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ing made of the bark of a tree, or fome plant like hemp; wea- '778. 



pons, fuch as bows, arrows, and fpears; fifh-hooks, and inftru- ^ . — -^ 



ments of various kinds ; wooden vizors of many different 

 monftrous figures ; a fort of woollen fluff, or blanketing ; bags 

 filled with red ochre ; pieces of carved work ; beads ; and feve- 

 ral other little ornaments of thin brafs and iron, fhaped like a- 

 horfe-fhoe, which they hang at their nofes ; and feveral chif- 

 fels, or pieces of iron, fixed to handles. From their pofTefTing 

 which metals, wc could infer that they had either been 

 vifited before by fome civilized nation, or had conneclions 

 with tribes on their continent, who had communication 

 with them. But the moft extraordinary of all the articles 

 which they brought to the llxips for fale, were human 

 ficulls, and hands not yet quite flrippcd of the flcfli, which 

 they made our people plainly undcrfland they had eaten -, 

 and, indeed, fome of them had evident marks that they had 

 been upon the fire. We had but too much reafon to fufpetff, 

 from this circumftance, that the horrid pradice of feeding 

 on their enemies is as prevalent here, as we had found it 

 to be at New Zealand and other South Sea iflands. For 

 the various articles which they brought, they took in ex- 

 change knives, chifTels, pieces of iron and tin, nails, look- 

 ing-glafles, buttons, or any kind of metal. Glafs beads 

 they were not fond of; and cloth of every fort they re- 

 jedled. 



We employed the next day in hauling our fhips into the Tuefday^i. 

 cove, where they were moored head and flern, faftcning 

 our hawfers to the trees on fliore. On heaving up the an- 

 chor of the Refolution, we found, notwithdanding the great 

 depth of water in which ir was let go, that there were rocks 

 at the bottom, rhefe had done fome confiderable damage 

 to the cable ; and the hawfeis that were carried out, to 



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