248 NATIVES SLEEP ON BOARD. 



Seewai shook his head, drew his finger across 

 his throat, and said " Dowdee no good ! arress, 

 arress!* sarreg!" On shewing him a large axe, 

 however, and offering him this, and plenty of 

 small ones, and assuring him that we would take 

 care of him with our "ow sarregs," he at length 

 professed to be willing to go. He must, however, 

 first get a stock of ketai and boonarree (yams and 

 cocoa-nuts), to which we assented. Soon after 

 dark they said they were cold and wished to go to 

 sleep, so we made them up a comfortable bed of 

 sails in the steerage. Between nine and ten o'clock, 

 catching sight of a native pipe hanging up in one of 

 the cabins, nothing would do but they must have a 

 smoke ; so we took them on deck, and after swallow- 

 ing a mouthful or tw T o, and drinking copiously of 

 water after it, they remained quiet till morning. 



May 25. — At daybreak this morning Seewai and 

 Keouck became quite clamorous to go home, saying, 

 " coskeer ee-ee, piccaninny ee-ee I" or " their wives 

 and children would be crying for them.' , As our 

 only light boat, the first gig, was ashore, where 

 Captain Blackwood and Lieut. Shad well had been 

 all night making astronomical observations, we 

 could not land them before seven o'clock, when I 

 took them round in the first gig to Moggor. In 

 passing Keriam, they observed the same precautions 



* " Arress" means war, or strife, or fighting. " Sarreg" 

 means either a bow, or to shoot with a bow. They also apply 

 the same name to our guns and pistols. 



