llg cook's first voyage may, 



managed her affairs when the Dolphin was here, was 

 sent to examine whether any thing on board had 

 been taken away : and he was so well satisfied of the 

 contrary, that he left the canoe where he found it^ 

 and joined us at the fort, where he spent the day, 

 and slept on board the canoe at night. About noon, 

 some fishing boats came abreast of the tents, but 

 would part with very little of what they had on 

 board; and we felt the want of cocoa-nuts and 

 bread-fruit very severely. In the course of the day, 

 Mr. Banks walked out into the woods, that by con- 

 versing with tiie people he might recover their confi- 

 dence and good-will : he found them civil, but they 

 all complained of the ill- treatment of their Chiefs 

 who, they said, had been beaten and pulled by the 

 hair. Mr. Banks endeavoured to convince them, 

 that he had suffered no personal violence, which to 

 the best of our knowledge was true ; yet, perhaps 

 the boatswain had behaved with a brutahty which he 

 was afraid or ashamed to acknowledge. The Chief 

 himself being probably, upon recollection, of opinion 

 that we had ill deserved the hogs, which he had left 

 with us as a present, sent a messenger in the after- 

 noon to demand an axe, and a shirt, in return : but 

 as I was told that he did not intend to come down 

 to the fort for ten days, I excused myself from 

 giving them till I should see him, hoping that his 

 impatience might induce him to fetch them, and 

 knowing that absence would probably continue the 

 coolness between us, to which the first interview 

 might put an end. 



The next day we were still more sensible of the 

 inconvenience we had incurred by giving offence to 

 the people in the person of their chiefi for the mar- 

 ket was so ill-supplied that we were in want of neces- 

 saries. Mr. Banks therefore went into the woods to 

 Tubourai Tamaide, and with some difficulty persuad- 

 ed him to let us have five baskets of bread-fruit ^ a 

 very seasonable supply, as they contained above one 



