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search, carefully hid in the bushes. As we had 

 not hitherto lost any thing, I was convinced that 

 this vice was foreign to the islanders j the more 

 disagreeable was my surprise on this occasion. I 

 expressed my dissatisfaction to those present, and 

 ordered my people to be more careful for the 

 future, that our friends might not be led into 

 temptation. 



On the 23d, in the forenoon, we were visited by 

 Rarick and Langin, with a numerous train ; they 

 brought us cocoa-nuts, and were received with as 

 much friendship as usual. They walked about quite 

 unconstrained, but the cannons still attracted their 

 attention, and they were of opinion that they 

 served us in the place of their shell-horns, without 

 thinking what a dreadful engine of death they had 

 before them. One of Langin*s attendants, having 

 stolen a knife in the cabin, was obliged to return it: 

 he was very much ashamed; Langin was very angry, 

 and left us to go to his island, to which he invited 

 us. In the afternoon we went on shore to finish 

 the garden, and were struck at first sight by the 

 devastation which the rats had made : even our 

 presence did not seem to disturb them ; some were 

 rooting out the seeds, and others run away with 

 their booty. 1 made Lagediack comprehend that 

 the garden would be entirely destroyed if they did 

 not place sentinels j and the thieves were soon 

 driven out with stones and sticks. We repaired 

 the damage that had been done, and planted the 



