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which yet would have been very acceptable at isai. 
some places where we had been, and so we Aug. 20. 
thought they might have been with these people. 
We put them on them, thinking that this finery 
would have brought them to work heartily for 
us ; and our water being filled in small long 
barrels, about six gallons in each, which were 
made purposely to carry water in, we brought 
these our new servants to the wells, and put a 
barrel on each of their shoulders for them to 
carry to the canoe. But all the signs we could 
make were to no purpose, for they stood like 
statues, without motion, but grinned like so 
many monkeys, staring one upon another ; for 
these poor creatures seem not accustomed to 
carry burthens ; and I believe that one of our 
ship-boys of ten years old would carry as much 
as one of them. So we were forced to carry 
our water ourselves, and they very fairly put 
the clothes off again, and laid them down, as if 
clothes were only to work in. I did not perceive 
that they had any great liking to them at first, 
neither did they seem to admire any thing that 
we had. 
“ At another time our canoe being among 
these islands seeking for game, espied a drove 
of these men swimming from one island to an- 
other ; for they have no boats, canoes, or bark- 
logs. They took four of them, and brought them 
