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fend for our party till the next morning ; and thus they had »77?- 



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another night to improve their intercourfe with the na- v_,-v — » 

 tives. 



Encouraged by the matter's report, I fent a boat to the February, 

 South Eaft point, as foon as day-light returned, with an or- ^""'^^y '• 

 der to Mr. Gore, that, if he could not embark his people 

 from the fpot where they now were, to march them up ro 

 the point. As the boat could not get to the beach, one of 

 the crew fwam afliore, and carried the order. On the return 

 of the boat, I went myfclf with the pinnace and launch up 

 to the point, to bring the party on board ; taking with me 

 a ram-goat and two ewes, a boar and fow pig of the Eng- 

 lifh breed ; and the feeds of melons, pumpkins, and onions; 

 being very defirous of benefiting thcfe poor people, by fur- 

 nifliing them with fome additional articles of food. I 

 landed with the greateft eafe, under the Weft fide of the 

 point, and found my party already there, with fome of the 

 natives in company. To one of them, whom Mr. Gore had 

 obferved afiTuming fome command over the reft, I gave the 

 goats, pigs, and feeds. I fhould have left thefe well-in- 

 tended prefents at Atooi, had we not been fo unexpe(5ledly 

 driven from it. 



While the people were engaged in filling four water-cafks, 

 from a fmall ftream occafioned by the late rain, I walked a 

 little way up the country, attended by the man above-men- 

 tioned, and followed by two others carrying the two pigs. ^ s 

 foon as we got upon a rifing ground, I flopped to look round 

 me ; and obferved a woman, on the oppofite fide of the valley 

 where I landed, calling to her countrymen who attended mc. 

 Upon this, the Chief began to mutter fomething which I fup- 

 pofed was a prayer; and the two men, who carried the pigs, 

 continued to walk round me all the time, making, at leaft, 



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