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Handing that was not hcnccforthto be interrupt- 

 ed between thefe favages and us. Immediately 

 four other natives came and fat down in the 

 midfl of us with as much confidence as their 

 chief, behind whom they placed themfelves ; 

 but he appeared very much enraged at feveral 

 who came afterwards to reft under the (hade of 

 the neighbouring trees, calling them robbers 

 (kayas) feveral times. 



We all got into the boat at four o'clock in 

 the afternoon, and were fleering for our fhip, 

 when we faw runi>ing towards us, along the 

 beach, a party of favages loaded with different 

 forts of fruit, of which they wiflied to m.ake 

 us a prcfent ; they repeatedly leaped into the 

 Mater to bring them to us, but we were carried 

 away to the weftward by a very rapid current, 

 and could not Hop to receive thefe marks of 

 reconciliation. 



Next day, the 2Vl\\, I landed clofe by our 

 watering-place, at ihe moment when the Ad- 

 miral came thither. The guard \vas flronger 

 than it had been before, in order to keep thefe 

 illnnders more inav\c. It was to be apprehend- 

 ed, after what had palled between them and us 

 on the preceding day, rliat knowing perhaps the 

 effects of fome poiibn, they m.ight infed; with 

 ir tlic water with which we were going to fill 

 o'jr cafKS ; it was therefore thought proper, 



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