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purchasing ‘four or six bread-fruits and a like number of 
cocoanuts. My tents were got up before night, and I slept 
ashore in them for the first time. The lines were guarded 
by many sentries, but no Indian attempted to come near 
them during the whole night. 
19th. This morning Lycurgus and his wife came to see 
us and brought with them all their household furniture, and 
even houses to be erected in our neighbourhood, a circum- 
stance which gave me great pleasure, as I had spared no 
pains to gain the friendship of this man, who seemed more 
sensible than any of his fellow-chiefs we have seen. His 
behaviour in this instance makes us sure of having gained 
his confidence at least. 
Soon after his arrival he took me by the hand and led 
me out of the lines, signing that I should accompany him 
into the woods, which I did willingly, as I was desirous of 
knowing how near us he intended to settle. I followed 
him about a quarter of a mile, when we arrived at a small 
house, or rather the awning of a canoe set up on the shore, 
which seemed to be his temporary habitation. Here he 
unfolded a bundle of their cloths and clothed me in two 
garments, one of red cloth, the other of a very pretty matting, 
after which we returned to the tents. He ate pork and 
bread-fruit which was brought him in a basket, using salt- 
water instead of sauce, and then retired into my bed-chamber 
and slept about half an hour. 
About dinner-time Lycurgus’s wife brought a handsome 
young man of about twenty-two to the tents, whom they 
both seemed to acknowledge as their son; at night he and 
another chief, who had also visited us, went away to the 
westward, but Lycurgus and his wife went towards the 
place I was at in the morning, which makes us not doubt 
of their staying with us for the future. 
20th. Rained hard all this day, at intervals so much so 
that we could not stir at all: the people, however, went on 
briskly with the fortification in spite of weather. Lycurgus 
dined with us, he imitated our manners in every instance, 
already holding a knife and fork more handily than a French- 
