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noes, each having two men on board, came to the Ihore, juft 
under the eminence, and the men joined the reft on the top it. 
The pinnace, which had been fent a head to found, now ap- 
proached the place, upon which all the Indians retired farther 
up the hill, except one, who hid himfelf among fome rocks, 
near the landing-place. As the pinnace proceeded along the 
Ihore, molt of the people took the fame route, and kept abreaft 
of her at a diftance : when fne came back, the mailer told us, 
that in a cove, a little within the harbour, fome of them had 
come down to the beach, and invited him to land bymanyfigns 
and words, of which he knew not the meaning ; but that all of 
them were armed with long pikes, and a wooden weapon, 
fliaped fomewhat like a cimeter. The Indians who had not 
followed the boat, feeing the Ihip approach, ufed many threat- 
ening geitures, and brand ifhed their weapons ; particularly 
two, who made a very fmgular appearance, for their faces 
feemed to have been dulled with a white powder, and their 
bodies painted with broad ftreakes of the fame colour, which, 
palling obliquely over their breads and backs, looked not un- 
like the crofs-belts worn by our foldiers ; the fame kind of 
ftreaks were alfo drawn round their legs and thighs, like broad 
garters : each of thefe men held in his hand the weapen that 
had been deferibed to us as like a cimeter, which appeared to 
be about two feet and a half long, and they feemed to talk 
to erch other with great earneftnefs. 
We continued to Hand into the bay, and early in the after- 
noon anchored under the fouth Ihore, about two miles with- 
in the entrance, in fix fathom water, the fouth point bearing 
S. E. and the north point Eall. As we came in we faw, 
on both points of the bay, a few huts, and fevetal of the 
natives, men, women, and children. Under the fouth head 
we daw four fmall- canoes, with each one man on board, who 
were very bulily employed in ftriking filh with a long pike 
or fpear; they ventured almoft into the furf, and were lo 
intent upon what they were doing, that although the lhip 
palfed within a quarter of a mile of them, they fcarcely turned 
their eyes towards her ; poffibly being deafened by the furf, 
and their attention wholly fixed upon their bufinefs or fport, 
they neither faw nor heard her go pall them. 
The place where the Ihip had anchored was abreaft of a fmall 
village, confifting of about fix or eight houfes ; and while we 
were preparing to hoi ft out the boat, we faw an old woman, 
followed by three children, come out of the wood ; Ihe was 
loaded with fire-wood, and each of the children had alfo its 
little burden : when Ihe came to the houfes three more child- 
ren, younger than the others, came out to meet her : fire of- 
ten looked at the Ihip, but exprelfed neither fear nor furprife : 
In a Ihort time Ihe kindled a fire, and the four canoes came in 
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