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having met with a much larger supply of hogs, fowls, etc., 
than we have done, I can most readily account for that, as 
we have found by constant experience that these people 
may be frightened into anything. They have often described 
to us the terror which the Dolphin’s gun caused them, and 
when we ask how many people were killed, they number 
names upon their fingers, some ten, some twenty, some 
thirty, and then say worrow worrow, the same word as is 
used for a flock of birds or a shoal of fish. The Dolphin’s 
journals often serve to confirm this opinion. “When,” say 
they, “towards the latter end of our time provisions were 
scarce, a party of men were sent towards Eparre to get 
hogs, etc., an office which they had not the smallest diffi- 
culty in performing, for the people, as we went along the 
shore, drove out their hogs to meet us, and would not 
allow us to pay anything for them.” 
About a mile farther on we found houses fairly plentiful 
on each side of the river, the valley being all this way three 
or four hundred yards across. We were now shown a house 
which proved the last we saw; the master offered us cocoa- 
nuts, and we refreshed ourselves. Beyond this we went 
maybe six miles (it is difficult to guess distances when roads 
are bad as this was, for we were generally obliged to travel 
along the course of the river). We passed by several hollow 
places under stones where, we were told, that people who 
were benighted slept. At length we arrived at a place 
where the river was banked on each side with steep rocks ; 
and a cascade which fell from them made a pool so deep, 
that the Indians said we could not go beyond it—they never 
did. Their business lay below the rocks, on each side of the 
plains, above which grew great plenty of vae. The avenues 
to these were truly dreadful, the rocks were nearly perpen- 
dicular, one being nearly a hundred feet in height, with its 
face constantly wet and slippery from the water of number- 
less springs. Directly up the face of even this was a road, 
or rather a succession of long pieces of bark of Hibiscus 
tiliaceus, which served as a rope to take hold of and scramble 
up from ledge to ledge, though upon these very ledges none 
