JUNE, 



many returned ; and, presently after, the other mus- 

 quet was brought, and laid at my feet. That moment 

 I ordered the canoes to be restored, to show them on 

 what account they were detained. The other things 

 we had lost being of less value, I was the more in- 

 different about them. By this time the launch was 

 ashore for another turn of water, and we were per- 

 mitted to fill the casks without any one daring to come 

 near us ; except one man, who had befriended us 

 during the whole affair, and seemed to disapprove of 

 the conduct of his countrymen. 



On my returning from the pond to the cove, I 

 found a good many people collected together, from 

 whom we understood that the man I had fired at was 

 dead. This story 1 treated as improbable, and ad- 

 dressed a man, who seemed of some consequence, 

 for the restitution of a cooper's adze we had lost in 

 the morning. He immediately sent away two men, 

 as I thought, for it ; but I soon found that we had 

 greatly mistaken each other ; for, instead of the adze, 

 they brought the wounded man, stretched out on a 

 board, and laid him down by me, to all appearance dead. 

 I was much moved at the sight ; but soon saw my 

 mistake, and that he was only wounded in the hand 

 and thigh. I therefore desired he might be carried 

 out of the sun, and sent for the surgeon to dress his 

 wounds. In the mean time, I addressed several people 

 for the adze j for as I had now nothing else to do, I 

 determined to have it. The one I applied the most to, 

 was an elderly woman, who had always a great deal 

 to say to me, from my first landing ; but, on this oc- 

 casion, she gave her tongue full scope. I understood 

 but little of her eloquence ; and all I could gather 

 from her arguments was, that it was mean in me to 

 insist on the return of so trifling a thing. But when 

 she found I w T as determined, she and three or four 

 more women went away ; and soon after the adze 

 was brought me, but I saw hex* no more. This I was 

 sorry for, as I wanted to make her a present, in re- 



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