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the seine than before ; nevertheless, we did not re- 

 turn on board quite empty, having purchased a large 

 quantity from the natives. When we were upon this 

 traffic, they showed a great inclination to pick my 

 pockets, and to take away the fish with one hand 

 which they had just given me with the other. This evil 

 one of the chief's undertook to remove, and with fury 

 in his eyes made a show of keeping the people at a 

 proper distance. I applauded his conduct, but at the 

 same time kept so good a look-out, as to detect him 

 in picking my pocket of a handkerchief, which I 

 suffered him to put in his bosom before I seemed to 

 know any thing of the matter, and then told him 

 what I had lost. He seemed quite ignorant and in- 

 nocent, till I took it from him ; and then he put it 

 off with a laugh, acting his part with so much ad- 

 dress, that it was hardly possible for me to be angry 

 with him ; so that we remained good friends, and he 

 accompanied me on board to dinner. About that 

 time we were visited by several strangers, in four or 

 five canoes, who brought with them fish and other 

 articles, which they exchanged for cloth, &c. These 

 new comers took up their quarters in a cove near us ; 

 but very early the next morning moved off with six 

 of our small water casks, and with them all the people 

 we found here on our arrival. This precipitate re- 

 treat of these last we supposed was owing to the 

 theft the others had committed. They left behind 

 them some of their dogs, and the boar I had given 

 them the day before, which 1 now took back again, 

 as I had not another. Our casks were the least loss 

 we felt by these people leaving us ; while they re- 

 mained, we were generally well supplied with fish, 

 at a small expence. 



We had fair weather, with the wind at north-east, 

 on the 9th, which gave us some hopes of seeing the 

 Adventure ; but these hopes vanished in the after- 

 noon, when the wind shifted to the westward. 



The next morning our friends the natives returned 



