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reach. To convince them, therefore of the contrary, I ordered a 

 gun to be fired at them with round shot ; the ball just grazing 

 the water rose again and fell into the middle of them, upon 

 which they dispersed with great hurry and confusion, and we 

 saw no more of them. After this we watered without any 

 further molestation, but all the while our boats were on shore 

 we had the precaution to keep firing the ship's guns into the 

 wood on both sides of them, and the cutter — which lay close to 

 the beach, as she did before — kept up a constant fire of small 

 arms in platoons at the same time. As we saw none of the 

 natives during all this firing, we should have thought that none 

 of them had ventured back into the wood, if our people had not 

 reported that they heard groans from several parts of it, like 

 those of dying men. 



" The master was dying of the wounds he received in his 

 quarrel with the Indians ; the lieutenant also was very ill ; the 

 gunner and thirty of my men incapable of duty, among whom 

 were seven of the most vigorous and healthy that had been 

 wounded with the master, and three of them mortally, and there 

 was no hope of obtaining such refreshments as we most needed 

 in this place. These were discouraging circumstances, and not 

 only put an end to my hopes of prosecuting the voyage farther 

 to the southward but greatly dispirited the people. Except 

 myself, the master, and the lieutenant, there was nobody on board 

 capable of navigating the ship home ; the master was known to 

 be a dying man, and the recovery of myself and the lieutenant 

 was very doubtful. Not being in a condition to risk the loss of 

 any more of the few men who were capable of doing duty, I 

 weighed anchor at daybreak on Monday the l7th, and stood 

 along the shore for that part of the island to which I had sent 

 the cutter. To the island I had given the name of Egmont 

 Island, in honor of the Earl ; it certainly is the same to which 

 the Spaniards have given the name of Santa Cruz, as appears by 

 the accounts which the writers have given of it, and I called the 

 place in which we had lain Swallow Bay. When we had pro- 

 ceeded about three leagues from the harbour we opened the bay 



