfo to make the old man underftand that we
wilhed to traffic for provifions, that the Indians Ihould not
come down in great numbers, and that they Ihould keep on
one fide of the river and we on the other. After this the old
man went away with great appearance o f fatisfadlion, and
before noon a trade was eftablifhed, which furnifhed us with
hogs, fowls, and fruit in great abundance, fo that all the
fhip’s- company, whether fick or well, had as much as they
could ufe.
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