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iliore, with the cooper to trim, and a fufficient number of '777- 



f -I J-"!! 1 nr- • . . February. 



iailors to lill them. Two men were appomted to brew \_— v-..^ 

 fpruce beer ; and the carpenter and his crew were ordered 

 to cut wood. A boat, with a party of men, under the di- 

 recflion of one of the mates, was fent to colle(5l grafs for our 

 cattle ; and the people that remained on board were em- 

 ployed in refitting the fliip, and arranging the provifions. 

 In this manner, we were all profitably bufied during our 

 flay. For the protection of the party on fhore, I appointed 

 a guard of ten marines, and ordered arms for all the work- 

 men ; and Mr. King, and two or three petty ofEcers, con- 

 flantly remained with them. A boat was never fent to any 

 confiderable diftance from the fhips without being armed, 

 and under the direc5lion of fuch officers as I could depend 

 upon, and who were well acquainted with the natives. 

 During my former vifics to this country, I had never taken 

 fome of thefe precautions ; nor were they, I firmly believe, 

 more nccefTary now than they had been formerly. But after 

 the tragical fate of the Adventure's boat's crew in this 

 found, and of Captain Marion du Frefne, and of fome of 

 his people, in the Bay of Iflands*, it was impofTiblc totally 

 to divell ourfelves of all apprehenfion of experiencing a 

 limilar calamity. 



If the natives entertained any fufpicion of our revenging 

 thefe ac^s of barbarity, they very foon laid it afide. For, 

 during the courfe of this day, a great number of families 

 came from dillerent parts of the coalt, and took up their re- 

 fidence clofe to us ; fo that there was not a fpot in the cove 

 where a hut could be put up, that Vv^as not occupied by 

 them, except the place where we had fixed our little en- 



* In 1772. 



Vol. I. R campment. 



