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ship. We saw however other horsemen, and a great 

 number of persons on foot, gather round our people, 

 and, to our great satisfaction, perceived several 

 cocoa-nuts carried into the boat, from which we 

 concluded that peace and commerce were established 

 between us. 



After the boat had been ashore about an hour and 

 a half, she made the signal for having intelligence 

 that there was a bay to leeward, where we might 

 anchor : we stood away directly for it, and the boat 

 following, soon came on board. The lieutenant 

 told us, that he had seen some of the principal 

 people, who were dressed in fine linen, and had 

 chains of gold round their necks : he said, that he 

 had not been able to trade, because the owner of the 

 cocoa-nuts was absent, but that about two dozen had 

 been sent to the boat as a present, and that some 

 linen had been accepted in return. The people, to 

 give him the information that he wanted, drew a 

 map upon the sand, in which they made a rude re- 

 presentation of a harbour to leeward, and a town 

 near it : they also gave him to understand, that 

 sheep, hogs, fowls, and fruit, might there be pro- 

 cured in great plenty. Some of them frequently 

 pronounced the word Portuguese, and said some- 

 thing of Larntuca upon the island of Ende : from 

 this circumstance, we conjectured that there were 

 Portuguese somewhere upon the island, and a Por- 

 tuguese, who was in our boat, attempted to converse 

 with the Indians in that language, but soon found 

 that they knew only a word or two of it by rote : one 

 of them, however, when they were giving our people 

 to understand that there was a town near the harbour 

 to which they had directed us, intimated, that as a 

 token of going right, we should see somewhat, which 

 he expressed by crossing his fingers, and the Portu- 

 guese instantly conceived that he meant to express a 

 cross. Just as our people were putting off, the horse- 



