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aiked me for a few trifles to leave amongfl their friends ^ ^^^f ^• 

 before they fet off, which I readily gave, and alfo made ^^ — ^— — » 

 the king a prefent ; on which he took leave of me for the December. 

 lafl time, and after taking a very affedling one of his coun- °° ^' *^' 

 trymen, particularly of Paapaaa, he quitted the fhipand went 

 on fliore ; the other canoes remained along-fide to difpofe 

 of their cargoes, and we procured a fupply of good hogs, 

 which enabled me to fet the falters to work again. In the 

 afternoon the rigging was fet up, the fails bent, and every 

 thing ready for fea. 



In the night the Queen Charlotte parted her bower- 

 cable and brought up with the other bower. I fent a 

 boat the next morning to aflift them in creeping for the Tuefdayig. 

 end of their cable, which was fortunately hooked in a 

 fhort time, and the anchor was recovered before noon. On 

 examining the cable, fome were of opinion that it had 

 been cut by the natives, and it certainly bore that appear- 

 ance a good deal. 



At four o'clock we began to unmoor, as I popofed 

 getting to fea with the breeze that ufually blows out of 

 the bay in the night, but in a fhort time we found the 

 flream-cable gone about three fathoms from the haufe ; as 

 we lay in ten fathoms water, this part could nev-er have 

 been at the ground, and we never had rode the leaft ftrain 

 by it ; fo that I was convinced it muft have been cut by 

 the Indians. We had a buoy on the anchor ; therefore 

 I fent the long-boat to weigh it, and we begun to heave 

 a-head on the bed bower : juft as we had got a ftay-peak 

 the beft bower alfo parted four fathoms from the anchor ; 



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