9 6 COOK ’s VOYAGE. 
Tides the leak, confiderable damage had been done to the bot- 
tom ; great part of the lheathing was gone from under the lar- 
board bow ; a confiderable part of tfie falfe keel was alfo want- 
ing, and thefe indeed we had ieen fwim away in fragments 
from the vefiel, while file lay beating againft the rock : the re- 
mainder of it was i To fhattered a condition that it had bet- 
ter have been gone, and the fore foot and mai keel were alfo 
damaged, but not fo as to produce any immediate danger : 
what damage Ihe might have received abaft could not yet be 
exactly known ; but we had reafon to think it was not much, 
as but little water made its way into her bo torn, while the 
tide kept below the leak, which has already been deferibed. 
By nine o’clock in the morning : he carpenters got to work 
upon her, while the fmiths were bui'y in making bolts and 
nails. In the mean time, fame of the people were fenton the 
other fide of the water to ihoot pigeons for the Tick, who at 
their ret rn reported that they had feen an animal as large as 
a greyhound, of a flender make, a moufe colour, and ex- 
tremely fwilt ; they difeovered alio many Indian houfes, and 
a fine ifream of freih water. 
The next morning I fent a boat to haul the feine ; but at 
noon it returned with only three filh, and yet we faw them in 
plenty lea ing about the harbour. This day the carpenter 
fini ihei the repairs that were neceffary on the ftarboard fide ; 
and at nine o’clock in the evening, we heeled the Ihip the odier 
way, and hauled her off about two feet for fear of Helping. 
This day almofi: every body had feen the animal which the 
pigeon-fhooters had brought an account of the day before; 
and one of the feamen, who had been rambling in the woods, 
told us at his return, that he verily believed he had feen the 
devil : we naturally enquired in what iorm he had appeared, 
and his anfwer was in fo Angular ftiie, that I fiiali let down 
his own words ; “ He was (fays John) as large as a one gal- 
“ Ion keg, and very like it ; he had horns and wings, yet he 
“ crept fo fiowly through the grafs, that if I had not been 
il afeardl might- have touched him.” r i his formidable appa- 
rition we afterwards difeovered to have jj^en a batt; and the 
•bates here mufi be acknowledged to have’ a frightful appear- 
an :e, for they are nearly black, and full as large as a part- 
ridge ; they have indeed no horns, but the fancy of a man 
who thought he faw the devil might eafily fupply that defedt. 
Early on the z pth the carpenters began to repair the Sheath- 
ing under the larboard bow. where we found two planks cut 
about half through ; and in the mean time I fent a party of men, 
under the direddi m of Mr. Gore, in fearch of refreih meats for 
the lick : this party returned about noon with a few palm 
cabbages, and a baoch or two of wild plantains; the plan- 
tains wore the fmalied. I had ever feen, and the pulp, though 
it 
