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peaceable Terms, bringing Cocoa, Ubes-rOots, and roafted 
Hogs, which they bartered for Knives * Beads, and Nails. 
Tilde People were all as expert in the Arts of Swimming 
and Diving, as thofe m Traitors IJland , and as well verfed 
in Cheating and Stealing too, which they never failed to do, 
if an Opportunity were given them. Their Houfes flood 
all along the Strand, which were covered with Leaves at 
the Top, and had a fort of Penthoufe of the fame, to 
carry off the Water *, they were Ten or Twelve Feet high, 
and Twenty-five in Compafs. They were furnifhed with 
nothing but a Bed of dry Herbs, an Angling-rod or two, 
and a great Club. Thefe were all the Ornaments even of 
the Palace, and the King himfelf had no more. The 
Dutch found here good Conveniencies for Watering. The 
24th, they fent Three of the principal Men of the Ship 
to eftablifh a Friend fhip with the Indians , and to be as 
Hoftages amongft: them, having in their room Six Indians 
ol Quality on board, whom they made very welcome 
there, and the Dutch alhore had very great Refpedt paid 
them by theKing : He made them a Prefent of Four Hogs, 
and, if any of his People came but near the Dutch Boat to 
difturb them while they were fetching Water, he would 
drive them away himfelf, or order fome of his Men to do 
it : His Subjects all food in very great Awe of him, 
and were fearful of having any of their Crimes made 
known to him ; for one of them having ftolen a Cutlafs, 
and Complaint being made to one of the King’s Officers, 
the Thief was purfued, and foundly drubbed for the 
Wrong he had done, and, befides, forced to makeRefti- 
tution ; and, more than that, the Officer fignified, that he 
came off very well too ■; for, if the King had known it, he 
would certainly have had his. Head off. Thefe People 
were extremely frightened at the Noife of the Guns, and, 
upon any Difcharge, would fly like fo many Madmen : 
Yet the King having a Defire to hear one of the great 
Guns let off, and being fet under his Canopy, with fome 
of his Courtiers about him, in great Order, upon the going 
off of the Gun, he leaped out of his Seat, and fet up a 
Run into the Woods, with all his Courtiers after him, and 
no Perfuafions of the Dutch could poffibly flop them. 
The 25th and 26th, they went afhore again to barter for 
Hogs, but could get none, the Indians being reduced to 
fome Streights themfelves, having nothing but Cocoas, 
Bananas, Ubes-roots, and a few Hogs, left. Yet theKing 
continued his wonted Refpedt and Kindnefs to them, and 
he, and his Lieutenant, pulled off their Crowns from their 
own Heads, and fet them upon the Heads of Two of the 
Company. Thefe Crowns were made of white, red, 
and green Feathers, which their Parrots and Doves fup- 
ply them with ; the Doves are white upon the Back, and 
black every-where elfe, except the Breaft, and every one 
of the King’s Council has one of thefe fitting by him upon 
a Stick. The 27th and 28th, they got all their Water 
on board, at which time the Mafter and the Merchant 
went afhore with the Trumpets, which proved a very di- 
verting Mufic to the King. Here he told them of his 
Wars with them of the other Ifland, and ffiewed them 
feveral of the Caves and Thickets where they ufed to place 
their Ambufcades, and lay lurking for Advantages againft 
each other : They plainly found, that he was fearful they had 
fome Dcfign upon his Country •, for, to draw them from 
thence, he would fain have engaged them in a War with 
the King of the other Hand ; nay, he offered to hire them 
to be gone, telling them, that, if they would go in Two 
Days, he would give them Ten Hogs, and a good Parcel 
of Cocoas : Yet, notwithftanding his Siifpicions, he made 
them a Vifit on Ship-board, praying when he entered the 
Ship, and praying in every Cabin he came into, as alfo 
he always did when any of the Dutch came afhore to him. 
