290 JOHN LEDYARD.- 







were aggrieved by the consideration of wanting the 

 provisions and refreshments of the country, which 

 we had every reason to suppose from their behavior 

 antecedent to our departure, would now be with- 

 held from us, or brought in such small quantities as 

 to be worse than none. What we anticipated was 

 true. When we entered the bay, where before we 

 had the shouts of thousands to welcome our arrival, 

 we had the mortification not to see a single canoe, 

 and hardly any inhabitants in the towns. Cook 

 was chagrined and his people were soured. Toward 

 night, however, the canoes came in; but the pro- 

 visions both in quantity and quality plainly informed 

 us that times were altered ; and what was very re- 

 markable was the exorbitant price they asked and 

 the particular fancy they all at once took to iron 

 daggers or dirks, which were the only articles that 

 were anyways current with the chiefs at least. It 

 was also equally evident from the looks of the na- 

 tives, as well as every other appearance, that our 

 former friendship was at an end, and that we had 

 nothing to do but to hasten our departure to some 

 different island, where our vices were not known, 

 and where our intrinsic virtues might gain us 

 another short space of being wondered at and 

 doing as we pleased, or, as our tars expressed it, of 

 being happy by the month. 



