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wound them mortally. Having now taken courage, 

 they came and sat down by us, and as tokens of our 

 perfect amity, w^e made them presents of such trifles 

 as we happened to have about us. 



Soon after we re-embarked in our boats, and hav- 

 ing rowed to another cove in the same island, climbed 

 a neighbouring hill, which commanded the country 

 to a considerable distance. The prospect was very 

 uncommon and romantic, consisting of innumerable 

 islands, which formed as many harbours, where the 

 water was as smooth as a mill-pool : we saw also many 

 towns, scattered houses, and plantations, the country 

 being much more populous than any we had seen. 

 One of the towns was very near us, from which many 

 of the Indians advanced, taking great pains to show 

 us that they were unarmed, and in their gestures 

 and countenances expressing great meekness and 

 humility. In the mean time some of our people, 

 who, when the Indians were to be punished for a 

 fraud, assumed the inexorable justice of a Lycurgus, 

 thought fit to break into one of their plantations, and 

 dig up some potatoes: for this offence I ordered each 

 of them to be punished with twelve lashes, after 

 which two of them were discharged ; but the third, 

 insisting that it was no crime in an Englishman to 

 plunder an Indian plantation, though it was a crime 

 in an Indian to defraud an Englishman of a nail, I 

 ordered him back into his confinement, from which 

 I would not release him till he had received six lashes 

 more. 



On the 30th, there being a dead calm, and no 

 probability of our getting to sea, I sent the master, 

 with two boats, to sound the harbour ; and all the 

 forenoon had several canoes about the ship, who 

 traded in a very fair and friendly manner. In the 

 evening we went ashore upon the main, where the 

 people received us very cordially , but we found 

 nothing worthy of notice. 



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