J46 AVOYAGETOTHE 



^ yjj-^ ^- As we run along with a gentle breeze within mufquet- 

 »— — - — ' fhot of the fhore, the natives of both fexes were aflembled 

 No7ember. on the bcach in great numbers, waving pieces of their 

 Friday 17. ^pj-^g cloth as a token of peace and friendfhip. Ex- 

 pecting to find good fhelter in a bay fituated on the Weft 

 fide of the ifiand, and near a diftrid: called by the natives 

 Toeyayaa, at eight o'clock I fent the whale-boat to 

 found, and look for a harbour. In the mean time, we 

 ftood off and on under an eafy fail, which gave the na- 

 tives an opportunity of bringing us the difi^erent produce 

 of their ifiand, which they prefently did in great abun- 

 dance ; fuch as hogs, plantains, bread-fruit, taro, cocoa 

 nuts, fowls, geefe of a wild fpecies, and great quantities 

 of excellent fait : for thefe articles we bartered with nails, 

 towes, and trinkets of different kinds; and fo brifk a ti-ade 

 went forward, that in the courfe of four hours we pur- 

 chafed large hogs fufiicient, when falted, to fill feven tierces, 

 befides vaft numbers of a fmaller fort for daily confump- 

 tion. Near two tons of vegetables, fuch as taro and 

 bread-fruit, were alfo procured ; and fo amply did the na- 

 tives fupply us with thofe very ufeful articles, that we 

 were obliged to turn vaft quantities away for want of room 

 to put them in. Indeed, it would not have been proper 

 to purchafe more of thofe kinds of vegetables than what 

 would be fufiicient for fix or feven days confumption ; for 

 after that time they begin to decay very faft. We alfo got 

 about one ton and a half of fine fait, and I immediately fe£ 

 twenty hands to kill and fait pork. 



The Indians during the whole day traded very fairly j 

 but fome of the fpediators, of whom we had great num- 

 bers of both fexes,. fliewed their ufual inclination for 



thieving ; 



