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reCly for it, and the boat following, foon came on board. 
The Lieutenant told u?, that he had feen fome of the princi- 
pal people, who were dreffed in fine linen, and had chains of 
gold round their necks : he faid, that he had not been able 
to trade, becaufe the owner of the cocoa-nuts was abfent, but 
that about two dozen had been lent to the boat as a pre'fent, 
and that fome linen had been accepted in return. The people, 
to give him the information that he wanted, drew a map upen 
the fand, in which they made a rude reprefentation of a har- 
bour to leeward, and a town near it : they alfo gave him to 
nnderftand, that fheep, hogs, fowls, and fruit might there be 
procured in great plenty. Some of them frequently pronoun- 
ced the word Portuguefe, and faid fomething of Larntuca,. 
upon the ifland of Ende : from this circumftnnce, we conjec- 
tured that there were Portuguefe fomewhere upon the ifland, 
and a Portuguefe who was in our boat, attempted to converfe 
with the Ind^ns in that language, but foon found that they 
knew only a word or two of it by rote : one of them however, 
when they were giving our people tounderftand that there was. 
a town near the harbour to which they had directed us, inti- 
mated, that as a token of going right, we fhould fee fome- 
W'hat, which he exprefled by eroding his fingers, and the Por- 
thguefe inftantly conceived that he meant to exprefs a crofs. 
Juft as our people were putting off, the horfeman in the Eu- 
ropean drefs came up, but the officer not having his commif- 
fion about him, thought it beft to decline a conference. 
At feven o’clock in the evening, we came to an anchor in 
the bay to which we had been direCed, at about the diftance 
of a mile front the fltore, in thirty-eight fatnom water, with a 
clear fandy bottom. The north point of the bay bore N. 30 
E. diftant two miles and an half, and the fouth point, or weft 
end of the iftand, bore S. 63 W. Juft as we got round" the 
north point, and entered the bay, we difeovered a large In- 
dian town or village, upon which we ftoodon, hoifting a jack 
on the fore top-maft head : foon after, to our great furprize, 
Dutch colours were hoillci in the town, and 3 guns fired ; we 
flood on, however, till we had foundings, and then anchored. 
As foon as it was light in the morning, we faw rhe fame 
colours hoifted upon the beach, abreaft of the fhip ; fuppefing 
therefore that the Dutch had a fettlement here, 1 fent Lieuten- 
ant Gore afhorc, to wait upon the Governor, or the chief 
perfon reftding upon therfpot, and acquaint him who vve were, 
and for what purpofe we had touched upon thecoaft. As foon 
as he came afhore, he was received by a guard of between 
twenty and thirty Indians, armed with mufkets, who con- 
duced him to the town, where the colours had been hoifted 
the night before, carrying with them thofe that had been 
hoifted upon the beach, and marching without any military re- 
gularity. As foon as he arrived, Jie was introduced to the 
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