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his teeth the ligaments and cartilages which 

 yet remained : I tiien gave it to his country- 

 man, wiio flill found fomething to gnaw. 



The different ligns which were awkwardly 

 made to them to obtain a confefTion that they 

 pite their fellow-creatures^ were the caufe of a 

 great mifunderftanding. Immediately ah ex- 

 treme confternation was dcpie'ted in all their 

 features; they no doubt conceived that we alfo 

 were anthropophagi, and, fuppofing that their laft 

 hour was come, they fell a crying. We were not 

 able to remove their apprehenlions completely, 

 jiotwithflanding we did every thing in our 

 power to difpel this injurious idea. One of 

 them fuddenly got out at a port, and clung to 

 the fore chains, ready to drop into the water; 

 the other jumped overboard, and fwam to one 

 of the boats that was lying the fartheft aftern : 

 however, they foon recovered from their fright, 

 and came again into the fliip. 



The rivulet, from v>'hich Captain Cook had 

 procured his v.atcr at this place, was dry at tlie 

 feafon of the year when we were there : we 

 found however, to the fouth-eaft of our fhip, a 

 watering-place at the dillance of about three 

 hundred yards from the fea-lhore. Its water 

 Vv'as very pure, but it was not eafy to be 

 got ; and the refervoir from which it was taken 

 furniihed only as much as to fill once a day the 



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