124 CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 



piece of cloth or garment of their own manufacturing, and 

 some other trifles. 



The 9th, they paid the natives another visit. They found 

 them at their habitations all dressed and dressing in their 

 very best, with their hair combed and oiled, tied upon the 

 crowns of their heads, and stuck with white feathers. Some 

 wore a fillet of feathers round their heads ; and all of them 

 had bunches of white feathers stuck in their ears. Captain 

 Cook presented the chief with a cloak he had got made for 

 him, with which he seemed so well pleased that he took 

 his patoo from his girdle and gave it in return. 



On the 12th, several of the natives came and sat down on 

 the shore, abreast of the ship. The captain now caused the 

 bagpipes and fife to play, and the drum to beat. The two 

 first they did not regard, but the latter excited some little 

 attention ; nothing, however, could induce them to come on 

 board. But they entered with great familiarity into con- 

 versation (little understood) with such of the officers and 

 seamen as went to them, paying greater regard to some than 

 to others. 



After several days' rain, the weather again became clear, 

 when the Captain set out with two boats to survey the N. W. 

 side of the bay, accompanied by the two Mr. Forsters, and 

 several of the officers, whom he detached in one boat to 

 a cove, where they intended to lodge the night, while he 

 proceeded in the other, examining the harbours and isles 

 which lay in his way. In the doing of this he picked up 

 about a score of wild fowl, and caught fish sufficient to serve 

 the whole party ; and reaching the place of rendezvous a 

 little before dark, after a hearty repast on what the day had 

 produced, they lay down to rest. 



At daylight they prepared for duck shooting, in which 

 they were very successful, from which circumstance this was 

 called Duck Cove. About a mile from hence, across an 

 isthmus, they found an immense number of wood-hens. 

 After breakfast they set out to return to the ship, which 

 they reached by seven o'clock in the evening, with about 

 seven dozen of wild fowl, and two se"als. 



On the 17th, two of the natives, the chief and his daughter 

 ventured on board ; Captain Cook took them both down 

 into the cabin, where they were to breakfast ; but they 

 would not taste any of the victuals. The chief pried into 

 every corner of the cabin, all parts of which he viewed with 

 some surprise ; but it was not possible to fix his attention to 

 any one thing a single moment. The works of art appeared 

 to him in the same light as those of nature, and were as 

 far removed beyond his comprehension. 



The chief before he came aboard presented the Captain 