His Men carried itwithamighty deal of Submiffion to them, 
killing their Feet, and laying them crofs their Necks; 
With all the Tokens of Awe and Fear that they could 
exprefs. The 30th was made a Day of Solemnity, by 
the coming of the King of the other Ifland to vifit the 
King of this : He came with a Train of 300 of his naked 
Indians , that had Bunches of green Herbs ftuck about their 
Middles, of which they prepare their Drink ; and, that 
he might be fore to be welcome, he brought Sixteen 
Hogs along with him. When thefe T wo Princes were 
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within Sight of each other, they' began to bow and ferape, 
and mutter out certain Prayers to themfelves. When 
they met, they both fell down with their Faces flat upon 
the Ground, and, after feveral very ftrange Geftures ufed 
they got up on their Legs, and walked away to the Seats 
provided for them, where, after they had chopt out fome 
more of their Prayers, and bowed very reverently to each 
other again, with much ado they fet down again under the 
King’s Canopy : And now, to make the ftrange King the 
more welcome, a Meffenger was difpatched to the Dutch 
Ship, to get their Drums and Trumpets afhore ; fo the 
Trumpets founded, and a March was beat, to the very 
great Entertainment of the Two Kings: After this they 
prepared for a folemn Banquet ; and, in order to it, be.o-an 
to make ready their Liquor, which they did in this flovenly 
Manner: There came into the Prefence a Company of 
Fellows, with a good Quantity of Cana, (which is the 
Herb of which they make their Drink) each of which 
having crammed in a Mouthful of it, they began to chew 
together ; having chewed it awhile, they put it out of 
their Mouths into a large wooden Trough, and poured 
Water upon it, and fell to ftirring and fqueezmg of it, and, 
having preffed out ail the Goodnefs, they prefented it in 
Cups to the Two Kings. They were fo civil likewife as 
to offer the Dutch fome of it, who were ready to vomit at, 
the Sight of the Preparation. As for the Eating-part of 
the Entertainment, it confifted cf Ubes-roots roafted, and 
Hogs dreffed after a very nice Manner. They had ripped 
up the Bellies, and taken out the Intrails; and then, putting 
hot Stones into their Bellies, and findging off the outfide 
Hair, without any farther Dreffing or Cleaning, they were 
fit for the King’s Table. They prefented Two of thefe 
Llogs to the Dutch , with all the Form and Ceremony 
which they ufe to their Kings, laying them firft upon their 
Heads, and then kneeling, with much Humility, left 
them at their Feet. They gave them, befides, Eleven more 
alive, for which they received a Prefent of Knives, old 
Nails, and Beads, as pleafing to them as far better Things. 
Thefe People were of a dark-yellow Colour, ftrong and 
well-proportioned Bodies, fo tall and big, that the largeft 
amongft the Dutch would have been matched by the leaft 
of them. They wore their Hair, fome curled, fome 
frizzled, fome tied up in Knots, fome had it Handing bolt 
upright, their Heads like Hogs-briftles, a Quarter of 
an Ell high. The King, and fome of his Courtiers, had 
long Locks hanging down below their Hips, bound up 
with a Knot or two; but the Women were all cropped 
clofe, and, befides, very ugly Figures, being fhort and 
ill-fhaped, and their Breafts hanging down to their Bellies 
like Satchels. Both Sexes were naked all to the Pudenda. 
They feemed to be a People wholly void both of Devotion, 
and all worldly Care and Prudence, living juft as the 
other Animals do, upon what the Earth produces, without 
the Solicitations of Art and Induftry : They neither fow 
nor reap, buy nor fell, nor do any thing for a Livelihood, 
but leave all to the Care of Nature, which if it fails at 
any time, they mull ftatve : And they have as little regard 
to the Laws of Decency and Modefty, as to thofe of 
civil Prudence and Policy ; for they will make ufe of their 
Wives-operily in the greateft Aflfembly, nay, and before the 
King too, as much as they reverence him. This Ifland they 
called Horn IJland , from the Name of the Town from 
whence they came ; and the Bay where they anchored. 
Unity Bay , after the Name of the Ship; the Bay lies upon 
the South Side of the Land in a Dock under 14 0 16'. 
18. June 1. they failed from hence, vifiting no Land 
till the 21ft, when they made towards a very low Ifland, that 
lay South South-weft and Weft from them, and in 40° 47'., 
Near it were feveral Sands, that ftretched North-weft from 
off the Land, as alfo Three or Four fmaller Hands, very 
full of Trees. Here a Canoe came up to them, of the fame 
odd Faffiion with thofe before defended, and the People in 
it much of the fame Sort, only blacker, and armed with 
Bows and Arrows, which were the firft they had feed 
amongft the Indians of the South Sea . They told them by 
Signs, that there was more Land, and good Conveniencies 
for a Ship, to be had Weft-ward, where their King dwelt ; 
upon which Information they held a Weftern Courfe again. 
The 2 2d, they failed Weft, and Weft by North, under 
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