returned aboard. After dinner I fent the boats, under the
protection of a guard, afhore for water. On their landing,
the natives all fled but one man, and he feemed much
frightened; afterwards one or two more came down; and
thefe were all that were feen this afternoon. We could not
conceive the reafon of this fudden fright.
Saturdays. Early in the morning of the 9th, the boats were fent a®
ufual for water; and, juft as they were coming off, but-not before,
fome of the natives made their appearance. After break -
faft 1 landed fome little time before the guard, when the natives
crowded round me,in great numbers ; but as foon as the
guard landed, I had enough to do to keep them from running
off; at length their fears vanifhed, and a trade was opened
for fruit and pigs. I believe the reafon of the natives flying
from our people the day before, was their not feeing me at
the head of them; for they certainly would have done the
fame to-day had I not been prefent. About noon, a chief of
fome confequence^ attended by a great number of people,
came down to the landing-place. I prefented him with fuch
articles as I had with me; and, in return, he gave me fome
of his ornaments. After thefe mutual exchanges a good un-
derftanding feemed to be eftablifhed between us ; fo that we
got by exchanges as much fruit as loaded two boats, with
which we returned on board to dinner; but could not prevail
on the chief to accompany us.
In the afternoon the watering and trading parties were fent
on fhore; tho’ the latter got but little, as moft of the natives
had retired into the country. A party of us went to the
other, or fouthern, cove of the bay, where I procured five
pigs, and came to the houfe, which, we were told, did be-
. long
long to the man we had killed. He muft have been a perfon
of fome note, as there were fix pigs in and about his houfe, *--- .—
Saturday 9.
which we were told belonged to his fon, who fled on our approach.
I wanted much to have feen him, to make him a
prefent, and, by other kind treatment, to convince him and
the others, that it was not from any bad defign againft the
nation, that we had killed his father. It would have been
to little purpofe, if I had left any thing in the houfe, as it
certainly would have been taken by others ; efpecially as I
could not fufficiently explain to them my meaning. Stridl
honefty was feldom obferved when the property of our
things came to be difputed. I faw aftriking inftance of this
in the morning when I was going afhore. A man in a
canoe offered me a fmall pig for a fix inch fpike, and another
man being employed to convey it, I gave him the fpike,
which he kept for himfelf, and inftead of it, gave to the
man who owned the pig a fixpenny nail. Words of courfe
arofe, and I waited to fee how it would end; but as the man
who had pofleffion of the fpike feemed refolved to keep it,
I left them before it was decided. In the evening we returned
on board with what refrefhments we had collected,.
and thought we had made a good day’s work.
On the 10th, early in the.morning, fome people from Su-n<Jajrl0>
more diftant parts came in canoes along-fide, and fold us
fome pigs ; fo that we had now fufficient to give- the crew a
frefh meal. They were, in general, fo fmall that forty or
fifty were hardly fufficient for this purpofe. The trade on
fhore for fruit was as brifk as ever. After dinner, I made a
little expedition in my boat along the coaft to the fouth-
ward, accompanied by fome of the gentlemen: at the different
places we touched at, we collected eighteen pigs; and,
I believe,