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along the fhore, we faw fome people riding on horfes 
ever this part of the peninfula or neck of land, to- 
wards the place they faw we were making for with 
the fhips. At the clofe of day, as the wind was con- 
trary, we anchored, within three or four miles of 
the above Cape. All the night long thefe people 
kept making fires on the beach, abreaft of the fhips, 
with a great hollowing noife for us to come on fhore 
to them, which we did early the next morning 
with fome armed boats ; but I believe we had no 
occafion for this (although ellential and proper) pre- 
caution, for thefe people received us in a civil, 
friendly, and pretty regular manner. They all readily 
fate down at fome diftance from us, at our defire, by 
figns to them : and we then went amongft them. Cap- 
tain Wallis, of the Dolphin, gave them beads, rib- 
bons, and fome trifling cutlery, &c. at all which they 
feemed to be well pleafed. They were between iixty 
and feventy at this time, but their numbers kept 
increafing, as fome continually came down to the 
fea fhore ; and before the next morning they were in- 
creafed to feveral hundreds, men, women, and child- 
ren. In the evening, having been obliged to anchor 
again, one of our boats, in which were feveral offi- 
cers, went near the beach, abreaft where the fhips 
lay; thofe people having followed us here, they 
endeavoured by all the friendly invitations they could 
make to entice our men to land ; but as they had 
orders from captain Wallis to the contrary, they did 
not. When they faw that our people would not 
come on fhore to them, they all drew off at a 
diftance, leaving their children by the water-fide. 
This I take to have been done to fhew we had no 
occafion 
