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that this was riof' wKaf w e intended, fMe^Wanted- to come alohgfi.de
again; hut only a few fingle ones were fuffered to approach; mor
would we ever after permit the double cdnoes alorfgfide, nor to make
thoif fafli'td the flap ^
The truth of Ambler’s information we 'could never learn. As for
the canoes fheering off fo readily, and lying ahead and aftern o f the
fliip, as i f no mifchief had been intended, it is no proof o f their
innocence, for cunning and indifference is the favage marfnbS%$ft
a£Hiig till they are opeffly dfCteStedi' What offends them ds b.ft&' o f
lb trifling,a nature, that, paffihg' withoifif' oiir Abfice; "their- "TeVenge
corned unexpected. It was'fa’id fRaf-Ftrenou-, whoT carrrS'dfe the l;ftge-
double canoe when We-firft anchored, was at the head o f this plot %
and his reafon for it, that-lie received nothing in return for a pig
which he brought its yefterday, which pig the captain Had cqnfi-
dered as a compenfation for what he received on his firft v ifit: but
Feenou, when we faw him, flatly difowned having ever thought o f
doing us the leaf! mifchief ; however, it gave us no fmall fatisfac-
tion to fee the carjoes difperfe, for they could not contain lefs than
three thousand men? dKK armed with a formidable club or fpear • . fo
'that,' had they made a rufh. upon our decks, where were only thirty
undifciplined men to oppofe them, they mufb have; fuCceeded.
ju ft as this affair had fubfided, Mooihooe called alongfidewith a
prelent o f a few- yarns for the captain, requefting in return a glafs of
red wine, faying that what he drank the day before had been fer-
viceable to h i m a bottle was accordingly p u t’into the canSe, and he
immediately left us. We were all much prejudiced in favour o f this
old chief, and beheld with concern that he was halting fait to that
bourn from whence no traveller returns.
Futtafaiheand Mytyle, two great chiefs, came down between decks,
joined with us in our devotions, and followed all our attitudes- in the
profouiideft nlerice. They would fain have engaged us to go with
them j but at Ambler’s perfuafion, and promife to learn us the language/
we agreed to fix at his houfe. .
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In the afternoon the canoe ' came for the miffionaries \ things, and
was immediately loaded; Bowell, Buchanan, Gaul ton, Hamper.
. ShellevAAeefqn, ,ppd Wilkin&n, Accompanied by B. Ambler, embarked
in it, and proceeded weftward to a place called Aheefo. A
petty chief, named Commabye, was ordered by Toogahowe ,tp go
' wi^h f h q m . a n H i ng was- loft/- Kelfo, G,opper, .and Not«,
remained| m ^ o ardL to prepare thc;|m 'jpT th & things.. ƒ ..
it -1-3th. Tjtis morning, jfindingrthLe natives crojiyd about ,us as much
ase\er, andlikdwjtp.be^moupfefi^ne, the&ftream a%hor JWas ordered
onboard. Amaflagg Oyf o f thi$ha|bqur bynhempcth tyas aydgfirable
m fc e a ^ t^ s r .jn .cn fe o f a.cffmng.eail^lKwkid.,or an attack from tlje
, nath«s, when by cutting,thp cable amefcage might be effected: there-
r f0tSdhe^apMm.5>iiUmded^Q^ p ? in demphjofiit j ' apd}accprdingly
^ere^nder^wa^mv .and, withjp finej breeze, from^he
eaftward and clear weather, ftretched over towards the fmall ifland
o f Faffaa, into fix Jathoms, 'broken ground : then flood ^tay/arps
^j^tataa,„fqimdii^;, as „^ve min ^along in twelve, ‘thirteen, and fouijteeri
ra^oms, untd^^thin fwo .m ^ s j f f^ ^ la t t e r ifland, where feeing
the canoejcomirigiwitb Tome o f the brethren m*her, we apghpred.Jn
%wdv|dathcBgis,, ,broken „ground.
;^hput thrc&o,,chKk,in,t^,aft;ernppn fhc-gPt dcmgfgle j three oFthe
„^uffiqm^i^wemm^'.hpard.of per : they faid that Aheefo was farther
, fjom faho- fljip than they, at F A imde^opd jd ƒ°0be i.and tlje landing
wijb goods , wa,s yejy .bad,, b y geaiqn o f a flat which runs from tpe
beach about half a mile, and,oyer which they were obliged, .to wade
up to the knees ; and after they got to the beach, had to go further
than a mile to reach the houfe ; difficulties which made the lapding
o f ,their things .fo tedious, that fix hqprs yvere fully employed in
houfing thein, fafe :. this great trouble was-in forne degree leflened by
the natives. Their,.perfons .were not. molefted ; and, though it was
> dark, not a fingle.article o f their property was loft. It was near-one
in the morning before all was fafe, and the houfe left to themfelves.
They then went to reft, refigning their perfons and property into the
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