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instruct them in the management of the animals. 

 From the sow, a speedy increase was to be hoped. 

 Pleased as Rarick was with the present, he would 

 not venture near them when he heard their dread- 

 ful grunting on landing, and the women, who had 

 never been on board, and were acquainted with 

 them only from the accounts of the men, ran away 

 into the woods at the first sight of them. I made 

 an excursion through the island with my fowling- 

 piece, in the hope of shooting a land-bird, but did 

 not find a single one, except a very few wild 

 pigeons. Rarick and Lagediack accompanied me, 

 without suspecting my motive; and, to give them a 

 specimen of it, I showed them a sandpiper, about 

 fifty paces distant from us, on the shore, and shot 

 it ; but I immediately had reason to repent of my 

 want of thought, for both of them lay stretched 

 out at my feet, lamenting aloud, and concealing 

 their faces in the grass. After many assurances 

 that they should receive no harm, they rose, trem- 

 bling very much, and looking fearfully after my 

 piece, which I had put up against a tree. The 

 sight of the bleeding bird was not adapted to make 

 a joke of it; they remained fearful and suspicious, 

 and ran away, in a moment, when they thought 

 themselves unperceived. It cost me much pains 

 to regain their confidence, and I could never ven- 

 ture to show myself with my gun. ^ 



On the 28th of January, at seven o'clock in 

 the morning, I left the sliip, accompanied by all 



