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1767. the gauntlet-thrice round the deck: my rhetoric, however,
July'.
i----,---- 1 had very little effect, for moft o f ; the crew bèingéqually cri-
Monday .0 . mjnaj wjtj1 himfelf, he was handled fo tenderly,1 that others
were rather encouraged to repeat the offence by the hope of
impunity, than deterred by the fear o f punifhment. To
prefcrve the fhip, therefore, from being pulled to pieces,
•and the price o f refreffiments from being railed Co high as
foon to exhauft our articles o f trade, I ordered that no! man
except the woeders and waterers, with their guard, IhOuld
be permitted to go on fhore. -
T uefday 21. On the 21ft, the queen came again on board, and brought
'feveral large hogs as a prefent, for which, as ufual, ffie
would accept of no return. When ffie was about, to ;le.ave
the fhip, Ihe exprefled a defire that I fhould go on fliore
with her, to which I confented, taking feveral o f the officers
with me. When we arrived at her houfe, Ihe made us all
fit down, and taking off my hat, fhe tied to it a bunch or
tuft o f feathers o f various colours, fuch as I had feen no
perfon on fhore wear but herfelf, which produced by no
means a difagreeable effect. She alfo tied round my hat,
and the hats o f thofe who were w ith me, wreaths of braided
or plaited hair, and gave us to underhand that both the hair
and workmanffiip were her own i ffie alfo prefented us with
fome matts, that were very curioufly wrought. In thé evening
ffie accompanied us back to the beach, and when wè
were getting into the boat, ffie put on board a fine large
fow, big with young, and a great quantity o f fruit. A's wé
were parting, I made figns that I fhould quit the ifland in
fevendays: ffie immediately comprehended my meaning,
and made figns that I fhould flay twenty days ; that I fhould
go two days journey into the country, flay there a few days,
bring down plenty of hogs and poultry, and after that leave
the ifland. I again made figns that I muff go in feven days;
upon
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upon which ffie burft into tears, and it was not without '70-
great difficulty that ffie was pacified. t____ §
The next morning, the gunner fent off no lefs than twenty WeJaer. 22.
hogs, with gréât plenty of fruit. Our decks were now quite
full of hogs and poultry, o f which we killed only the fmall
ones, and kept the others for fea flores ; we found, however,
to our great mortification, that neither the fowls nor
the hogs could, without great difficulty, be brought to eat
any thing but fruit, which made it neceffary to kill them
fafler than we fhould otherwife have done : two, however, a
boar and a fow, were brought alive to England, of which I
made a prefènt to ïvîr. Stephens, Secretary to the. Admiralty;
the fow afterwards died in pigging, but the boâr is flill alive.
On the 33d, we had very heavy rain, with a florm of wind Thurfday 23.
that blew down feveral trees on fhore, though very little of
it was felt where the fhip lay.,
The next day, I fent the old .man, who had been of great Friday 24.
fervice to the gunner at the market-tent, another iron pot,
fome hatchets and bills, and a piece o f cloth. I alfo fent the
queen two turkies, two geefe, three Guinea hens, a cat big
with kitten, fome china, looking-gla'ffèsyglafs-bottles; ffiirts,
needles, thread, cloth, ribands, peas, fome fmall white kidney
beans, called callivances, and about fixteen different forts
o f garden feeds; and a ffiovel, befides a confiderable quantity
of cutlery wares, confiding ! o f knives’, feiffars, billhooks,
and other things. We had already planted feveral
forts of the garden feeds, and fome peas in feveral places,
and had the pleafure to fee them come up in a very flouriffi-
ingflate, yet there were no remains of-them when Captain
Cook left the ifland. I ; fen t, her alfo-two iron pots, and a
few fpoons. In return for thefe-things, the'gunner brought
off eighteen hog-s,-! andfome'fniif."
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