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extarordinary fize; however we continued toftand on, 
and fhould have palled without taking the leaft farther 
notice of them, could we have proceeded, but our 
breeze dying away, and the tide making againft us, we 
Were obliged to anchor, when the commodore 
ordered his boat of twelve oars and another of fix to 
be hoifled out, manned and armed. In the firft went 
the commodore, in the other Mr. Cummings our firft 
lieutenant and myfeif. At our di d leaving the fhip, 
their number did not exceed forty j but as we ap- 
proached the fhore, we perceived them pouring down 
from all quarters, fome galloping, others running, all 
making ufe of their utmod expedition. They col- 
lected themfelves in a body, juft at the place we 
deered for. When we had got. within twelve or 
fourteen yards of the beach, we found it a difagreeable 
flat diore with very large dones, which we appre- 
hended would injure the boats ; fo looked at two or 
three different places, to dnd the mod convenient for 
landing. They fuppofed we deferred coming on fhore, 
through apprehenfions of danger from them, upon 
which they all threw open the fkins which were over 
their Ihoulders, which was the only cloathing they 
had, and confequently the only thing they could fecret 
any kind of arms with, and many of them laid down 
clofe to the water’s edge. The commodore 
made a motion for them to go a little way from the 
water, that we might have room to land, which they 
immediately complied with, and withdrew thirty or 
forty yards; we then landed, and formed each man 
with his mufquet, in cafe any violence fhould be 
offered. As foon as we were formed, the commodore 
went from us to them, then at about twenty yards 
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