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possible. We gave him a musket ball, and with a little 
talking he seemed to be fully sensible of the escape he 
had had. 
In the evening we went ashore on another island where 
were many more people, who lived in the same peaceable 
style, and had very large plantations of sweet potatoes, yams, 
etc., about their village. They received us much as our 
friends in the morning had done, and, like them, showed much 
satisfaction at the little presents of necklaces, etc., which 
were given to them. 
4th. We went ashore at a large Indian fort or heppah. 
A great number of people immediately crowded about us, 
and sold almost a boat-load of fish in a very short time. 
They then showed us their plantations, which were very 
large, of yams, cocos, and sweet potatoes: and after 
having a little laugh at our seine, a common king’s seine, 
showed us one of theirs, which was five fathoms deep. Its 
length we could only guess, as it was not stretched out, 
but it could not from its bulk be less than four or five 
hundred fathoms. Fishing seems to be the chief business 
of this part of the country. About all their towns are 
abundance of nets laid upon small heaps like haycocks, and 
thatched over, and almost every house you go into has nets 
in process of making. 
After this they showed us a great rarity, six plants of 
what they called aouta, from whence they make cloth like 
that of Otahite. The plant proved exactly the same, as 
the name is the same, Morus papyrifera, Linn. (the Paper 
Mulberry). The same plant is used by the Chinese to 
make paper. Whether the climate does not well agree with 
it Ido not know, but they seemed to value it very much; 
that it was very scarce among them I am inclined to be- 
lieve, as we have not yet seen among them pieces large 
enough for any use, but only bits sticking into the holes of 
their ears. 
9th. Many canoes came off, and Tupia inquired about 
the country: they told him that at the distance of three 
days’ rowing in their canoes, at a place called Moore- 
