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abundance in all the bays, and which they esteem to be 

 excellent food. 



At an early hour next day another canoe, with seven 

 natives, came alongside, and asked permission to come on 

 board ; but finding it could not be granted so early in the 

 day, they paddled off again, and we saw no more of them. 



In the afternoon we visited the shore, and very soon 

 fell in with the natives, who came on board on the day of 

 our arrival. They immediately commenced jumping up 

 and down, which is their mode of expressing friendship. 

 One of them, who had a pair of pantaloons given him, 

 had them tied round his neck, and another had the skirts 

 of his coat cut off; the reason he assigned for doing so 

 was that they were in his way. Their hut was constructed 

 after the manner of that we saw at New Island, and bore 

 quite a neat and comfortable appearance. The ground 

 was swept clean, and in the centre a large fire was burn- 

 ing, over which hung a string of fish. The other articles 

 which it contained were some shells, which were carefully 

 laid upon some clean leaves, and the blanket we had given 

 to the woman on the previous day. They seldom cook 

 their food much. The shell-fish are detached from their 

 shell by heat, and the fish are partly roasted in their skins 

 without being cleaned. It was evident that, notwithstand- 

 ing our kind treatment to these people, we had not gained 

 their confidence ; for, on seeing us approach the hut, the 

 woman fled with her child, nor could we prevail upon the 

 men to cause her to return. 



As this harbor was not put down on any of the charts 

 in our possession, we believed it to be a discovery, and 

 named it after our ship. 



On the 30th, we once more got under-way, and after a 

 further search of a few hours, we succeeded in finding Or- 



