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^78. beration and indilTerence as they had given up the boat ; 

 and they were obferved defcribing to thofe who had not 

 been on board, how much longer the knives of the fliip's 

 crew were than their own. It was at this time, that my boat 

 was on the founding duty ; which they muft have feen ; for 

 they proceeded directly for her, after their difappointment 

 at the Difcovery. I have not the leafl doubt, that their vifit- 

 ing us fo very early in the morning was with a view to 

 plunder ; on a fuppofition, that they fliould find every body 

 afleep. 



May we not, from thefe circumftances, reafonably infer, 

 that thefe people are unacquainted with fire-arms. For 

 certainly, if they had known any thing of their efieifl, they 

 never would have dared to attempt taking a boat from 

 under a fliip's guns, in the face of above a hundred men ; 

 for mod of my people were looking at them, at the very in- 

 flant they made the attempt. However, after all thefe tricks, 

 we had the good fortune to leave them as ignorant, in this 

 refpecSt, as we found them. For they neither heard nor faw 

 a mufquet fired, unlcfs at birds. 



Jufl: as we were going to weigh the anchor, to proceed 

 farther up the bay, it began to blow and to rain as hard as 

 before ; fo that we were obliged to bear away the cable 

 again, and lay faft. Toward the evening, finding that the 

 gale did not moderate, and that it might be fome time be- 

 fore an opportunity offered to get higher up, 1 came to a re- 

 folution to heel the fhip where we were ; and, with this 

 view, moored her with a kedge-anchor and hawfer. In 

 heaving the anchor out of the boat, one of the- feamen, 

 cither through ignorance or carclefihefs, or both, w:is car- 

 ried over board by the buoy-rope, and followed the anchor 



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