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on board, made fome prefents to the different 

 chiefs who were collected round him. He re- 

 quired from them that they fhould deliver up 

 to him th.e aflaflin, and reftore the mufket that 

 he had ftolcn, as alfo a fabre which had been 

 purloined the day before from one of our gun 

 ners ; and he apprized them, that on that 

 condition alone he would pcrm.it any traffic 

 to be renewed. 



All the inhabitants retired directly our launch 

 quitted the beach ; but no fooner had fhe 

 reached the fliip, than fevcral of them vifited 

 the place we had juft abandoned, and very care- 

 fully fearched if any of our property had been 

 left behind. We remarked one who had the 

 dexterity to extract the nail which had ferved 

 to fufpcnd to a poft one of our time-keepers. 



FcenoH came on board in the afternoon, and 

 made the Admiral a prefent of fome bread- 

 fruii_, fome yam,3, a hog, and fomie plantains : 

 he received, in return, a hand-faw, a hatcher, 

 and fevcral joiners' chifcls; but we obferved 

 that he gave a very decided preference to the 

 hatchet over all the other inftruments. Afcer 

 having paid the gre:itc{l attention to the account 

 we gave him of the ailault which had been 

 committed by one of the inhabitants on our 

 fcntry, he promifcd to have the mull<et reftored 

 to us the next day; and he told us that he would 



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