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in a manner that admitted of no doubt, that soon 

 after we were gone she arrived, that she staid be- 

 tween ten and twenty days, and had been gone ten 

 months. They likewise asserted, that neither she 

 nor any other ship had been stranded on the coast, 

 as had been reported. This assertion, and the man- 

 ner in which they related the coming and going of 

 the Adventure, made me easy about her ; but did 

 not wholly set aside our suspicions of a disaster hav- 

 ing happened to some other strangers. Besides 

 what has been already related, we had been told 

 that a ship had lately been here, and was gone to a 

 place called Terato, which is on the north side of the 

 Strait. Whether this story related to the former or 

 no, I cannot say. Whenever I questioned the natives 

 about it, they always denied all knowledge of it ; and 

 for some time past had avoided mentioning it. It 

 was but a few days before, that one man received a 

 box on the ear for naming it to some of our people. 



After breakfast, I took a number of hands over to 

 Long-Island, in order to catch the sow, to put her 

 to the boar, and remove her to some other place ; 

 but we returned without seeing her. Some of the 

 natives had been there not long before us, as their 

 fires were yet burning ; and they had undoubtedly 

 taken her away. Pedero dined with us, ate of every 

 thing at table, and drank more wine than any one 

 of us, without being in the least affected by it. 



The 7th, fresh gales at N.E. with continual rain. 



The 8th, fore-part rain, remainder fair weather. 

 We put two pigs, a boar and a sow, on shore, in the 

 cove next without Cannibal Cove ; so that it is hardly 

 possible all the methods I have taken to stock this 

 country with these animals should fail. We had also 

 reason to believe that some of the cocks and hens 

 which I left here still existed, although we had not 

 seen any of them ; for an hen's egg was, some days 

 before, found in the woods almost new laid. 



On the 9th, wind westerly or N.W. squally, with 



