2fX VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



to our boats* and, in a fliort time, they were 

 furrounded by a vaft concourfe. We were afto- 

 nifhed that the violence of the furf, and that of 

 the fea dafhing again ft the breakers, had not 

 prevented them from leaving the ifland. 



Another chief, who was diftinguifhed by the 

 fame ornaments as were worn by him I have be- 

 fore mentioned, was alfo diftinguilhed by the 

 blows which he dealt out with his ftick to fcveral 

 of thofe to whom he gave his orders. 



Thefe iflanders, who teftified the greateft joy 

 at the fight of our nails, and, above all, of our 

 hatchets, had fome difficulty in conceiving the 

 full value of our knives. At firl they required 

 that they mould be (hut before they accepted 

 them ; but their fears were very foon banifhed, 

 and they then received them as well open as 

 fhut. We got from thefe inhabitants a few darts 

 armed with a piece of volcanic ftone cut to a 

 point, and very fharp at the edges. They alfo 

 gave us fome combs with three teeth Handing 

 very wide apart, fome heavy bracelets cut out of 

 a large fhcll, and other bracelets formed of little 

 whelks ftrung on a cord, the ftrength of which 

 was equal to that of our bcil hemp. 



Thefe fava : juently repeated the word 



capellc, in afking Ur: our articles of traffic. It 

 appeared to us, that they gave this name to 



iron, 



