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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1821. one gun, which we fired purposely to scare them. 
Au^. 20. The island was so small that they could not 
hide themselves ; but they were much disordered 
at our landing, especially the women and chil- 
dren ; for we went directly to their camp. The 
lustiest of the women snatching up their infants 
ran away howling, and the little children run 
after squeaking and bawling ; but the men stood 
still. Some of the women, and such people as 
could not go from us, lay still by a fire, making 
a doleful noise, as if we had been coming to 
devour them : but when they saw we did not 
intend to harm them, they were pretty quiet, 
aud the rest that fled from us at our first coming, 
returned again. This their place of dwelling 
was only a fire, with a few boughs before it, 
set up on the side the winds was of. 
“ After we had been here a little while, the 
men began to be familiar, and we clothed some 
of them, designing to have some service of them 
for it ; for we found some wells of water here, 
and intended to carry two or three barrels of it 
aboard. But it being somewhat troublesome to 
carry to the canoes, we thought to have made 
these men to have carried it for us, and therefore 
we gave them some old clothes ; to one an old 
pair of breeches, to another a ragged shirt, to the 
third a jacket that was scarce worth owning ; 
