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which our people were fo paflionately fond of, that they al- »77S. 

 ways came to a good market. But we received moft bene- ■, ^-y-,'^ 

 fit from fuch of tlie natives as vifited us daily. Thefe, after 

 difpofing of all their little trifles, turned their attention to 

 fifliing; and we never failed to partake of what they 

 caught. We alfo got from thefe people a confiderable quan- 

 tity of very good animal oil, which they had refcrved in 

 bladders. In this traffic fome would attempt to cheat us, by 

 mixing water with the oil ; and, once or twice, they had 

 the addrefs to carry their impofition fo far, as to fill their 

 bladders with mere water, without a fingle drop of oil. It 

 was always better to bear with thefe tricks, than to make 

 them the foundation of a quarrel ; for our articles of traffic 

 confifted, for the moft part, of mere trifles; and yet we were 

 put to our fliifts to find a conftant fupply even of thefe. 

 Beads, and fuch other toys, of which I had ftill fome lefr, 

 were in little eftimation. Nothing would go down with our 

 vifiters but metal i and brafs had, by this time, fupplanted 

 iron ; being fo eagerly fought after, that before we left this 

 place, hardly a bit of it was left in the fliips, except what 

 belonged to our necclTary inftruments. Whole fuits of 

 clothes were ftripped oF every button ; bureaus of their fur- 

 niture ; and copper kettles, tin cannifters, candlefticks, and 

 the like, all went to wreck ; fo that our American friends 

 here got a greater medley and variety of things from us, 

 than any other nation whom we had vifited in the courfe of 

 the voyage. 



After a fortnight's bad weather, the 19th proving a fair sund.y ,9. 

 day, we availed ourfelves of it, to get up the top-mafts and 

 yards, and to fix up the rigging. And, having now finiffied 

 moft of our heavy work, I fet out the next morning to take Monday 20. 

 a view of the Sound. I firft went to the Weft point, where 



7 I found- 



