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arose, and I waited to see how it would end ; but as 

 the man who had possession of the spike seemed 

 resolved to keep it, I left them before it was decided. 

 In the evening, we returned on board with what re- 

 freshments we had collected, and thought we had 

 made a good day's work. 



On the 10th, early in the morning, some people 

 from more distant parts came in canoes along side, 

 and sold us some pigs ; so that we had now sufficient 

 to give the crew a fresh meal. They were in general 

 so small that forty or fifty were, hardly sufficient for 

 this purpose. The trade on shore for fruit was as 

 brisk as ever. After dinner I made a little expedi- 

 tion in my boat along the coast to the southward, 

 accompanied by some of the gentlemen ; at the 

 different places we touched at, we collected eighteen 

 pigs; and, I believe, might have gotten more. The 

 people were exceedingly obliging wherever we landed, 

 and readily brought down whatever we desired. 



Next morning [ went down to the same place 



where we had been the preceding evening; but, 



instead of getting pigs as I expected, found the 



scene quite changed. The nails and other things 



they were mad after but the evening before they now 



despised ; and instead of them wanted they did not 



know what ; so that I was obliged to return with 



three or four little pigs, which cost more than a 



dozen did the day before. When I got on board I 



found the same change had happened there, as also 



at the trading place on shore. The reason was, several 



of the young gentlemen having landed the preceding 



day,had given awayin exchange various articles which 



the people had not seen before, and which took with 



them more than nails or more useful iron tools. But 



what ruined our market the most was, one of them 



giving for a pig a very large quantity of red feathers 



he had got at Amsterdam. None of us knew, at this 



time, that this article was in such estimation here ; 



and if I had known it, I could not have supported 



