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ing-place, the master being in one boat and myself 

 in the other. We pulled first over to the north shore, 

 from which some canoes came out to meet us ; as we 

 advanced, however, they retired, inviting us to follow 

 them ; but seeing them all armed, I did not think it pro- 

 per to comply, but went towards the head of the bay, 

 where I observed a village upon a very high point, 

 fortified in the manner that has been already de- 

 scribed, and having fixed upon an anchoring-place 

 not far from where the ship lay, I returned onboard. 



At three o'clock in the afternoon, I weighed, run 

 in nearer to the shore, and anchored in four fathom 

 and an half water, with a soft sandy bottom, the south 

 point of the bay bearing E. distant one mile, and a 

 river which the boats can enter at low water S. S. E., 

 distant a mile and an half. 



In the morning, the natives came off again to the 

 ship, and we had the satisfaction to observe that their 

 behaviour was very different from what it had been 

 yesterday : among them was an old man, whom we 

 had before remarked for his prudence and honesty : 

 his name was Toiava, and he seemed to be a person 

 of a superior rank ; in the transactions of yesterday 

 morning he had behaved with great propriety and 

 good sense, lying in a small canoe, always near the 

 ship, and treating those on board as if he neither in- 

 tended a fraud, nor suspected an injury: with some 

 persuasion this man and another came on board, and 

 ventured into the cabin, where I presented each of 

 them with a piece of English cloth and some spike 

 nails. They told us that the Indians were now very 

 much afraid of us, and on our part we promised 

 friendship, if they would behave peaceably, desiring 

 only to purchase what they had to sell upon their 

 own terms. 



After the natives had left us, I went with the pin- 

 nace and long boat into the river with a design to 

 haul the seine, and sent the master in the yawl to 

 sound the bay and dredge for fish. The Indian^, who 



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