128 Transactions.— Miscellaneous. 
“ On the 4th, early in the morning, we were visited by several canoes ; 
the people in them, about 135 in number, had a few arms, but seemed 
unresolved what to do. At last they traded with us, exchanging the few 
trifles they had brought for cloth. They were very sly, and attempted to 
cheat us. We fired several muskets at them, and wounded two of them; 
the rest, however, did not seem to be alarmed till the captain shot through 
one of the canoes, which struck them with a panic, and on firing a great 
gun they made off to land. 
“On the 9th, a great number of the natives came in canoes about the 
ship and brought us a large quantity of fish, mostly of the mackerel kind, 
with a few John Dories, and we pickled down several casks full of them. 
Some of these canoes came from another part of the country, which were 
larger and of a better sort than the rest; the people in them, too, had a 
better appearance; among whom were some of superior rank, furnished 
with good garments, dressed up with feathers on their heads, and had 
various things of value amongst them which they readily exchanged for 
Otaheite cloth. In one of the canoes there was a very handsome young 
man of whom I bought some things; he seemed by the variety of his 
garments, which he sold one after another till he had but one left, to be a 
person of distinction among them; his last. garment was an upper one, 
made of black and white dogskin, which one of the lieutenants would have 
purchased, and offered him a large piece of cloth for it, which he swung 
down the stern by a rope into the canoe; but as soon as the young man 
had taken it, his companions paddled away as fast as possible, shouting and 
brandishing their weapons as if they had made a great prize, and, being 
ignorant of the power of our weapons, thought to have carried it off 
securely; but a musket was fired at them from the stern of the ship; the 
young man fell down immediately, and, it is probable, was mortally 
wounded, as we did not see him rise again. What a severe punishment of 
a crime committed, perhaps, ignorantly! The name of this unfortunate 
man, we afterwards learned, was Te Riunui. 
‘The wind having been against us for several days, and as we could get 
no farther with our heavy ship, on the 29th in the morning, having weathered 
-a long point of land, which we named Cape Brett, we bore away to leeward, 
got into a very large harbour where we were land-locked, and had several 
“pretty coves on every side of us. We passed asmallisland which we named 
Piercy Island, and soon after cast anchor. Many canoes came off to us, and 
the people in them, according to custom, behaved somewhat unruly. While 
I saluted one of them, in their manner, he picked my pocket. Some of our 
people fired upon them, but they did not seem to regard it much. One of 
our boats went on shore, and then they set off all at once and attempted to 
