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our mufquetry and cannon, which naturally made the Indians 

 fuppofe we were irrefiftible. After they had recovered their 

 fright however, and found that we had done them no harm, they 

 vifited us again, and probably to examine more nearly what had 

 occasioned the tremendous noife which they had never heard 

 before. As we thus took pofTeffion on the day when holy mother 

 church celebrates the feflival of the moll: holy Trinity, we named 

 the port accordingly 0 . 



The following days were taken up in procuring wood and 

 water, whilfr. the lchooner was careened. We likewife cut fome 

 malts for her. 



We could not but particularly attend to all the actions of the 

 Indians, their manner of living, habitations, garments, food, 

 government, laws, language, and arms, as. alfo their f hunting 

 and filheries. The diftruft indeed which we naturally entertained 

 of thefe barbarians, made us endeavour to get as great an infight 

 into all thefe as poffible, yet we never obferved any thing con- 

 trary to the moft perfect friendihip and confidence which they 

 feemed to repofe in us. I may add, that their intercourfe with, 

 us was not only kind, but affectionate. 



There houfes were fquare, and built with large beams, the 

 roofs being no higher than the furface of the ground, for the 



° There is certainly fome ufe to geographers in this cuftom of the 

 Spaniards naming places from the Saint's day in which they take pof- 

 feffion, or make the diicovery,. as. it points out to pofterity the time of the 

 year when the event happened. 



p Sus cazas, which like the French word chajfc and Italian cauiay. 

 comprehends alfo fowling. In Sir Afriton Lever's moft capital mufeum 

 may be feen what contrivances are ufed by the Indians of St. George's, 

 Sound N. Lat. 50. on this fame coaft and for thefe purpofes. There is 

 alfo in the lame noble repofitory fome birdlime from the newly difcovered 

 Sandwich iilands, 



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