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While we were unmooring and getting under fail, To- 1777- 

 matongeauooranuc, Matahouah, and many more of the ^ '^"*'^^* 

 natives, came to take their leave of us, or rather to obtain, 

 if they could, fome additional prefents from us before we 

 left them. Thefe two Chiefs became fuitors to me for fome 

 goats and hogs. Accordingly, I gave to Matahouah two 

 goats, a male and female with kid ; and to Tomaton- 

 geauooranuc two pigs, a boar and a fow. They made me 

 a promife not to kill them ; though I muft own I put no 

 great faith in this. The animals which Captain Furneaux 

 fent on fliore here, and which foon after fell into the hands 

 of the natives, I was now told were all dead ; but I could get 

 no intelligence about the fate of thofe I had left in Weft Bay, 

 and in Cannibal Cove, when I was here in the courfe of my 

 laft Voyage. However, all the natives, whom I converfed with 

 agreed, that poultry are now to be met with wild in the 

 woods behind Ship Cove ; and I was afterward informed, 

 by the two youths who went away with us, that Tiratou, a 

 popular Chief amongft them, had a great many cocks and 

 hens in his feparate pofleffion, and one of the fows. 



On my prefent arrival at this place, I fully intended to have 

 left not only goats and hogs, but flieep, and a young bull, 

 with two heifers, if I could have found either a Chief power- 

 ful enough to protecft and keep them, or a place where 

 there might be a probability of their being concealed from, 

 thofe who would ignorantly attempt to deftroy them. But 

 neither the one nor the other prefented itfelf to me. Tira- 

 tou was now abfent ; and Tringoboohee, whom I had met 

 with during my lad Voyage *, and who fcemed to be a,per- 

 fon of much confequence at that time, had been killed five 



* Sec Cook's Voya2,e, Vol, ii. p. 157. 



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