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A VOYAGE TO 



»779< fray was occafioncd by the latter's having given the man a 

 _.l y -0 ilight prick with his bayonet, in order to make him keep 

 without the line. 



I now perceived, that our fituation required great circum- 

 fpccYton and management ; and accordingly gave the ftrictcft 

 orders, that no one fhould fire, nor have rccourfe to any 

 other act of violence, without pofitive commands. As foon 

 as I had given thefe directions, I was called to the aflidance 

 of the watering party, where I found the natives equally in- 

 clined to mifchief. They had demanded from our people a 

 large hatchet for every cafk of water ; and this not being 

 complied with, they would not fufFer the failors to roll them 

 down to the boats. 



I had no fooncr joined them, than one of the natives ad- 

 vanced up to me, with great infolence, and made the fame 

 claim. I told him, that, as a friend, I was very willing to 

 prefent him with a hatchet, but that I fhould certainly carry 

 off the water, without paying any thing for it ; and I im- 

 mediately ordered the pinnace men to proceed in their 

 bufinefs, and called three marines from the traders to pro- 

 tect them. 



Though this fliew of fpirit fuccccdcd fo far as to make 

 the natives defirt from any open attempt to interrupt us, thev 

 Hill continued to behave in the moll tealing and provoking 

 manner. Whilft fome of them, under pretence of a/lifting 

 the men in rolling down the cafks, turned them out of 

 their courfe, and gave them a wrong direction; others we 

 dealing the hats from off the failors heads, pulling them 

 backward by their clothes, or tripping up their heels ; the 

 whole crowd, all this time, (homing and laughing, with a 

 ftrange mixture of childiflincfs and malice. They afterward 



found 



