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we called Hicks’s Bay, after our first lieutenant. On the 81st we sailed 
along the coast and had light breezes and pleasant weather. In the forenoon 
seven canoes came off to us in a hostile manner, brandishing their lances 
and waving their paddles. One of these canoes was very large and had 
between fifty and sixty people in her; some of them gave us an heivo; and 
one of them—a priest, as we di bed very much. They kept 
paddling about us, calling out to us that, if we would go on shore, they 
would beat us with their patta-pattoos, and, being apprehensive that if we 
suffered them to approach nearer to us we might be obliged to offer violence 
to them, the captain ordered a gun, loaded with grape-shot, to be fired 
over their heads, the report of which terrified them so much that they 
paddled away till they had got, as they supposed, out of our reach, and then 
they stopped and held a consultation, after which they seemed as if they 
intended to return, and we fired another gun loaded with ball, and then 
they made as fast as possible to the shore. Being at this time off a cape, 
we named it, from the hasty retreat of the natives, Cape Runaway. 
‘“ On the 1st of November a great number of canoes came off us, one 
of which had part of a human skull to bale out the water with. We 
prevailed on some of the natives to come alongside of the ship, and traded 
with them for cloth, crayfish, and mussels. They gave us several heivos, 
but some of them seemed to threaten us. A breeze springing up we left 
them, and a little further on the coast another squadron of fisher boats 
came off to us, with whom also we had some traffic. These, as well as the 
rest, were very ready to snatch anything they could lay their hands on; 
and, watching an opportunity, they stole a pair of sheets that were tied 
by a line at the ship’s stern, and were going off with them, upon which we 
fired several muskets, but they did not much regard them. We then fired 
some grape-shot amongst them, and they paddled away something faster, 
till they imagined themselves out of our reach, and then they held up their 
paddles and seemed to defy us. We fired another gun loaded with round 
and grape-shot, which passed between two canoes and narrowly missed 
them, on which they hesitated no longer, but repaired immediately to the 
shore. Toward night we were near a small island, called by the natives 
Mowtohora, about three leagues from the land. In going between this and 
the mainland, a canoe came off from the island. This canoe was double, 
and differed in other respects from those we had seen before. After we had 
_ talked with the people which came in it a considerable time, they gave ‘us 
several heivos, then looked at us very steadfastly, and, having threatened 
us, stood off towards the mainland. Opposite to this is a high-peaked hill, 
ok. we named Mount Edgecombe; and a small bay, which we called 
Lowland Bay; and the two points thereof, from their situation, Highland 
