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go back afhore. When they found we wanted them 
to go away, they pointed to the fun, (hewing us 
its courfe with their hands, and by their iigns in- 
timated, that as the fun was fo high there was no 
occafion, and that it would be time enough when 
it came to go down. They did not feem inclinable 
to thieve, or take any thing without its being given 
them, for if they took a fancy to any thing they faw, 
they made figns for it ; and if we did not appear in- 
clinable to give it them, they did not offer to take 
it. They feemed to be very intelligent and quick of 
apprehenfion, and pronounced very well and diftin&ly 
many Englifb words after us. We often heard them 
repeat the word Chovoa , but what it meant we could 
not find out ; they made ufe of the word Capatana , 
which I fuppofe is from the Spaniards, for captain. 
They had not any arms with them, fo I cannot fay 
what may be their common weapons j they all had 
a couple of round ftones, like two balls, which are 
llung, one at each end of a cord, which is about one 
fathom and a half long ; and with thefe two balls 
I believe they kill moft of their game. The method 
of ufing them is, by keeping one of the balls in their 
hand, and fwinging the other at the full end of the 
line, round over their heads, by which it acquires 
a greater velocity, and they throw it with a prodigious 
force at a great diflance, and exadtnefs, fo as to itrike 
a very fmall objedl. We faw one of them kill a 
feal from on horfeback in the furf of the fea, on the 
beach ; but in this a&ion, he kept hold of one ball 
in his hand, while he hit the feal with the other ; 
but 1 know not if they make ufe of thefe balls in 
lighting with men. Their horfes are of the Spanifh 
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