2l# cook's SECOND VOYAGE OCT. 



the country with Mr. Hodges, to make drawings of 

 such places and things as were most interesting. 

 When this was done, we returned on board to dinner, 

 with my friend and two other chiefs ; one of which 

 sent a hog on board the Adventure for Captain Fur- 

 neaux, some hours before, without stipulating for any 

 return ; the only instance of this kind. My friend 

 took care to put me in mind of the pig the old king 

 gave me in the morning ; for which I now gave a 

 chequed shirt and a piece of red cloth. I had tied 

 them up for him to carry ashore ; but with this he 

 was not satisfied. He wanted to have them put on 

 him ; which was no sooner done, than he went on 

 deck, and shewed himself to all his countrymen. He 

 had done the same thing in the morning with the sheet 

 I gave him. In the evening we all went on shore 

 again, where we found the old king, who took to 

 himself every thing my friend and the others had got. 



The different trading parties were so successful to- 

 day as to procure for both ships a tolerably good sup- 

 ply of refreshments. In consequence of which, I, 

 the next morning, gave every one leave to purchase 

 what curiosities and other things they pleased. After 

 this, it w r as astonishing to see with what eagerness 

 every one caught at every thing he saw. It even 

 went so far as to become the ridicule of the natives, 

 who offered pieces of sticks and stones to exchange. 

 One waggish boy took a piece of human excrement 

 on the end of a stick, and held it out to every one he 

 met with. 



This day a man got into the master's cabin, through 

 the outside scuttle, and took out some books and 

 other things. He was discovered just as he was get- 

 ting out into his canoe, and pursued by one of our 

 boats, which obliged him to quit the canoe and take 

 to the water. The people in the boat made several 

 attempts to lay hold on him ; but he as often dived 

 under the boat, and at last, having unshipped the 

 rudder, which rendered her ungovernable, by this 



