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ments of war with us. We made them a present of 

 two circular tin plates, with Mr. Kennedy's initials 

 stamped upon them, and chains to hang- them 

 round the neck ; we also g'ave them a few fish-hooks, 

 and they accepted our presents with great demon- 

 strations of pleasure. We made sig-ns for them to 

 sit down about SOO yards from the spot where the 

 horses and sheep were being" landed, and marking- a 

 line upon the sand we made them understand that 

 they were not to cross it to approach us. One of 

 our party was placed among-st them to enforce this 

 reg-ulation, which he did with little difficulty, al- 

 though they expressed great curiosity as to various 

 articles brought on shore from the ship. 



These natives appeared to be very fine strong 

 men, varying much in intelligence and disposition. 

 I entered into such conversation with them as we 

 were enabled to hold, and I soon found that while 

 some were eagerly anxious to learn the names of 

 different articles and their uses, others were per- 

 fectly indifferent about them. 



We pitched our tents about two hundred yards 

 from the beach, forming* a square, with the sheep- 

 fold in the centre. Mr. Kennedy came on shore in 

 the morning to superintend the arrangements, and 

 after giving the necessary directions and instruc- 

 tions, returned to the ship. The party left ashore 

 in charge consisted of myself. Wall, Dunn, Car- 

 penter, and Douglas. Our provisions were supplied 

 from the ship, in order that no time might be lost in 



