September ^fr^hed, wanted to proceed {till farther. But this I opppfed,
'---r-— > thinking that we might be carried to the very fartheil end Monday 6. ° J
o f the ifland, after things, the moil of which, before they
came into our hands again, might not be worth the bringing
home. The chief ufed many arguments to perfuade
me to proceed, telling me that I might fend my boat round
to meet us, or that he would get a canoe to bring us home,
if I thought.it too far to travel. But I was refolved to return,
and he,was obliged to comply and return with me, when
. he faw I would follow him no farther. I only defired he
would fend fomebody for the things; for I found that the
thieves had got fo much flart of us, that we might follow
them to the remote!! parts of the file, without fo much as
feeing them. Befides, as I intended to fail the next morning,
this occafioned a great lofs to us, by putting a flop to
. all manner of trade; for the natives were fo much alarmed,
that none came near us, but thofe that were about the chief.
It, therefore, became the more necefiary for me to return, to
reftore things to their former Rate. When we got back to
our boat, we there found Oree’S filler, and feveral more
perfons who had travelled by land to the place. We immediately
flopped into the boat in order to return on board,
without fo much as afking the chief to accompany us. He,
however, infilled on going alfo; apd followed us into the
boat in fpite of the oppofition and entreaties of thofe about
him; his filler followed his example, and the tears and
prayers of her daughter, who was about fixteen or eighteen
years of age, had no weight with her on this occafion. The
chief fat at table with us, and made a hearty dinner; his
filler, according to cultom, eat nothing. After dinner, I
fufficiently rewarded them for the confidence they had put
in
AND ROUND THE WORLD.
in me; and, foon after, carried them both on lhore, where 1773.
fome hundreds of people waited to receive them, many of ,
whom embraced their chief with tears of joy. All was now Mo”da)' 6‘
joy and peace: the people crowded in, from every part, with
hogs, fowls, and fruit, fo that we prefently filled two boats:
Oree himfelf prefented me with a large hog and a quantity
of fruit. The hanger (the only thing of value Mr. Sparr-
man had loll) with part of his coat, were brought us; and
we were told, we Ihould have the others the next day. Some
of the officers, who were out on a fhooting party, had fome
things ftolen from them, which were returned in like
manner.
Thus ended the troublefome tranfaclions of this day,
which I have been the more particular in relating, becaufe it
fhews what great confidence this brave old chief put in us;
it alfo, in fome degree, Ihews that friendlhip is facred with
them. Oree and I were profeffed friends in all the forms
cuflomary among them; and he feemed to think that this
could not be broken by the aft of any other perfons. Indeed
this feemed to be the great argument he made ufe of
to his people, when they oppofed his going into my boat.
His: words were to this effeft.—“ Oree (meaning me, for fo
“ I was always called) and I are friends; I have done no-
“ thing to forfeit his friendlhip; why then Ihould I not go
“ with him ?” We, however, may never find another chief,
who will aft in the fame manner under fimilar circum-
ftances. It may be alked, What had he to fear ? to which I
anfwer, Nothing. For it was not my intention to hurt an
hair of his head, or to detain him a moment longer than he
defired. But how was he or the people to know this ? They
were not ignorant, that, if he was once in my power, the '
whole