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fifts of above fixty hotifes there ; bur, perhaps, about forty '778- 



more ftand fcattered about, farther up the country, toward ' !)^^ 



the burying-place. 



After we had examined, very carefully, every thing that 

 "was to be feen about the morai, and Mr. Webber had taken 

 drawings of it, and of the adjoining country, we returned 

 by a different route. I found a great crowd aflembled at the 

 beach ; and a brifk trade for pigs, fowls, and roots, going 

 on there, with the greateft good order; though I did not 

 obferve any particular perfon, who took the lead amongfl; 

 the reft of his countrymen. At noon, I went on board .to • 

 dinner, and then fent Mr. King, to command the party 

 afliore. He was to have gone upon that fervice in the 

 morning, but was then detained in the fliip, to make lunar 

 obfervations. In the afternoon, I landed again, accompa- 

 nied by Captain Gierke, with a view to make another ex- 

 curfion up the country. But, before this could be put in 

 execution, the day was too far fpcnt ; fo that I laid afidc my 

 intention for the prefent ; and it fo happened, that I had not 

 another opportunity. At fun-fet, I brought every body on 

 board ; having procured, in the courfe of the day, nine 

 tons of water; and, by exchanges, chiefly for nails and ■ 

 pieces of iron, about feventy or eighty pigs, a few fowls, a 

 quantity of potatoes, and a few plantains, and taro roots. 

 Thefe people merited our beft commendations, in this com- 

 mercial intercourfe, never once atrempting to cheat us, 

 either afliore, or along-fide the (hips. Some of them, in- 

 deed, as already mentioned, at firft, betrayed a thievifli dif- - 

 pofition ; or rather, they thought, that they had a right to • 

 every thing tliey could lay their hands upon ; but they foon • 

 laid afide a condudV, which, we convinced them, they could i 

 not perfevere in with impunity. 



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