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we called Hicks's Bay, after our first lieutenant. On the 31st we sailed 

 along tlie 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 then- 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 supposed — talked very much. They kept 

 paddling about us, calling out to us that, if we would go on shore, they 

 would beat us with then- patta-pattoos, and, being apjprehensive 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 then- 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 Eunaway. 



" 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 anythuig they could lay thek 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 oui- 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, 

 which we named Mount Edgecombe ; and a small bay, which we called 

 Lowland Bay ; and the two points thereof, from their situation, Highland 



