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I778. enter their houfes, folk">wing me wherever I went ; and 



' /— ^ feveral times, by expreflivc figns, marking his impatience 



that I fliould be gone. 1 attcilipted in vain to footh him by 

 prefcnts; but though he did not refufe them, they did not 

 aher his behaviour. Some of the young women, better 

 pleafcd with us than was their inhofpitable Chief, drelled 

 ihemfelvcs expeditioufly in their beft apparel, and, aflem- 

 bhng in a body, welcomed us to their village, by joining 

 in a fong, which was far from harfh or difagreeable. 



The day being now far fpent, I proceeded for the (hips, 

 round the North end of the large ifland ; meeting, in my 

 way, with feveral canoes laden with fardines, which had 

 been juft caught, fomewhere in the Eafl corner of the Sound. 

 ^Vhen 1 got on board, I was informed, that, while I was ab- 

 fent, the fhips had been vifited by fome flrangcrs, in two or 

 three large canoes, who, by figns, made our people underfland 

 that they had come from the South Ealt, beyond the bay. 

 They brought feveral flcins, garments, and other articles, 

 which they bartered. But what was moil fingular, twofdver 

 table-fpoons were purchafed from them, which, from their 

 pccidiar lliape, we fuppofed to be of Spanifli manufacflure. 

 One of thefe ftrangeis wore them round his neck, by way 

 of ornament. Thefe vifiicrs alfo appeared to be more plenti- 

 fully fupplicd with iron than the inhabitants of the Sound. 



The mizen-maft being finifhcd, it was got in, and rigged. 

 Tuefdayzi. on the 2 1 ft ; and the carpenters were let to work to make a 

 new fore-top-maft, to replace the one that had been carried 

 away fome time before. 

 Wcd.ur. 22. Next morning, about eight o'clock, v/c were vifited by a 

 number of ftrangers, in twelve or fourteen canoes. They 

 came into the cove from the Southward ; and as foon 

 as they had turned the point of it, they flopped, and lay 



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