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not by any means be prevailed upon to go along fide, chap. 
XVTII. 
and whenever an attempt was made to haul up a canoe v....-,^ 
by one of the ropes, the men in it immediately difen- 
gaged themfelves from that rope, and took hold of ano- 
ther. At the fame time they appeared extremely defi- 
rous that our people fliould anchor on the coaft, and go 
adiore with them ; and, by way of enticement, held up 
the rind of an orange or lemon, the feathers of tame 
fowls, and other things, fignifying that they might be 
procured on fhore. They prefented alfo to Lieutenant 
Shortland, a fruit, which he conceived to be the bread- 
fruit ; it was about the fize of a fmall cocoa-nut, brown 
on the outfide and white within, and contained a kind' 
of foft pithy fubftance which ftuck between the teeth, and 
was rather troubiefome to chew, befides three or four 
kernels not unlike chefnuts, but very white. The 
leaves of the plantain ferved the Indians to make boxes 
or fmall cafes, of which every man had one to contain . - 
his fmall rings and beads. At noon a point of land 
which runs from the Tv/o Brothers, and was now named 
Cape SatisfadiioHy bore north north- eafl; and the rock ■ 
which had been miftaken for a fliip was called the Eddy- 
Jlone, and bore north by v/eft, diflant four leagues. The 
Eddyftone bears from Gape Satisfav5lion fouth fouth-weifj 
dittant two leagues. As the land from Gape Satisfac- 
tion began to trend northward, Lieutenant Shortland 
agrin entertained hopes of nnding a paiilige.. 
