336 cook's second voyage may, 



dread of our fire-arms. By our ceasing to observe 

 the second, the first would have worn out of course; 

 and the too frequent use of the latter would have 

 excited a spirit of revenge, and perhaps have taught 

 them that fire-arms were not such terrible things as 

 they had imagined. They were very sensible of the 

 superiority of their numbers ; and no one knows what 

 an enraged multitude might do. 



