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the other, these people might have successively dispatched 

 every one of us. If they had killed me, in the first in- 

 stance, this consequence would certainly have followed, 

 and not one of us would have returned home to tell the 

 horrid fate of his companions. 



After having stated the danger I had encountered, I 

 told my people that I was determined to make these na- 

 tives feel the impropriety of their conduct towards us, 

 and compel them to return my hat and cloak which they 

 had taken in the scuffle, as well as the articles previously 

 purloined from us ; for most of the men who were in the 

 three canoes that we first saw, were now in the village. I 

 therefore told my men to prime their pieces afresh, and 

 prepare themselves for active use of them, if the occasion 

 should require it. 



We now drew up before the house, and made signs for 

 some one to come down to us. At length our young chief 

 appeared, and told us that the men belonging to the ca- 

 noes had not only informed his friends, that we had treat- 

 ed him very ill, but that we had killed four of their compa- 

 nions whom he had met in the bay. When I had explain- 

 ed to them as well as it was in my power, the falsehood of 

 such a story, I insisted on the restoration of every thing 

 that had been taken from us, as well as a necessary supply 

 of fish, as the conditions of my departure ; accordingly 

 the things were restored, and a few dried fish along with 

 them. A reconciliation now took place, but our guide or 

 young chief was so much terrified that he would remain 

 no longer with us, and requested us to follow with his 

 father's canoe, or mischief would follow. I determined* 

 however, before my departure, to take an observation, 

 and at noon got a meridian altitude, making this place, 

 which I named Rascal's Village, 52. 23. 43. North 

 latitude. 



On my informing the natives that we wanted something 

 more to eat, they brought us two salmons ; and when we 

 signified that we had no poles to set the canoe against the 

 current, they were furnishing with equal alacrity, so anx- 

 ious were they for our departure. I paid, however, for 

 every thing which we had received, and did not forget the 

 loan of the canoe. 



