5lG cook's iiRsr voyage no v. 



bearing west, was so ; and we gave it the name of 

 White Island. 



At day-break, on the 1st of November, we counted 

 no less than five-and-fortj canoes that were coming 

 from the shore towards the ship : seven of them came 

 up with us, and after some conv^ersation w^ith Tupia, 

 sold us some lobsters and muscles, and two conger 

 eels. These people traded pretty fairly ; but when 

 they were gone, some others came off from another 

 })lace, who began also to trade fairly : but after some 

 time they took wdiat was handed down to them, 

 without making any return ; one of them who had 

 done so, upon being threatened, began to laugh, and 

 with many marks of derision set us at defiance, at 

 the same time putting off the canoe from the ship : 

 a musket was then fired over his head, which brought 

 him back in a more serious mood, and trade went on 

 with great regularity. At length, when the cabin 

 and gun-room had got as much as they wanted, the 

 men were allowed to come to the gangway, and 

 trade for themselves. Unhappily the same care was 

 not taken to prevent frauds as had been taken before, 

 so that the Indians, finding that they could cheat 

 with impunity, grew insolent again, and proceeded to 

 take greater liberties. One of the canoes, having 

 sold every thing on board, pulled forward, and the 

 people that were in her seeing some linen hang over 

 the ship's side to dry, one of them, without any 

 ceremony, untied it, and put it up in his bundle : he 

 was immediately called to, and required to return it ; 

 instead of which, he let his canoe drop astern, and 

 laughed at us : a musket was fired over his head, 

 which did not put a stop to his mirth ; another was 

 then fired at him with small shot, which struck him 

 upon the back ; he shrunk a little when the shot hit 

 him, but did not regard it more than one of our men 

 would have done the stroke of a rattan : he continued 

 with great composure to pack up the linen that he 

 bad stolen. All the canoes now dropped astern about 



