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cloth was handed over the ship's side, but his honour 

 immediately put off his canoe with the axe. We had 

 recourse to our usual expedient, and fired a musket 

 ball over the canoe, upon which it put back to the 

 ship, and the piece of cloth was returned ; all the 

 boats then went ashore, without offering any further 

 intercourse. 



At noon, the main land extended from S. by E. to 

 N. W. by W. a remarkable point of land bearing W. 

 distant four or five miles ; at three we passed it, and 

 1 gave it the name of Cape Bret, in honour of Sir 

 Piercy. The land of this cape is considerably higher 

 than any part of the adjacent coast : at the point of 

 it, is a high round hillock, and N. E. by N. at the 

 distance of about a mile, is a small high island or 

 rock, which, like several that have already been de- 

 scribed, was perforated quite through, so as to appear 

 like the arch of a bridge. This cape, or at least 

 some part of it, is by the natives called Motugogogo, 

 and it lies in latitude 35° 10' 30^' S. longitude 185° 

 ^5' W. On the west side of it is a large and pretty 

 deep bay, lying in S. W. by W. in which there ap- 

 peared to be several small islands : the point that 

 forms the N. W. entrance, lies W. i N. at the dis- 

 tance of three or four leagues from Cape Bret, and I 

 distinguished it by the name of Point Pococke. On 

 the west side of the bay, we saw several villages, both 

 upon islands and the main, and several very large 

 canoes came off to us, full of people, who made a 

 better appearance than any we had seen yet : they 

 were all stout and well-made ; their hair, which was 

 black, was tied up in a bunch on the crown of their 

 heads, and stuck with white feathers. In each of 

 the canoes, were two or three chiefs, whose habits 

 were of the best sort of cloth, and covered with dog's 

 «kin, so as to make an agreeable appearance : most 

 of these people were marked with the Amoco, like 

 those who had been alongside of us before : their 

 manner of trading was also equally fraudulent j and 



