1738.
0 G T O B E R .
Wednefday
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The cook having Been very negligent‘in his bufinefs,
fpoiling often the rice, and being fufpeóted, in concert with
one o f the China-men^ his affiftant, o f appropriating to thera-
felves part o f the very fmall quantity o f meat- they could afford
to boil with i t ; he was ordered to be punilhed with a
Cobbing, In cohfequence o f the regulations before mentioned
to have been made amongft themfelves, this-was carried
b y a majority. T he Cobbing was performed by {tripping
him to the waift, and tying his hands againft a tree, to keep
him extended] when one man, with a thin flat piece of
wood, like a battledore, impofed-the number o f ftripes he
Was ordered to receive. The cook’s afiiftant was alfo punilhed
in like manner ; and another China-man for wounding
one o f his countrymen on. the head with a ftotie. R aa
Kook, feeing thefe fellows tied up, appeared concerned, and
applied to Captain Wilson to beg them off; but the fafety
o f this little community abfolutely required that regularity
and' obedience fhould be preferved; and this was fully explained
to the. General, as an apology for his reqneft not
being., complied with. He-flood by, however, whilft the
punilhment was inflidted ; and not finding it was o f a ferious-
nature,, feemed convinced our people were r ig h t; and when,
the China-men came to receive the fame difcipline, they fet
up fo lamentable a cry, that he was even diverted by their,
pufillanimity.
This afternoon three canoes came to the watering-place,-,
in one o f which was a woman, the firft that had been feenu
4 at
at Qkoq^q i^ b y ^ lr eE r a gH g fh^y« canre' rpund
to the harbour, when the woman came on Ihore; who,
after, viewing the veffel, went up to the fmith’s-fhop, and
from thence to the cook’s habitation. After looking about
with much attention, lire came, .back to th e .vefl^l which
.flah jam m e d ag#r4 for a f^w n i in ^ s lHa|td^tj^^f^B^e|i
to , hgr canoe, f She was. n^t^^cyripauied- -by ap y^ rhq^ the
men from, theyaaoes.\j Our.
Ihej ^ash a&iRfA'K°°K- ^ s ' ;gpi | e| .of f , t ime Js^the.
iWTeckvjjShe^h^eared to ^p.^^itioufly, _but,|ftll|’|^as: ex^e^.
by her curiofity ta.peep g-Jrgt^t^^ery iy^rg. I^ a jjdhfecd
they,, earp-Ojfrom EMiLLEGp|,?no \P,E-
11 w countenance among thonju , Thc-Joottom of. th e*^®*
was 'this day, begun to be caulkefl,jt^ alfo, h e r , ~ b c
laid,-*. *
The jolly-boat ftill continued her vifits to tl^e wreck?
from whence Ihe generally b^oughf fqmpthih|r, that_ .tyas
of feryiee. A canoe came into the harbour with- filh, apd
a turtle of about two hundred pounds weight. RaaJKook
fent the turtle .to the Kjng, but, gave our people mol): of
thefflh. , Jn the afternoon a-icanp^, came;^fram PELE’vyJ- to-
nqtify to the.Geperal the arrival o f ^the CHii;F:M«^r of
Arti^f.gall at that plaqe, who .had .brought yyith him
offers of pe,ace.- -.-Notjpe, of it,?^^,aifo^fepf.-fo^Captain
Wilson,
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Ö È T O B E R .
Thurfday
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